Steven M Schwarz, MD, FAAP, FACN, AGAF, received his BA from Yale College, his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his post-doctoral training in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Stanford and Columbia Universities. He served on the faculty of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1980-1984, and at New York Medical College from 1984-1995, where he was the recipient of the Charles H. Revson Foundation Career Scientist Award, and where he subsequently served both as Chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and as Director of the Graduate Program in Nutrition. In 1995, he was named Distinguished Lecturer in the Graduate School of Health Sciences at New York Medical College. Since 1995, he has been a tenured Professor of Pediatrics at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, where he is Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Dr. Schwarz is past Chair of the Clinical Care and Quality Committee and of the Ethics Committee of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and he authored the society’s policy on professional disclosure and conflict of interest. Dr. Schwarz is Vice-Chair of the Institutional Review Board of the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatric Society, the American Gastroenterological Association and the New York Academy of Medicine. In 2003, he was named to the New York Magazine Best Doctors “Hall of Fame”. Dr. Schwarz is the 2016 recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics Murray Davidson Award in Pediatric Gastroenterology. He has published more than 90 original articles, reviews and book chapters, covering a wide array of research and clinical topics in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. Dr Schwarz is Editor-in-Chief of the American Academy of Pediatrics Review and Education Program for Gastroenterology (PREP-GI).