Research Staff

Janice Schwartz, M.D.

Dr. Janice Schwartz is a leader in the area of cardiovascular aging, drug metabolism, and in the effects of gender on drug metabolism and responses. She graduated from Tulane Medical School, is a board-certified internal medicine specialist, cardiologist, and has added qualifications in geriatric medicine. She has been on the faculty of Stanford Medical School, Baylor College of Medicine, UCSF Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, and Northwestern University Medical School. She is currently clinical professor of Medicine, Divisions of Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Schwartz’s research career has spanned laboratory and clinical research with over 100 publications including scientific articles, reviews, and book chapters. She has been named one of the best doctors in the U.S. for geriatric medicine. She belongs to numerous professional societies, including the American College of Cardiology, American Geriatrics Society, American Heart Association, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (past Vice President), and the Society of Geriatric Cardiology (past President). She has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and has been on the National Institutes of Health research review panels for over 12 years.

Jay Luxenberg, M.D.

Dr. Jay Luxenberg is a board-certified internal medicine specialist with a Certificate of Special Competence in geriatric medicine. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he participates in the training of medical students, internal medicine physicians, and physicians training to be geriatricians. He trained at San Francisco’s Mount Zion Hospital, and did a Medical Staff Fellowship at the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. His research involved Alzheimer’s disease and changes in the brain associated with healthy aging.

Dr. Luxenberg is the author of many medical publications, and serves as the website editor for the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA).

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