Peter H. Schwartz, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Professor of Philosophy, School of Liberal Arts

Professor of Bioethics

Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics

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Indianapolis, IN 46202-3011
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Bio

Dr. Schwartz is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Bioethics at IU School of Medicine. He is Professor of Philosophy at the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI). He directs the Bioethics and Participant Advocacy Program of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). Dr. Schwartz practices adult outpatient medicine in the Eskenazi Health System.

Dr. Schwartz received his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.D. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.

Dr. Schwartz has conducted research and written on ethical issues in many areas including informed consent, risk communication, electronic health information, biobank governance, pharmacogenomics, and ideas of health, disease, and risk. He leads research projects on patient decision-making and risk communication in preventive and precision healthcare, and has received funding from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) American Cancer Society, and National Instittues of Health. He is currently the co-principal investigator of a project funded by PCORI to send patients an informational video ("decision aid") about colorectal cancer sceening and train providers to increase uptake of screening and improve shared decision making in this area.

Key Publications

Recent Publications:

Doyle TA, Schmidt KK, Halverson CME, Olivera J, Garcia A, Shugg TA, Skaar TC, Schwartz PH. Patient Understanding of Pharmacogenomic Test Results in Clinical Care. Patient Education and Counseling. 2023.
Schwartz PH, Sachs G. Rethinking Decision Quality: Measurement, Meaning, and Bioethics. Hastings Center Report. 2022.
Schwartz PH. The Framing Dilemma: Quantitative Information, Shared Decision Making, and Nudging. Medical Decision Making. 2022.

Other Selected Publications:

Schwartz PH, O’Doherty KC, Bentley C, Schmidt KK, Burgess MM. Layperson Views About the Design and Evaluation of Decision Aids about Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Public Deliberation. Medical Decision Making. 2021.
Schwartz PH, Imperiale TF, Perkins SM, Schmidt KK, Althouse S, Rawl SM. Impact of Including Quantitative Information in a Decision Aid for Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Patient Education and Counseling. 2019.

For additional publications, categorized by subject, see: https://bioethics.iu.edu/people/peter-schwartz.html

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Year	Degree	Institution
1999	MD	University of Pennsylvania
1999	PhD	University of Pennsylvania
1993	MA	University of Pennsylvania
1987	BA	Harvard College

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