Dr. Joseph Schwab earns 2017 Richard Brand Award
Dr. Joseph Schwab earned the 2017 Richard Brand Award at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in March.
About Joseph Schwab, MD, MS
Dr. Joseph Schwab combines his spine surgery and oncology training with his research interests in tumors and degenerative conditions of the spine. He provides excellent patient care today and wants to use research to improve patient treatment in the future.
Dr. Schwab is a board certified orthopedic surgeon who received his residency training from the Mayo Clinic where he was awarded the P.J. Kelly award for outstanding basic science research. He has sub-specialty fellowship training in spine surgery from The Hospital for Special Surgery and orthopaedic oncology from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Schwab earned a BA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio majoring in Religion. He earned his MD from Chicago Medical School where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, as well as a Master's degree in Clinical Pathology.
Dr. Schwab recently earned his second Master's degree from Harvard/MIT School of Health sciences and Technology as part of the Clinical Investigator Training Program (CITP). The program is designed to train young investigators in the science of translational research and clinical trials.
Dr. Schwab plans on utilizing his CITP training to conduct clinical trials in his areas of clinical interest. He has an active practice that includes the management of benign and malignant bone tumors as well as maladies of the spine such as cervical spinal stenosis, cervical myelopathy, lumbar stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, herniated discs and adult scoliosis.
Clinical Interests:
- Adult and pediatric spinal tumors
- Benign bone tumors
- Cervical myelopathy
- Cervical spine conditions
- Cervical stenosis
- Herniated disc
- Lumbar spine conditions
- Lumbar stenosis
- Malignant bone tumors
- Metastatic bone disease
- Minimally invasive spine surgery
- Spinal deformity
- Spinal fusion
- Spine trauma
- Spondylolisthesis
Treats:
- Adult & Pediatrics
Locations
Orthopaedic Spine Service
55 Fruit St.
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
Suite 3A
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-8636
Orthopaedic Oncology Service | Centers for Sarcoma & Chordoma
55 Fruit Street
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
Suite 3B
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-643-0547
Medical Education
- MD, Chicago Medical School
- Residency, Mayo Medical School
- Fellowship, Bologna
- Fellowship, Hospital for Special Surgery
- Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Fellowship, Rizzoli Institute
American Board Certifications
- Orthopaedic Surgery, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna Health Inc.
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Centene/Celticare
- Cigna (PAL #'s)
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Community HealthCare
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
- Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
- Humana/Choice Care PPO
- Maine Community Health Options (MCHO)
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - ACD
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - PBO
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- Medicare ACO - ACD
- Medicare ACO - PBO
- OSW - Connecticut
- OSW - Maine
- OSW - New Hampshire
- OSW - New York
- OSW - Rhode Island
- OSW - Vermont
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Railroad Medicare
- Railroad Medicare - ACD
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Unicare
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
- Well Sense Pediatrics
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Dr. Schwab has an active practice that includes the management of benign and malignant bone tumors as well as maladies of the spine such as cervical spinal stenosis, cervical myelopathy, lumbar stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, herniated discs and adult scoliosis.
Learn more about Dr. Schwab's research and clinical work in the videos and podcasts below.
Value of Immunotherapy in Spinal Oncology
Personalized Risk and Outcome Assessment Benefits through Machine Learning
The North American Spine Society: Controversies and Current Issues in Spinal Cord Tumors
Dr. Schwab has been featured a number of times on the North American Spine Society Podcast.
- Prediction of Survival in Patients With Spinal Metastasis
- Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Technology
- Epidural Abscess
- Survival Prediction and Frailty Evaluation for Patients with Metastatic Tumors
- Operating on Neurofibromas- What Have We Learned?
- An Introduction to Predictive Models for Spinal Metastases
- Definitive Radiation for Oligo Metastatic Disease
- Separation Surgery Along with Stereotactic Radio Surgery for Metastatic Disease
Publications
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Select Publications:
- Devisetty K, Kobayashi W, Suit HD, Goldberg SI, Niemierko A, Chen YL, Raskin KA, Schwab JH, Springfield DS, Yoon SS, Hornicek FJ, Delaney TF. Low-Dose Neoadjuvant External Beam Radiation Therapy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Sep 21.
- Schoenfeld AJ, Hornicek FJ, Pedlow FX, Kobayashi W, Garcia RT, DeLaney TF, Springfield D, Mankin HJ, Schwab JH. Osteosarcoma of the spine: experience in 26 patients treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Spine J. 2010 Aug;10(8):708-14.
- Kim B, Chen YL, Kirsch DG, Goldberg SI, Kobayashi W, Hyun Kung J, Wolfgang JA, Doppke K, Rosenberg AE, Nielsen GP, Raskin KA, Springfield DS, Schwab JH, Gebhardt MC, Yoon SS, Hornicek FJ, Delaney TF. An Effective Preoperative Three-Dimensional Radiotherapy Target Volume for Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma and the Effect of Margin Width on Local Control. Int J Radiati Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 July 1;77(3):843-50.
- Wang X, Wang Y, Yu L, Sakakura K, Visus C, Schwab JH, Ferrone CR, Favoino E, Koya Y, Campoli MR, McCarthy JB, DeLeo AB, Ferrone S. CSPG4 in cancer; multiple roles. Curr Mol Med 2010 Jun;10(4): 419-29.
- Yang C, Hornicek FJ, Wood KB, Schwab JH, Choy E, Iafrate J, Rosenberg A, Nielsen GP, Xavier RJ, Mankin H, Duan Z. "Characterization and analysis of human chordoma cell lines." Spine 2010 Jun 1;35(13):1257-64.