Brian Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3931643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rocky Vista University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4695-4953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to
Dear EditorWe appreciate the comments from Griffin and colleagues [1] about the potential unintended consequences of providing subspecialty learners with a dashboard that contains a list of the pat
Response to
Dear EditorWe appreciate the comments raised by Dr. Koffman [1] in their letter, which explores the ethical considerations with respect to case tracking and patient privacy. The increasing ubiquity
Employing large language models for emotion detection in psychotherapy transcripts
Even though the classification results were only moderate, our model achieved a good performance especially for prediction of symptom severity. The results confirm the role of negative emotions in the prediction of symptom severity, while they also highlight the role of positive emotions in fostering a good alliance. Future directions entail the improvement of the labeled dataset, especially with regards to domain-specificity and incorporating co…
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Substantial Increases in Healthcare Students’ State Empathy Scores Owing to Participation in a Single Improvisation Session
These findings show that a single one- or two-hour improv session can foster substantial increases in healthcare professional students' state empathy for one another. Greater healthcare professional empathy and compassion foster better healthcare team cooperation and patient outcomes, so healthcare professionals and their students should engage in such empathy-enhancing activities at regular intervals throughout their training and careers
Validation and application of the Non-Verbal Behavior Analyzer
This study shows that emotion recognition with NOVA can be used to generate ERMs associated with patient emotions, affective experiences and symptoms. Nevertheless, limitations were obvious. It seems necessary to improve the ERMs using larger databases of sessions and the validity of ERMs needs to be further investigated in different samples and different applications. Furthermore, future research should take ERMs to identify emotional synchrony …
The Use of Digitally Assessed Stress Levels to Model Change Processes in CBT - A Feasibility Study on Seven Case Examples
In psychotherapy research, the measurement of treatment processes and outcome are predominantly based on self-reports. However, given new technological developments, other potential sources can be considered to improve measurements. In a feasibility study, we examined whether Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) using digital phenotyping (stress level) can be a valuable tool to investigate change processes during cognitive behavioral therapy (C…
Impact of a Pandemic and Remote Learning on Team Development and Elements of Compassion in Prospective Medical Students Taking a Medical Humanities Course
Compared to previous years, the pandemic and remote learning had minimal effects on the benefits of our Medical Humanities course
The role of tacit knowledge in communication and decision-making during emerging public health incidents
Fostering Empathy, Implicit Bias Mitigation, and Compassionate Behavior in a Medical Humanities Course
Increases in compassionate behavior improve patient outcomes and reduce burnout among healthcare professionals. We predicted that selecting and performing service-learning projects by teams of prospective medical students in a Medical Humanities course would foster students' compassion by raising their reflective capacity, empathy, and unconscious bias mitigation. In class, we discussed difficulties in communication and implicit bias. In this obs…
Selecting and Performing Service-Learning in a Team-Based Learning Format Fosters Dissonance, Reflective Capacity, Self-Examination, Bias Mitigation, and Compassionate Behavior in Prospective Medical …
More compassionate behavior should make both patients and their providers happier and healthier. Consequently, work to increase this behavior ought to be a major component of premedical and medical education. Interactions between doctors and patients are often less than fully compassionate owing to implicit biases against patients. Such biases adversely affect treatment, adherence, and health outcomes. For these reasons, we studied whether select…
Public health emergency preparedness
This framework describes the complexity of the system yet moves beyond description to use tenets of complexity to support building resilience. This applied public health framework for local/regional public health agencies is empirically-derived and theoretically-informed and represents a complex adaptive systems approach to upstream readiness for PHEP
Proximity to Industrial Food Animal Production and Asthma Exacerbations in Pennsylvania, 2005–2012
The research on industrial food animal production (IFAP) and asthma exacerbations in the United States has relied on small sample sizes and/or self-reported outcomes. We assessed associations of proximity to large-scale and densely stocked swine and dairy/veal IFAP with three types of asthma exacerbations: hospitalizations, emergency encounters, and oral corticosteroid (OCS) medication orders from Geisinger Clinic in Pennsylvania. We used a diagn…
Greenness and Birth Outcomes in a Range of Pennsylvania Communities
Living in communities with more vegetation during pregnancy has been associated with higher birth weights, but fewer studies have evaluated other birth outcomes, and only one has been conducted in the Eastern United States, in regions with a broad range, including high levels, of greenness. We evaluated associations between prenatal residential greenness and birth outcomes (term birth weight, small for gestational age, preterm birth, and low 5 mi…
Assessing health impacts of the December 2013 Ice storm in Ontario, Canada
This suggests that the main health impact of the 2013 Ice Storm was an increase in ED visits for injuries, while other increases could have been due to severe weather across Ontario at that time. This study is one of the first to use a population-level database and regression modeling of emergency visit codes to identify acute impacts resulting from ice storms
Communicating Science through the Performing Arts
The author reviews over a decade of science and the arts programming he and his colleagues have produced and disseminated. The programs have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Physical Society, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and various foundations and corporations. The author gives detailed examples of using science and the arts to reach the public and students with respect to programming rela…
Pandemic H1N1 in Canada and the use of evidence in developing public health policies - A policy analysis
The relationship between temperature and ambulance response calls for heat-related illness in Toronto, Ontario, 2005
BACKGROUND: Concern over the adverse effects of heat on human health has led to numerous studies assessing the relationship between heat and mortality. Few studies have quantified the impact of heat on morbidity, including ambulance response calls. This study describes the association between temperature and ambulance response calls for heat-related illness (HRI) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the summer of 2005. METHODS: Data sources include…
Development of a Surveillance Case Definition for Heat-related Illness Using 911 Medical Dispatch Data
Changing patterns of drug abuse in a seaport
Changing patterns of drug abuse in a seaport: New Orleans, 1975-85. B D Schwartz, L Murray, B Alexander, F R Kauders, and D M GallantCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.6.720-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Pandemic H1N1 in Canada and the use of evidence in developing public health policies - A policy analysis
Communicating Science through the Performing Arts
The author reviews over a decade of science and the arts programming he and his colleagues have produced and disseminated. The programs have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Physical Society, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and various foundations and corporations. The author gives detailed examples of using science and the arts to reach the public and students with respect to programming rela…
The relationship between temperature and ambulance response calls for heat-related illness in Toronto, Ontario, 2005
BACKGROUND: Concern over the adverse effects of heat on human health has led to numerous studies assessing the relationship between heat and mortality. Few studies have quantified the impact of heat on morbidity, including ambulance response calls. This study describes the association between temperature and ambulance response calls for heat-related illness (HRI) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the summer of 2005. METHODS: Data sources include…
Development of a Surveillance Case Definition for Heat-related Illness Using 911 Medical Dispatch Data
Changing patterns of drug abuse in a seaport
Changing patterns of drug abuse in a seaport: New Orleans, 1975-85. B D Schwartz, L Murray, B Alexander, F R Kauders, and D M GallantCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.6.720-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Development of a Surveillance Case Definition for Heat-related Illness Using 911 Medical Dispatch Data
The relationship between temperature and ambulance response calls for heat-related illness in Toronto, Ontario, 2005
BACKGROUND: Concern over the adverse effects of heat on human health has led to numerous studies assessing the relationship between heat and mortality. Few studies have quantified the impact of heat on morbidity, including ambulance response calls. This study describes the association between temperature and ambulance response calls for heat-related illness (HRI) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the summer of 2005. METHODS: Data sources include…
Pandemic H1N1 in Canada and the use of evidence in developing public health policies - A policy analysis
Communicating Science through the Performing Arts
The author reviews over a decade of science and the arts programming he and his colleagues have produced and disseminated. The programs have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Physical Society, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and various foundations and corporations. The author gives detailed examples of using science and the arts to reach the public and students with respect to programming rela…
Greenness and Birth Outcomes in a Range of Pennsylvania Communities
Living in communities with more vegetation during pregnancy has been associated with higher birth weights, but fewer studies have evaluated other birth outcomes, and only one has been conducted in the Eastern United States, in regions with a broad range, including high levels, of greenness. We evaluated associations between prenatal residential greenness and birth outcomes (term birth weight, small for gestational age, preterm birth, and low 5 mi…
Assessing health impacts of the December 2013 Ice storm in Ontario, Canada
This suggests that the main health impact of the 2013 Ice Storm was an increase in ED visits for injuries, while other increases could have been due to severe weather across Ontario at that time. This study is one of the first to use a population-level database and regression modeling of emergency visit codes to identify acute impacts resulting from ice storms
Proximity to Industrial Food Animal Production and Asthma Exacerbations in Pennsylvania, 2005–2012
The research on industrial food animal production (IFAP) and asthma exacerbations in the United States has relied on small sample sizes and/or self-reported outcomes. We assessed associations of proximity to large-scale and densely stocked swine and dairy/veal IFAP with three types of asthma exacerbations: hospitalizations, emergency encounters, and oral corticosteroid (OCS) medication orders from Geisinger Clinic in Pennsylvania. We used a diagn…
Public health emergency preparedness
This framework describes the complexity of the system yet moves beyond description to use tenets of complexity to support building resilience. This applied public health framework for local/regional public health agencies is empirically-derived and theoretically-informed and represents a complex adaptive systems approach to upstream readiness for PHEP
Selecting and Performing Service-Learning in a Team-Based Learning Format Fosters Dissonance, Reflective Capacity, Self-Examination, Bias Mitigation, and Compassionate Behavior in Prospective Medical …
More compassionate behavior should make both patients and their providers happier and healthier. Consequently, work to increase this behavior ought to be a major component of premedical and medical education. Interactions between doctors and patients are often less than fully compassionate owing to implicit biases against patients. Such biases adversely affect treatment, adherence, and health outcomes. For these reasons, we studied whether select…
The role of tacit knowledge in communication and decision-making during emerging public health incidents
Fostering Empathy, Implicit Bias Mitigation, and Compassionate Behavior in a Medical Humanities Course
Increases in compassionate behavior improve patient outcomes and reduce burnout among healthcare professionals. We predicted that selecting and performing service-learning projects by teams of prospective medical students in a Medical Humanities course would foster students' compassion by raising their reflective capacity, empathy, and unconscious bias mitigation. In class, we discussed difficulties in communication and implicit bias. In this obs…
The Use of Digitally Assessed Stress Levels to Model Change Processes in CBT - A Feasibility Study on Seven Case Examples
In psychotherapy research, the measurement of treatment processes and outcome are predominantly based on self-reports. However, given new technological developments, other potential sources can be considered to improve measurements. In a feasibility study, we examined whether Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) using digital phenotyping (stress level) can be a valuable tool to investigate change processes during cognitive behavioral therapy (C…
Impact of a Pandemic and Remote Learning on Team Development and Elements of Compassion in Prospective Medical Students Taking a Medical Humanities Course
Compared to previous years, the pandemic and remote learning had minimal effects on the benefits of our Medical Humanities course
Validation and application of the Non-Verbal Behavior Analyzer
This study shows that emotion recognition with NOVA can be used to generate ERMs associated with patient emotions, affective experiences and symptoms. Nevertheless, limitations were obvious. It seems necessary to improve the ERMs using larger databases of sessions and the validity of ERMs needs to be further investigated in different samples and different applications. Furthermore, future research should take ERMs to identify emotional synchrony …
Substantial Increases in Healthcare Students’ State Empathy Scores Owing to Participation in a Single Improvisation Session
These findings show that a single one- or two-hour improv session can foster substantial increases in healthcare professional students' state empathy for one another. Greater healthcare professional empathy and compassion foster better healthcare team cooperation and patient outcomes, so healthcare professionals and their students should engage in such empathy-enhancing activities at regular intervals throughout their training and careers
Response to
Dear EditorWe appreciate the comments from Griffin and colleagues [1] about the potential unintended consequences of providing subspecialty learners with a dashboard that contains a list of the pat
Response to
Dear EditorWe appreciate the comments raised by Dr. Koffman [1] in their letter, which explores the ethical considerations with respect to case tracking and patient privacy. The increasing ubiquity
Employing large language models for emotion detection in psychotherapy transcripts
Even though the classification results were only moderate, our model achieved a good performance especially for prediction of symptom severity. The results confirm the role of negative emotions in the prediction of symptom severity, while they also highlight the role of positive emotions in fostering a good alliance. Future directions entail the improvement of the labeled dataset, especially with regards to domain-specificity and incorporating co…
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Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Medical education (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)