Meet the Chair
Roderich Schwarz, MD, PhD, Professor, is Chair of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UT Southwestern. A native of Germany, he completed his medical training at the Medical School in Hannover, Germany, in 1984, and presented his dissertation with a thesis in experimental hepatopathology in 1985. Until 1989, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and subsequently underwent residency training in General Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1994, he started a two-year fellowship training in Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he received specialty training for gastrointestinal cancer.
Dr. Schwarz has a special interest in upper gastrointestinal malignancies, including pancreatic, hepatobiliary, and gastric cancer. He has presented numerous talks at national and international meetings and has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. His research interests focus on experimental combination therapy for pancreatic and gastric cancer, novel locoregional therapies for liver and bile duct lesions, and minimizing morbidity after major visceral resections. Among Dr. Schwarz’s awards is the UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Residents’ Theodor Kocher Teaching Award.