Dr. Keith M. Swetz is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. He is Medical Director of UAB Medicine’s Supportive Care and Survivorship Clinic, and works as an attending physician at The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital, The Kirklin Clinic at Acton Road, UAB Hospital, and at Birmingham VA Medical Center. He also serves at the Ambulatory Clinical Core Leader for the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine at UAB.
Dr. Swetz received his M.D. degree from the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota and a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Swetz also earned a Master of Arts degree in Bioethics and Health Policy from Loyola University Chicago in 2012, and has a strong interest in integrating palliative care into the care of patients with heart failure and left ventricular assist devices.
He has a passion for patient-centered, ethical decision making, particularly as it relates to advanced medical technologies like cardiac devices and hemodialysis. He has written over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and presented on these topics locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Dr. Swetz is happily married and he and his wife, Jessica, have four wonderful children.
