SCoBIRC FACULTY

Karin R. Swartz, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Chief of Neurosurgery at the Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Research Interests

As a fellowship-trained spinal neurosurgeon, Dr. Swartz's clinical interests involve various spinal disorders, particularly spinal cord tumors. As a researcher, she has worked with traumatic brain injury and traumatic spinal cord injury. She has investigated the effects of gender, estrogen, and progesterone on spinal cord injury, and is currently involved in projects assessing the neuroinflammatory cascade that occurs after spinal cord injury, in an attempt to find potential treatment options.