Education

• MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston , MA, 1995
• Residency in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 1996-2002
• Research Fellowship, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Boston, MA, 1998-2000
• Fellowship in Vascular Surgery, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL, 2002-2004
• Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL, 2003-2004

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Schwarze specializes in vascular and endovascular surgery. She is board certified in both general surgery and vascular surgery.

Dr. Schwarze provides a wide range of services including Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Repair - Endovascular, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Repair - Open, Amputation, Angioplasty With Stent Placement, Carotid Endartecotomy, Carotid Stenting, Extended Efforts in Limb Salvage, Peripheral Artery Bypass, and Varicose Vein Treatment.

Research Interests

Dr. Schwarze’s research interests include clinical medical ethics and health services research.

Recent Publications

• Surgeons expect patients to buy-in to postoperative life support preoperatively: results of a national survey.
  Schwarze ML, Redmann AJ, Alexander GC, Brasel KJ
  Crit. Care Med. 2013 Jan; 41(1):1-8.
  [PubMed ID: 23222269, PMC ID: 3624612]
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• Surgeon-reported conflict with intensivists about postoperative goals of care.
  Paul Olson TJ, Brasel KJ, Redmann AJ, Alexander GC, Schwarze ML
  JAMA Surg 2013 Jan; 148(1):29-35.
  [PubMed ID: 23324837, PMC ID: 3624604]
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• The role of surgeon error in withdrawal of postoperative life support.
  Schwarze ML, Redmann AJ, Brasel KJ, Alexander GC
  Ann. Surg. 2012 Jul; 256(1):10-5.
  [PubMed ID: 22584696, PMC ID: 3621715]
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• Use of advance directives for high-risk operations: a national survey of surgeons.
  Redmann AJ, Brasel KJ, Alexander CG, Schwarze ML
  Ann. Surg. 2012 Mar; 255(3):418-23.
  [PubMed ID: 22167006]
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• Surrogate decision making: a woman in fulminant liver failure after an acetaminophen overdose.
  O'Connor ES, Schwarze ML, Kodner IJ, Keune JD
  Surgery 2011 Nov; 150(5):1006-10.
  [PubMed ID: 22132422]
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• Ethical management of conflict of interest: proposed standards for academic surgical societies.
  Minter RM, Angelos P, Coimbra R, Dale P, de Vera ME, Hardacre J, Hawkins W, Kirkwood K, Matthews JB, McLoughlin J, Peralta E, Schmidt M, Zhou W, Schwarze ML
  J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2011 Nov; 213(5):677-82.
  [PubMed ID: 21880513]
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• Syndromes associated with the deep veins: phlegmasia cerulea dolens, May-Thurner syndrome, and nutcracker syndrome.
  Suwanabol PA, Tefera G, Schwarze ML
  Perspect Vasc Surg Endovasc Ther 2010 Dec; 22(4):223-30.
  [PubMed ID: 21411461]
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• Physician attitudes regarding advance directives for high-risk surgical patients: a qualitative analysis.
  Bradley CT, Brasel KJ, Schwarze ML
  Surgery 2010 Aug; 148(2):209-16.
  [PubMed ID: 20580048]
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• Surgical "buy-in": the contractual relationship between surgeons and patients that influences decisions regarding life-supporting therapy.
  Schwarze ML, Bradley CT, Brasel KJ
  Crit. Care Med. 2010 Mar; 38(3):843-8.
  [PubMed ID: 20048678, PMC ID: 3042894]
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• Conflict of interest with industry and the challenges for surgical education.
  Schwarze ML
  J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2009 Dec; 209(6):766-8.
  [PubMed ID: 19959047]
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