Home  |   Contact Us  |   Site Map  |  Search     
Kathryn Swoboda, M.D.
Kathryn Swoboda, M.D.

Kathryn Swoboda, M.D.

Director, Pediatric Motor Disorders Research Program
Department of Neurology
University of Utah School of Medicine

Dr. Kathryn Swoboda received her medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She completed an internship in medicine at the Evanston Hospital in Chicago, and her neurology residency training at the Harvard Longwood Program in Boston, Massachusetts. She stayed in Boston to complete subspecialty fellowship training in neurophysiology (EMG) and clinical genetics at Harvard at the Boston Children’s Hospital and Lahey Clinic Medical Center. Currently, she is an associate professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Utah, where directs the Pediatric Motor Disorders Research Program. Her research efforts are directed to identifying new treatments for children with motor disorders.

She is a principal investigator for Project Cure SMA, a multi-center research network established in collaboration with Families of SMA to help facilitate the rapid translation of new therapies to clinical trials for patients with spinal muscular atrophy.