Website www.drerika.com Role Physician | Name Erika Schwartz | |
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Institutions Westchester County Medical Center, Montefiore Medical Center Education SUNY Downstate Medical Center Fields Internal medicine, Hormone therapy, Preventive healthcare Books The Hormone Solution, The 30‑Day Natural H, The Teen Weight‑Loss Solution, Don't Let Your Doctor Kil, Natural Energy: From Tire | ||
Dr erika schwartz s new book urges people to question doctors
Erika Schwartz is an author and physician that works to increase access of natural hormones. Schwartz founded the Natural Hormone Pharmacy and co-founded the Bioidentical Hormone Initiative.
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- Dr erika schwartz s new book urges people to question doctors
- Dr erika schwartz a face of thyroid disease
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Dr erika schwartz a face of thyroid disease
Early life and education
Schwartz was born in Bucharest, Romania. Her family moved to Rome, where Schwartz graduated from high school, and then to New York City. She received her bachelor's degree with honors from New York University's Washington Square College of Arts and Sciences.
Schwartz graduated cum laude from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine earning her MD degree in 1975. She completed an internship and residency at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, as well as a fellowship in critical care and trauma medicine.
Career
Schwartz became the medical director of the department of emergency medicine at Westchester County Medical Center (WCMC) in Valhalla, New York. At the time, she was the first woman and youngest doctor to hold this position. She obtained accreditation for Westchester County Medical Center as a tertiary trauma center and brought helicopter and ambulance services to the hospital which advanced emergency response.
Schwartz established a private practice in internal medicine and primary care in 1983. Her practice became the largest internal medicine practice in Westchester County, New York. In 1985, she co-founded Ardsley Radiology and became general partner. Ardsley Radiology was the first location to operate a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine in Westchester County. In 1992, she founded Chappaqua Medical, a multi-specialty medical group, which she sold to Montefiore Hospital. In 1994, she joined Montefiore Medical Center where she became director of special projects and produced a weekly educational television show.
In the early 2000s, Schwartz founded the Natural Hormone Pharmacy, the first compounding pharmacy in the United States which works to standardize and commercialize natural hormones. In 2007, Schwartz co-founded the Bioidentical Hormone Initiative, a not for profit organization dedicated to training physicians how to treat age-related endocrine dysfunction. She also founded Evolved Science, a membership-based preventive medical practice.
Based on her research in hormone therapy, initially Schwartz created a standardized natural estradiol and micronized progesterone cream as an alternative to the hormone replacement treatments dispensed in pharmacies.