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The Pediatric Motor Disorders Research Program, under the direction of Dr. Kathryn Swoboda, is focused on a group of disorders characterized predominantly by defects in motor function, with onset in infancy or early childhood, including:
- spinal muscular atrophy
- neurotransmitter deficiency disorders
- alternating hemiplegia of childhood
Dr. Swoboda sees patients at Primary Children’s Medical Center. The Neurogenetics Research Laboratory is located at the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, where she works closely in collaboration with Dr. Alice Schmid.
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.
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. Project Cure SMA is entirely funded by Families of SMA.
The Pediatric Motor Disorders Research Program is located in the School of Medicine Department of Neurology at the University of Utah.
