Profile_Daniel_Schwarz

Daniel Schwarz, MD, ABAM, FASAM CLIA High Complexity Toxicologist Principle/Director The Center for Pain Recovery, MI Chief Medical Officer Full Circle to Completion, OH

About the Speaker:

Dr. Schwarz obtained his MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and then completed his Surgery Residency at the University of Toledo; Board Certified in 1994. He was a Level-1 Trauma Surgeon/Clinical Instructor of Surgery at the University of Toledo, while a research fellow at the University of Michigan in Plastic Surgery. He was awarded several grants and awards, while mentoring students and physicians in the Craniofacial Research Laboratory.

Recognizing increased opioid use in surgical and pain management patients, he pursued his interests in Addiction Medicine, completing a fellowship at St. John's Brighton Hospital; Board Certified in 2010. He initiated the first prospective study correlating addiction after gastric bypass surgery, published in 2010. He is a CLIA certified, high-complexity toxicologist. Recent peer reviewed publications include Toxicology in Pain Management, Toxicology in Addiction Medicine and Precision Medicine in Toxicology: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, Dec 2016.

His practice covers addiction/behavioral medicine, specializing in co-occurring disorders and complex chronic pain. He currently trains physicians and allied health professionals for ASAM's buprenorphine waiver course.