Marvin S. Swartz, MD
Marvin S. Swartz, MD, is the interim chair of the Duke Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. He is also professor and head of the Division of Social and Community Psychiatry. He has served as the department's vice chair for clinical services since 1992 and has served as the director of the Duke AHEC (Area Health Education Center) Program since 1997. Swartz's major research and clinical interests are in improving the care of severely mentally ill individuals.
A Massachusetts native, Swartz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1972 and MD degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1980. After completing his internship at the University of Hawaii, he completed the psychiatry residency at Duke in 1984 and became a faculty member at Duke, where he has held a number of clinical, teaching, and administrative positions.
Swartz has been extensively involved in policy issues related to the organization and care of mentally ill individuals at the state and national level. He is a network member in the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, examining the use of legal tools to promote adherence to mental health treatment, and he currently leads the Duke team studying the use of assisted outpatient treatment in New York. He also co-leads a North Carolina study examining the effectiveness of psychiatric advance directives and co-leads the Duke team investigating the role of antipsychotics in treatment outcomes in schizophrenia as part of the landmark NIMH-funded Clinical Antipsychotics Trials of Intervention Effectiveness study. Swartz is also director of the National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives.
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