Gregory G. Schwartz MD, PhD

Gregory G. Schwartz, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiology) at the University of Colorado. He is also Chief of Cardiology at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado (USA).

Dr. Schwartz graduated from Brown University in Providence, RI with a degree in Biomedical Engineering, and then received PhD and MD degrees from Duke University in Durham, NC. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado and fellowship in Cardiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he served on the faculty as Assistant and Associate Professor before assuming his present position.

Dr. Schwartz’ clinical research has focused on trials of lipid and metabolic interventions in coronary heart disease, including the placebo-controlled cardiovascular outcomes trials that established the efficacy of intensive statin treatment (MIRACL, 2001) and PCSK9 inhibition (ODYSSEY OUTCOMES, 2018) after acute coronary syndrome. Among current activities, Dr. Schwartz is Chair of the VA Cooperative Study “VA-IMPACT” testing the cardiovascular efficacy of metformin in pre-diabetes. In basic research, Dr. Schwartz directs a swine physiology laboratory that investigates translational questions in myocardial energy metabolism and ischemic protection.