Eleanor Bimla Schwarz is Professor in the Division of General Medicine at University of California Davis Medical Center, where she practices both inpatient and outpatient Internal Medicine. Dr. Schwarz's research focuses on improving birth outcomes and women's health. In particular, she is interested in the provision of contraception and preconception counseling to women who are at risk for adverse birth outcomes because of chronic medical conditions, use of medications that can cause birth defects, or limited access to healthcare. She is also interested in the effects of lactation on maternal health. Dr. Schwarz wrote for NEJM Journal Watch Women's Health from 2011 until the publication's closure in 2020 and consulted for NEJM Journal Watch General Medicine from 2020 to 2023.

Information about this editor was up to date at the time of her last affiliation with NEJM Journal Watch.