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Robert Schwartzman, M.D.

Chair

  • Practice: Drexel Neurology
  • Specialty:Neurology, Chronic Pain Management
  • Education: M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Patient Care

Dr. Robert Schwartzman is nationally and internationally known for his work in chronic regional pain syndrome/reflex sympathetic dystrophy (CRPS/RSD). He established the first RSDS clinic in the United States and currently has several clinical trials underway working with doctors here and abroad in developing revolutionary treatment options for this disease. He has received a grant from the Tilly Family Foundation working to better understand RSD, its cause, progression and mechanisms.

He is board certified in internal medicine, neurology and psychiatry. Dr. Schwartzman sees patients in Center City Philadelphia.

2011 Philadelphia Magazine Top Doctor / 2011-2012 Best Doctors Awards and Honors:

  • Named "Top Doctor" by Philadelphia Magazine (2010, 2011)
  • Listed in "Best Doctors" (2009-2010, 2011-2012)
  • Humanitarian Award,  the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Coalition of New England and the National RSD Society

Memberships:

  • Founding member, Scientific Advisory Board for the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association of America
Teaching

Dr. Robert J. Schwartzman is professor and chairman of the Department of Neurology at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Schwartzman came to the College of Medicine in 1995 from Thomas Jefferson University, where he chaired the Department of Neurology. He was an associate professor of neurology at the University of Miami from 1971 through 1978, and then professor of neurology, chief of the Division of Neurology and program director at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, from 1978 to 1982. He was appointed chairman of the Department of Neurology at Jefferson University in 1982, where he served until 1995 when he became chairman of the Department of Neurology at MCP Hahnemann University, which is now Drexel University College of Medicine. Schwartzman has trained over 240 residents during his career.

Thirty have become professors of neurology and six have gone on to become chairmen of neurology departments.

Recent Publications:

Efficacy of five day continuous lidocaine infusion for the treatment of refractory complex regional pain syndrome
Schwartzman RJ, Patel M, Grothusen JR, Alexander GM
Pain Med 2009 10(2)::401-412

Spinal cord histopathology alterations in a patient with longstanding CRPS
DelValle L, Schwartzman RJ, Alexander G
Brain Behav Immun 2009 23(1):85-91

High-dose cyclophosphamide in the treatment of multiple sclerosis
Schwartzman RJ, Simpkins N, Alexander G, Reichenberger E, Ward K, Lindenberg N, Topolsky D, Crilley P
CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 2009 15:118-127

CNS Measures of Pain Responses Pre and Post Anesthetic Ketamine in a Patient with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Becerra L, Schwartzman RJ, Kiefer RT, Rohr P, Moulton EA, Wallin D, Pendse G, Morris S, Borsook D
Pain Med 2009 Feb 25

Brachial plexus traction injury: quantification of sensory abnormalities
Schwartzman RJ, Grothusen JR
Pain Med. 2008  9(7):950-7

Deep cervical plexus block for the treatment of cervicogenic headache
Goldberg ME, Schwartzman RJ, Domsky R, Sabia M, Torjman MC
Pain Physician 2008 11(6):849-54

 

Specialties
  • Neurology
  • Chronic Pain Management
Services and Clinical Interests
  • Chronic pain
  • Ketamine treatment for CRPS
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
  • RSD
Residency
  • Medical Residency - Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC; Neurology - University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship
  • Neuromuscular - National Institutes of Health

Primary Practice

Drexel Neurology
219 N. Broad Street
The Arnold T. Berman, M.D. Building, 7th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215-762-6915
Fax: 215-762-6914

Academic Office

  • Department of Neurology
  • 245 N. 15th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19102
  • Phone: work 215-762-6915
  • Fax: fax 215-762-3161

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