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Fred Schwartz, M.D. Fred Schwartz, M.D. is recognized as an expert on the use of music to reduce stress in premature babies, in the operating room, and with hospital patients. A board certified, practicing anesthesiologist, Dr. Schwartz pioneered the development of a hospital-wide music system at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia in 1989. The hospital provides many styles and selections of stress-reducing music. He has done a number of medical studies showing how music can speed the recovery and lower the cost of care for premature babies and open heart surgery patients. Dr. Schwartz was the medical spokesman for Governor Zell Miller in bringing music to all newborns in Georgia. He has been interviewed and quoted nationally and internationally on CNN Headline News, NBC News, National Public Radio, BBC, and in Prevention, and Good Housekeeping magazines. He is an active contributor at meetings of the International Society for Music in Medicine and the American Music Therapy Association. Dr. Schwartz is the founder of Transitions Music, which is a company that specializes in producing music for pregnancy, childbirth, newborns, and children. This music has been found to have medical benefits for premature babies and it has been used world-wide. Dr. Schwartz studied psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. A graduate of Creighton Medical School and a board-certified anesthesiologist, Dr. Schwartz completed a residency in Anesthesiology at the Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Schwartz has been a staff anesthesiologist at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia for 25 years. |
