Philip Schmalz, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at UAB School of Medicine.
He completed his undergraduate studies at Washington and Lee University and the College of Charleston, where he served as a skipper on their nationally renowned sailing team.
After graduation, Dr. Schmalz was hired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Broad Institute in the technology development division, working to scale up new genomic sequencing platforms and processes. He returned to his home town of New Orleans to complete his medical studies at Tulane University, but was promptly lured back to the lab as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar at the National Institutes of Health (HHMI-NIH).
While at HHMI-NIH under the guidance of Dr. John K. Park, he worked to develop new immunotherapeutics for the treatment of malignant gliomas as well as novel techniques in murine glioma models. He pursued his interest in cerebrovascular and endovascular surgery, performing clinical fellowships at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard Medical School, and at Duke University under the guidance of Drs. Christopher Ogilvy and L. Fernando Gonzalez. His clinical interests include cerebrovascular, endovascular, and skull base surgery.
