Background
Schwartz, Henry Gerard was born on March 11, 1909 in New York City. Son of Nathan Theodore and Marie (Zagat) Schwartz.
Schwartz, Henry Gerard was born on March 11, 1909 in New York City. Son of Nathan Theodore and Marie (Zagat) Schwartz.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1928; Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1932.
Denison fellow with, Professor O. Foerster, Breslau, Germany, 1931;
surgical house officer, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1932-1933;
National Research Council fellow, Harvard Medical School, 1933-1935;
instructor anatomy, Harvard Medical School, 1935-1936;
fellow neurological surgery, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, 1936-1937;
instructor, assistant professor, associate professor neurological surgery, Washington University Medical School, 1937-1946;
professor, Washington University Medical School, 1946-1988;
August Busch professor emeritus, Washington University Medical School, since 1988;
acting surgeon-in-chief, Barnes and Allied hospitals, 1965-1967;
chief neurosurgeon, Barnes, St. Louis Children's hospitals, 1946-1974. Consultant neurosurgeon St. Louis City, Jewish, Los Alamos (New Mexico) hospitals. Consultant to surgeon general United States Public Health Service. to surgeon general United States Army.
Member subcom.neurosurgery National Research Council. Delegate World Federation Neurosurgery.
Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1945. Fellow American College of Surgeons (advisory council on neurosurgery 1950, 60, vice president 1972-1973). Member Society Neurological Surgeons (president 1968-1969), American Academy Neurological Surgery (president 1951-1952), Harvey Cushing Society (president 1967-1968), American Neurological Association (honorary), Association Research Nervous and Mental Disease, Central Neuropsychiat.
Association American, Association Anatomists, Southern Neurosurg. Society (president 1953-1954), Society Medical Consultant to Armed Forces, American Surgical Association (vice president 1975-1976), Society de Neuro-Chirurgie de Langue Francaise, Excelsior Surgical Society, Johns Hopkins Society Scholars, Society International de Chirugie (Alpha Omega Alpha leader American medicine 1978), World Federation Neurosurg. Societies (honorary president), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Edith Courtenay Robinson, September 13, 1934. Children: Henry G., Michael R., Richard H.