Andrea Wershof Schwartz, MD, MPH
Andrea Wershof Schwartz, MD, MPH, of the Department of Medicine, was presented with the 2018 Outstanding Junior Clinician Educator of the Year Award from the American Geriatric Society.
An alumna of the BWH/HVMA Internal Medicine residency program, Schwartz is a geriatrician and clinician educator with the VA Boston Healthcare System and the New England GRECC (Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center), where she teaches BWH residents, Harvard Medical School students and Harvard Geriatrics fellows, with a goal of improving care of older adults.
An Harvard Medical School (HMS) Academy Medical Education Fellow in 2017-2018, Schwartz’s fellowship project is integration of a longitudinal geriatrics curriculum into the HMS Pathways curriculum. As associate fellowship director for Medical Education for the Harvard Multicampus Geriatrics Fellowship Program, Schwartz introduced an innovative medical education curriculum into the geriatrics fellowship. She is a sought-after mentor and teacher for BWH geriatric medicine fellows and internal medicine residents, and she leads a clinical practicum for the VA’s national Geriatrics Scholars Program. Schwartz is on the leadership of the HMS Arts and Humanities Initiative, and has published her original poetry and research in a number of leading journals.
The American Geriatrics Society is a nationwide, not-for-profit society of geriatrics health care professionals dedicated to improving the health, independence and quality of life of older people. The American Geriatrics Society provides leadership to health care professionals, policymakers and the public by implementing and advocating for programs in patient care, research, professional and public education, and public policy.
