Kathleen Schwarz, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics

Director, Pediatric Liver Center

Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program

Specialty:

Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Pediatric Liver Center

Location(s):

Brady 320
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-2631

Dr. Schwarz also sees patients at Greater Baltimore Medical Center . 
 

Education:

Medical School:        
Washington University

Residency:               
St. Louis Children’s Hospital - Pediatrics

Fellowship:               
St. Louis Children’s Hospital - Pediatric Gastroenterology

Special Interests:

Biliary Atresia,
Metabolic Liver Disorders,
Autoimmune Liver Disease,
Viral Hepatitis B and C

Biography:

Dr. Schwarz received her medical degree from Washington University. She then completed her residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine.

Dr. Schwarz is Director of the Pediatric Liver Center at Johns Hopkins in which there are over 1,000 patients who receive medical care. She focuses on liver disorders of childhood with a particular emphasis on biliary atresia, metabolic liver disorders, autoimmune liver disease, and viral hepatitis B and C.

She is Medical Director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program at Johns Hopkins and directs NIH-funded grants in a variety of pediatric liver diseases including biliary atresia (BARC), cholestatic liver diseases of childhood (CLIC), acute liver failure, pediatric liver transplantation, cystic fibrosis liver disease and hepatitis C. Baltimore Magazine named her as one of the top 25 pediatricians in Baltimore and she has won teaching awards at both St. Louis University and Johns Hopkins. In 2005 she received the Distinguished Service Award of the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and, since 2001, has been named one of the Castle Connolly Top Doctors in America. Dr. Schwarz has also been designated a U.S. News and World Report “Top Doctor” and identified as being in the top 1% of pediatric gastroenterologists in the nation.  

Dr. Schwarz currently sees patients in the Johns Hopkins David M. Rubenstein Pediatric Subspecialty Clinic.

Certifications: 

• 1977, American Board of Pediatrics
• 1991, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
• 2006 Pediatric Transplant Hepatology

 

Phone: 410-955-8769

Fax: 410-955-1464

Email: kschwar3@jhmi.edu