Lisa Schwartz

Dr. Lisa Schwartz is an education professional with more than 25 years of experience in the higher education and healthcare industries conducting program, curriculum, student, and faculty development, marketing, grant writing, and quantitative and qualitative research. Her research interests focus on the career development of health professionals. She is the 2019 recipient of the American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) Research Award and the 2022 Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC). She teaches genetics, ethics, leadership, and curriculum development across multiple Health Sciences departments and serves as the dissertation chair of several students in the SMHS PhD in Translational Health Sciences Program. She is an active member of multiple committees focused on education, training, and professional development within the university and nationally.  

Since joining the SMHS faculty om 2010, she has served in a number of leadership roles. In Summer 2019 she launched the BLS Pre-health Professions Advising Service (BLS-PPAS) for current students and alumni pursuing further education in health professional program, including medicine, physician assistant, and pharmacy. She was the founding director of the Post-baccalaureate Pre-medicine Certificate Program and as the Associate Director of the Research Education, Training and Career Development (RETCD) component of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN), an NIH-funded, $20 million collaborative initiative between The George Washington University and Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC).  
 
Prior to coming to GW, Dr. Schwartz was the director of the Master’s in Genetic Counseling (MGC) Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She was also the co-principal investigator on two HRSA-funded grants, Interdisciplinary Healthcare Training and Delivery and Genetic Interdisciplinary Faculty Training Program (GIFT) of Duke University. Dr. Schwartz is certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC).

Research

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