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Gary J. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Gary J. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Professor, Medicine (Endocrinology)

Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience

Neurobiology of obesity and diabetesGastric-bypass surgery

Dr. Schwartz studies how the gut and the brain act together to determine how much people eat. He has identified sites in the gastrointestinal tract and brain that detect nutrients and has discovered how these regions are linked to food intake, obesity and diabetes. He also studies gastric-bypass surgery and the key neural and hormonal mechanisms responsible for the significant and long-lasting improvements in body weight, food intake and diabetes following the procedure. read more...