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Internationally recognized physician, expert in conventional and integrative medicine, Dr. Erika is also a well known author, television and radio personality, speaker, and medical advice columnist helping more than ten million weekly readers find their way to wellness and life in balance.
On TV since the early 1990s, Dr. Erika has hosted her own show under the sponsorship of Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a PBS pledge special and has appeared as a guest and co-host on CBS Early Show, The View, NY1, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Chris Mathews and many others.
Dr Erika has been the subject of, and written articles for many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, W, Glamour, Women’s Health, USA Today, The New York Times, The Boston Herald, Vogue, Shape, Self and Natural Health.
 Born in communist Romania, Dr Erika spent the first 15 years of her life learning 5 languages and going to school in her native country. She graduated high school at the prestigious Overseas School of Rome in Italy. Settled in New York City at the age of 16, she obtained her undergraduate degree at New York University on a full academic scholarship. Dr. Erika Schwartz graduated cum laude from SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine in New York.
After a residency in internal medicine and critical care at Kings County Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Erika became the youngest and first woman in the US to become the medical director of an academic center Emergency Department; at Westchester County Medical Center in New York. As part of her legacy, Dr Erika worked to greatly improve the hospital’s efficiencies by introducing the helicopter, ambulance, paramedic and 911 systems to Westchester County.
In 1984, Dr. Erika started her own private practice in internal medicine and unhappy with the general trend of conventional medicine, began to utilize integrative healing methods to help improve and protect her patients’ health. The success she found in the preventive and integrative approach to her private practice inspired her to include the use of natural hormones (bioidenticals). The outcomes were remarkable.
As a result, Dr. Erika has written four best selling books that specifically help her readers achieve better health by creating a solid hormonal balance by including proper diet, exercise, lifestyle, bioidentical hormones and supplements as well as appropriate use of conventional medical help.
As a columnist and lecturer, her audience is wide and the topics she covers focus on patient empowerment creating better doctor-patient communication, understanding the role of hormones at all ages, learning to evaluate the role and proper place for medical testing, why drug company abuse us and how to protect ourselves, relationships and how they affect our health, scare tactics and medical care, how to control the cost of medical care at the individual level and many others.
As a “Patients Advocate” her guiding principle has been to help protect the public by providing them with sound and unbiased information that makes it easy for people to take responsibility for creating a positive outcome in their health and life.
Dr. Erika’s warm, encouraging, honest and common-sense approach is enhanced by a courageous ability to stimulate discussion and debate with the goal of improving a health system that has failed the individual and is in desperate need of fixing.
While she respects both the advances of traditional medicine and the proliferation of alternative healing cures, she believes that often the enormous number of choices available are not always helpful to the individual. Dr. Erika Schwartz is determined to protect the public from the nefarious effects of dishonest marketing spin and she has the knowledge and experience to accomplish her goal.
One such example is her involvement in the debate over bioidentical hormones. Dr. Erika Schwartz has been working with bioidentical hormones for the past 10 years and has published two books detailing her clinical experience and data on their use. She has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and educated hundreds of thousands of people on this topic. She was invited to Washington, DC to help clarify the issue of bioidentical hormones and the confusion created around them by big drug company spin machines interested in profit at the expense of women in need.
Dr. Erika is also the founder of Integrative Medicine Consultative Practice, which provides hormone balance consultations, health coaching and patient advocacy.
Board of Managers at SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine, the American Society for Internal Medicine, National Association of Medical Communicators (AMA), International Coenzyme Q10 Society, Board Member- Natural Health and Looking Good Now, Medical Advisor to American Media.
"Natural Energy" (CP. Putnam & Sons, 1999)
"The Hormone Solution" (Warner Books, 2002)
"The 30 Day Natural Hormone Plan: Feel and Look Better without Synthetic Hormones" (Warner Books, 2004)
"Dr Erika's Hormone Solution for Your Daughter" (W. Morrow, Harper Collins, 2005)
Shape, Boston Herald, DrHotze.com, Gather.com.
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