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 Adbominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Repair - Endovascular, Adbominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Repair - Open, Amputation, Angioplasty With Stent Placement, Carotid Endartecotomy, Carotid Stenting, Peripheral Artery Bypass, Thoracic Aortic Aneursym - Endovascular, Thoracic Aortic Aneursym - Open, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Treatment, and Varicose Vein Treatment.

Research Interests

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

Recent Publications

• The Role of Surgeon Error in Withdrawal of Postoperative Life Support.
  Schwarze ML, Redmann AJ, Brasel KJ, Alexander GC
  Annals of surgery 2012 May 11.
  [PubMed ID: 22584696]
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• Risk as feelings in the effect of patient outcomes on physicians' future treatment decisions: A randomized trial and manipulation validation.
  Hemmerich JA, Elstein AS, Schwarze ML, Moliski EG, Dale W
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2012 Apr 20.
  [PubMed ID: 22571890]
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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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