William J. Schwartz is Professor of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He received his M.D. (1974) and neurology... » More

William J. Schwartz is Professor of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He received his M.D. (1974) and neurology residency training (1978–1981) at the University of California, San Francisco, completed a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (1975–1978), and was on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital (1981–1986) before moving to the University of Massachusetts. His research program has focused on the neural regulation of circadian rhythms in mammals by the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus. He was recently awarded a Boerhaave Professorship at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands (2005), elected President of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (2004–2006), and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Biological Rhythms (2002– )

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