Eli Schwartz

Born in Jerusalem, Israel, he completed his MD at the Tel Aviv University. He later traveled to London to receive a DTMH at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Schwartz specialises in tropical diseases and travel medicine since 1980. He has lived in Nepal for 2 years and worked in the CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center in Kathmandu, and travels to many countries in Asia and Africa, thus gaining much expertise.[6] He is a Professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, where he guides doctoral student, among others.[7] He has published over 200 scientific papers in his scientific field.[4]

Schwartz is a founding member of the International Society of Travel Medicine, has been part of its Executive Committee (2003–2007) and served as chair of its Professional Education Committee.[8] He is currently member of the Continuing Professional Development Committee and the Examination Committee.[9][10] Schwartz is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Travel Medicine ISSN 1195-1982[11] In the GeoSentinel global surveillance network of the ITSM and the CDC, he is the Israeli site director.[12]

He is also president of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society (APTHS).[2] In Israel he is president of the Israel Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Diseases (ITPPTD).[3]

Schwartz is a consultant for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as various governments in tropical countries.[13] In this position, he has treated UN troops in Angola, as well as the leader of Eritrea, thus serving Israel's diplomatic relations as well as his patients.[14] He has also worked at the Cambodian refugee camps in 1980, and served as a consultant to the Government of Zanzibar (1994) and worked in Ethiopia (1991, 1999) and Senegal (2001).[8]

• Tropical Diseases in Travelers (Eli Schwartz ed). John Wiley & Sons, NY, 2009. 504 pages. ISBN 978-1-4051-8441-0
• Travel Medicine: Tales Behind the Science (Advances in Tourism Research) (Annelies Wilder-Smith, Eli Schwartz, Marc Shaw ed). Elsevier Science, NY, 2008. 333 pages. ISBN 978-0-08-045359-0
• A Hidden Traveler: Narratives of travelers with tropical diseases. By: Eli Schwartz, Orna Schatz-Oppenheimer. Ramot Publishing, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2009. 248 pages. The ISBN even at the publisher (978-965-274-448-4) is bad, causing a checksum error.

• Eli Schwartz's Short CV (2012)