EDUCATION

7/1980-1981     Medical training at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria
10/1980-7/1987  Medical training at the Faculty of Medicine, Philipps-University,Marburg,Germany
8/1986-10/1986  Training in Surgery  at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ife University,Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
6/1987-4/1990   Residency in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Community Hospital,Eschwege, Germany
1987            Doctoral degree/thesis, Dr. med. univ./PhD, University of Vienna, Austria
1989            Doctoral degree/thesis, Dr. med./MD, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
4/1990-6/1991   Research fellowship (German Heart Foundation) at the Max-Planck-Institute (Prof. Dr. W Schaper), Bad Nauheim, Germany
7/1991-10/1996  Fellowship in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Med. Klinik I,  (Prof. Dr. P Hanrath), RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Germany
10/1996-3/1998  Research Fellowship at the Heart Institute (RA Kloner, MD, PhD, Program Director) Good Samaritan Hospital & Division of Cardiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Professional Work History

1/1996-10/2000 Faculty, Consultant Cardiologist, Interventional Cardiologist, Clinical Supervisor (Oberarzt), Director of Heart Failure & Transplant Program, Director of Cardiophysiology Research, Interim Supervisor for the Coronary Care Units/Intensive Care Units at the Medical Clinic I, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Germany

1/1998-2/2003 Faculty position, Associate Professor of Medicine, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Germany  

6/1999        Thesis/Habilitation and Venia legendi, School of Medicine, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

10/2000-2/2003   Head & Chairman of the Department of Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist, Director of the ICUs, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Professor of Medicine, Dr. S. Fakeeh Hospital, Harvard Medical International, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2/2003-4/2006 Faculty, Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

4/2006  Faculty, Professor of Medicine, ULCA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

Publications（2008-2009）:
2008
86. Kapur V, Chien CV, Fuess JE, Schwarz ER. The relationship between erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. Part II: The role of PDE-5 inhibition in sexual dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. Rev Cardiovasc Med 2008;9:187-95.
87. Sulemanjee N, Merla A, Lick S, Aunon S, Taylor M, Manson M, Czer L, Schwarz ER. The First Year Post Heart Transplantation: Use of Immunosuppressive Drugs and Early Complications. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther 2008 2008;13:13-31.
88. Schwarz ER, Tehrani F. Sex and the Heart: More to Know About Sexual Dysfunction in Patients with Heart Failure. Southern Medical Journal 2008.
89. Wertman BM, Gura V, Schwarz ER. Ultrafiltration for the management of acute decompensated heart failure. J Card Fail 2008;14:754-9.
90. Goland S, Czer LS, Coleman B, De Robertis MA, Mirocha J, Zivari K, Schwarz ER, Kass RM, Trento A. Induction therapy with thymoglobulin after heart transplantation: impact of therapy duration on lymphocyte depletion and recovery, rejection, and cytomegalovirus infection rates. J Heart Lung Transplant 2008;27:1115-21.
91. Uretsky BF, Birnbaum Y, Osman A, Gupta R, Paniagua O, Chamoun A, Pohwani A, Lui C, Lev E, McGehee T, Kumar D, Akhtar A, Anzuini A, Schwarz ER, Wang FW. Distal myocardial protection with intracoronary beta blocker when added to a Gp IIb/IIIa platelet receptor blocker during percutaneous coronary intervention improves clinical outcome. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008;72:488-97.
92. Schwarz ER, Shen BJ. Sexual dysfunction in cardiac rehabilitation patients is much more than simply an epiphenomenon and needs more study. Rev Esp Cardiol. 2008;61:907-10.
93. Simsir SA, Fontana GP, Czer LS, Schwarz ER. Heart allograft transplanted twice. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:918-9. 2009
94. Schwarz ER. Gupta R, vom Dahl J, Minartz J, Klues HG, Uretsky BF. Myocardial bridging in absence of coronary artery disease: proposal of a new classification based on clinical-angiographic data and long-term follow-up. Cardiology. 2009;112:13-21.

Book Chapters

1. Schwarz ER. The course of pepsin in the stomach after proximal selective vagotomy. [Der Verlauf des Pepsinspiegels im Magensaft nach selektiv proximaler Vagotomie]. Disserationsschrift Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany, 1989.

2. Schaper J, Schwarz ER, Elsasser A. The ultrastructure of hibernating myocardium. in: Stunning and hibernation in the heart, eds. R Ferrari & P Harris, 72-74, Canal Press, Venice, 1993.

3. Schwarz ER, Montino H, Fleischhauer J. Das Schweineherz als ein geeignetes Modell zur Untersuchung von Myokardinfarkt, ventrikul?rer Kontraktilit?t und Myokardprotektion. [The pig heart as a suitable model for studying myocardial infarction, contractility, and myocardial protection]. In: Versuchstiere- Qualit?tssicherung in Humanmedizin und biologischer Forschung [Experimental animals in medicine and research], editor W Küpper, Universit?tsdruckerei FEM & GV SOLAS, FU Berlin 24-36; 1997.

4. Schwarz ER, Hammerman H, Kloner RA. Q-wave myocardial infarction. In: Current Practice in Medicine, 2nd edition, Roger C. Bone, Series Editor, Joseph S. Alpert, Section Editor. Current Medicine, Philadelphia. 1998.

5. Schwarz ER, Hammerman H, Kloner RA. Q-wave myocardial infarction. In: Current Practice in Medicine, 3rd edition, Roger C. Bone, Series Editor, Joseph S. Alpert, Section Editor. Current Medicine, Philadelphia. 1999.

6. Schwarz ER, Hammerman H, Kloner RA. Q-wave myocardial infarction. In: Cardiology for the Primary Care Physician, 3rd edition, J. S. Alpert, editor, Current Science Group, Philadelphia. 1999.

7. Schwarz ER. Koronarangiographische Befunde und intravaskulaere Haemodynamik by symptomatischen Patienten mit koronaren Muskelbruecken: eine Untersuchung zur klinischen und funktionellen Bedeutung und Therapie dieser haeufigsten Koronaranomalie. [Coronary angiographic findings and intravascular hemodynamics in symptomatic patients with myocardial bridging – a study to assess functional and clinical relevance of the most common coronary anomaly]. Habilitationsschrift RWTH Universitaetsklinikum Aachen, Germany, 1999.

8. Schwarz ER, Skobel EC. Q-wave myocardial infarction. In: Current Practice of Medicine and Cardiology for thr Primary Care Physician, GSG Philadelphia, Current Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, 2001.

9. Schwarz ER, Gupta R. Non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. In: Cardiology for the Primary Care Physician, 4th edition, Current Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

10. IsHak WW, Schwarz ER. Guidebook of Sexual Medicine, 2008 (in press).

11. Chien C, Schwarz ER. Erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. In: Cardiology for the boards, 2008 (in press)
   
Books

1. Schwarz ER. Sex and the Heart. Friedel & Ernst Academic Publishing, Los Angeles, CA & Haldorf, Germany, 2006 (http://sexandtheheart.com).