William A. Schwartzman
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
Chief, Infectious Diseases Sepulveda VA OPC
Chair, Infection Control Committee
Attending in Infectious Diseases, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Division of Infectious Diseases, 111F
11301 Wilshire Blvd.
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Los Angeles, CA 90073
Tel: (310) 268-3015 Fax: (310) 268-4928
William.Schwartzman@med.va.gov

Research Interests:
Strategic treatment and long-term complications of HIV Infection
Computer-based surveillance of antimicrobial utilization and bacterial resistance
Application of IFN based assay in diagnosis of M. tuberculosis and M. avium-intracellulare exposure
Bartonella infections

Active research studies include:
Pilot Study of gamma-Interferon assay for exposure to MAC (Environmental Protection Agency)
Co-Investigator on HIV Clinical Research Studies Co PI for SMART Study)
Activity of quinolones against clinical isolates of MRSA

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications:

Schwartzman WA, Marchevsky A, Meyer RD, Epithelioid Angiomatosis or Cat Scratch Disease with Hepatic and Splenic Lesions in HIV infection: Case presentation and review of Literature, Scandinavian Journal of InfectiousDiseases April 1990).

Schwartzman WA, Lambertus, M, Roberts R, Kennedy, C, Hanna 1, MB. Staphylococcal pyomyositis in patients infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: report of five cases and review of the literature. American Journal of Medicine, 1991;90:595-600.

Schwartzman WA, Rochalimaea Infections. an expanding spectrum. State of the Art Clinical Article, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Dec. 1992

Schwartzman WA, Nesbitt C, Baron EJ, Development and Evaluation of a Cell Free Medium for Growth of R. henselae, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1993, 31:7, 1882-1885.

Peter JB, Penny R, Patnaik M, Hadfield LT, Schwartzman WA, Role of R. henselae in AIDS-related PGL and NHL. Clin. Diag. Lab. Immunology, Jan 1994.

Schwartzman WA, Patnaik M. et al. Antibodies to R. henselae in AIDS-Related Neurological Disease, Neurology, 1994;44:1312-6.

Schwartzman WA, Patnaik M, Angulo FJ, Miller EN, Visscher BJ, Peter JB, Bartonella (Rochalimaea) Antibodies, Dementia and Cat Ownership Among Men Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1995;21:954-9.

Haake DA, Summers TA, McCoy AM, Schwartzman,W, Heat shock response and groEL sequence of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana, Microbiology, 1997;143 ( Pt 8).

Schwartzman WA, Beenhouwer DO, Schaberg DR. 2007. How relevant were the models used to measure the impact of Panton-Valentine leukocidin in human staphylococcal infections? J Infect Dis. 195:1726-7.

Chapters:

Schwartzman WA, "Cat Scratch Disease and other infections Due to Bartonella", in Schlossberg, ed. Current Therapy of Infectious Diseases (Mosby 2000).

Schwartzman WA, "Cat Scratch Disease and other Bartonella infections" in Current Practice In Infectious Diseases series, Ellie Goldstein ed. (2000).

Schwartzman WA, "Bartonella Infections, Beyond Cat Scratch" in Annual Reviews of Medicine 1996; 47:355-64.

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2008