Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz, M.D. is a Senior Fellow for the Tackling Drug Addiction initiative at OSI-Baltimore. Schwartz, a psychiatrist with a subspecialty in addiction treatment, is also the Medical Director of Friends Research Institute. From 1989 to 2000, he served on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In that capacity, he was the director of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (1996-2000) where he was responsible for the university's drug treatment network, its addiction training for medical students and psychiatric residents, and the Department of Psychiatry's drug abuse research program. From 1988-1989 he was a fellow in addiction psychiatry at Columbia University School of Medicine.

Schwartz has over 25 scientific publications on addictions treatment and research. He is an investigator in several drug abuse research studies and serves on the board of Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems.