Brad Schwartz, MD is the Chief Executive Officer of the Morgridge Institute for Research, a private, nonprofit research institute dedicated to interdisciplinary biomedical research in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schwartz is a physician-scientist whose research and clinical activities focus on hemostasis. Dr. Schwartz earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MD from Rush University in Chicago. He completed his residency at UW-Madison and pursued postdoctoral research with Tom Edgington. His clinical training at Scripps Clinic was with Ernie Beutler, an iconic figure in hematology whose contributions spanned genetic diseases of red blood cells to bone marrow transplantation.