Dr Jean-Claude Schwartz

Georgia, USA

Dr Schwartz is a recognised national leader in the field of oncoplastic breast surgery.  After graduating with MD and PhD degrees, he completed his general surgery training at Emory University followed by a breast surgical oncology fellowship at Yale University. After 4 years in private practice, he spent a year studying advanced oncoplastic techniques in New Zealand, Milan, Brazil, Paris and London with international leaders in oncoplastic surgery. 

Dr Schwartz has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in the last several years in leading surgical journals in the area of breast cancer surgery and reconstruction.  He has been invited to write book chapters in the area of oncoplastic surgery. He regularly lectures and teaches at national conferences on breast cancer surgery and reconstruction techniques.  He has developed and described numerous surgical techniques in reconstructive surgery that have benefited his patients and others all over the world. Visiting surgeons from the United States and abroad are routinely present in his operating room to observe his surgeries and the several techniques that he has innovated.  


Education & Training:

European Institute of Oncology, Fellowship in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery 2014, Milan, Italy

London Plastic Surgeons, Mini fellowship in Aesthetic Breast Surgery 2014

Nossa Senhora das Gracas, Barretos Hospital, Fellowship in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery, 2014, Curitiba and Barretos, Brazil

Paris Breast Center, Fellowship in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery — 2014

Saint Mark’s Breast Center, Auckland, New Zealand, Fellowship in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery 2013

Yale University, Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship, 2009

Emory University Hospital, General Surgery Residency 2008

Emory University Hospital, Surgical Internship 2004

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, MD, PhD 2003

Cornell University, Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry 1993

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