Dr. Jason J Schwartz, MD

Jason Schwartz, MD, is an assistant professor with the Department of Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is also a hepatobiliary surgeon working with the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute.Schwartz is certified by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons to perform solid organ transplantation of the liver, kidney, and pancreas. He has extensive experience performing highly sensitive kidney transplants as well as transplantation across ABO blood group barriers. Schwartz is one of few surgeons in the country familiar with liver transplantation for the indication of cholangiocarcinoma, cancer of the bile ducts. His current research interests include hepatorenal syndrome and regeneration of the liver.Schwartz received his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his general residency training at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School at Dallas and a fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation …surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is an associate fellow with the American College of Surgeons.