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Department of Neurosurgery Heersink School of Medicine

Schmalz, Philip G.R., M.D.

Dr. Philip SchmalzAssistant Professor

Areas of Interest
Cerebrovascular and skull base surgery, neuroendovascular surgery

CLINICAL PROFILE PUBMED

Bio

Philip Schmalz is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. 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 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. 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, serving six months as Clinical Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard Medical School, and at Duke University under the guidance of Drs. Christopher Ogilvy and L. Fernando Gonzalez, respectively. His clinical interests include cerebrovascular, endovascular, and skull base surgery.

Education

Undergraduate
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

Medical School
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

Residency
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Subspecialty Training 

  • Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellowship (CAST)
  • Neurosurgical Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    Endovascular and Operative Neurovascular Surgery (six months as clinical fellow)

Honors & Awards 

  • James “Buddy” Nobles Jr. Resident Education Award, presented June 12, 2020
  • Griffith R. Harsh III MD Resident Research Award presented at the 34th Annual J. Garber Galbraith Scientific Section and Lecture, October 6, 2017
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • Congress of Neurological Surgeons SANS Challenge Award, 2nd Place
  • Tulane 34 Award (Top 34 Professional and Graduate School Students across University)
  • Thorpe Ray Internal Medicine Award
  • Garvin Saunders Family Fund Academic Scholarship
  • Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company Academic Scholarship, Tulane University School of Medicine
  • Departmental Honors, College of Charleston Department of Biology

Contact

Patient Appointments and Questions
205-934-7170

Campus Address
FOT 1040 1720 2nd Ave. S. Birmingham, AL 35294

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