CLINICAL FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
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Byron Young, M.D.
Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery
Director of Kentucky Neuroscience Institute
Johnston-Wright Endowed Chair of Surgery
byoun1@email.uky.edu
Dr. Young graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed his residency training in Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and has been awarded numerous NIH and industry-sponsored grants. He served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH, the Advisory Council to National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and other NIH committees. His research interests included movement disorders, brain tumors and neurotrauma. He was co-principle investigator on Amgen proposed clinical trial testing GDNF for Parkinson’s disease. He is board certified with the American Board of Neurological Surgeons.
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Phillip Tibbs, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Director of the Spine Center
patibbs@email.uky.edu
Dr. Tibbs graduated with honors from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1973 and also completed his residency training in Neurosurgery at UK. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and abstracts, including a landmark article on metastatic tumors of the brain in the New England Journal of Medicine and on metastatic spinal tumors in THE LANCET. Dr. Tibbs is a member of numerous medical societies including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Southern Neurosurgical Society and North American Spine Society. He is past president of the Kentucky Neurosurgical Society. Dr. Tibbs was board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons in 1982 and specializes in disorders of the spine.
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Roy Patchell, M.D.
Professor of Neuro-Oncology
rpatchell@aol.com
Dr. Patchell graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and was an intern in Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed a two-year fellowship in Neuro-Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a member of the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is the national clinical trial director of two Radiation Therapy Oncology Group trials and is the principal investigator on NINDS, NIH clinical research in Neuro-Oncology.
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Thomas Pittman, M.D.
Associate Professor in Pediatric Neurological Surgery
tpitt2@email.uky.edu
Dr. Pittman graduated from the Albany Medical College and completed his residency training at the St. Louis University Hospital. He has published 38 peer-reviewed articles and is board certified with the American Board of Neurological Surgeons and the Pediatric Board of Neurological Surgeons. He is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Dr. Pittman serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics and is a methods reviewer for the Journal of Neuroscience.
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Thad Jackson, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
tjack0@email.uky.edu
Dr. Jackson graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and completed his residency training at the University of Kentucky. He also completed a traveling fellowship at the University of Tennessee in minimally invasive spinal disorders. Dr. Jackson is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurologic Surgeons.
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Karin Swartz, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Chief of Neurosurgery at the Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center
karin.swartz@uky.edu
Dr. Swartz graduated from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago and completed her residency at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. She went on to complete a year-long fellowship in spinal surgery at the Institute for Spinal Disorders at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, Calif. She is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Joint Section of Spine and Peripheral Nerves, National Neurotrauma Society, and the North American Spine Society. In addition to her clinical practice at UK, she is the chief of Neurosurgery at the VA. Dr. Swartz also is investigating various spinal cord injury models and therapies. She has special interests in spinal cord tumors, artificial disk technologies, kyphoplasty/vertebroplasty, peripheral nerve lesions, and the phakomatoses.
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Eugene Hessel, M.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
ehessel@uky.edu
Dr. Hessel received his medical degree from the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, California. He completed his anesthesiology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He is board certified with the American Board of Surgery, the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American Society of Echocardiography.
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