Alumni Gazette

Schwartz ’75 Leads National Institute

(Photo: NEIHS)

One of the nation’s top agencies for studying the interaction between the environment and illness will be headed by David Schwartz ’75, a noted researcher who has helped develop three centers focused on environmental health at Duke University.

Schwartz, the director of the Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division and vice chair of research in the Department of Medicine at Duke, becomes the new director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program this April. The institute is a component of the National Institutes of Health.

Schwartz succeeds Kenneth Olden ’03 (HNR), who has led NIEHS since 1991. A former professor of oncology at Howard University who began his doctoral work at Rochester, Olden received an honorary degree from the University in 2003.