Margaret Lee Schwarze, M.D., an associate professor in the departments of surgery, medical history, and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, will give the Charles & Linda Wilson Lecture in Medical Humanities this week.
Dr. Schwarze will speak at noon Wednesday in the Sorrell Center, Room 1005.
Her topic will be “Of Covenants & Contracts: Preoperative Communication About Risk, Responsibility & Rescue.”
Dr. Schwarze received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
She completed residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Her fellowship training in vascular surgery and clinical ethics was done at the University of Chicago Hospital and Clinics.
She is a practicing vascular surgeon and health services researcher who also directs the clinical ethics curriculum for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Her research interests are in patient-doctor decision making for high-risk operations and end-of-life care for surgical patients. She is an alumna of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars program. She recently received a Cambia Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leadership award and she is funded by the NIH (NIA) and PCORI to test interventions to improve patient-doctor communication.
She also is supported by the National Palliative Care Research Center and the Greenwall Foundation.