Audra Schwalk, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Schwalk was born and raised in Texas and received her initial medical training at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas. She found herself drawn to critically ill patients and those with thoracic malignancies and pursued pulmonary and critical care training at Texas Tech University followed by specialized training in interventional pulmonology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Schwalk brings to UTSW a passion for interventional pulmonology with a focus on patients with malignancy and complications of cancer therapy. Her clinical practice emphasizes patient-centered and multi-disciplinary care and palliation of refractory pulmonary symptoms. In 2019, she earned the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s IP Fellowship Award for Teamwork and Humanism. Dr. Schwalk’s research interests include interventional pulmonology, pleural diseases, minimally invasive treatment options for thoracic malignancies and efficacy of intratumoral medication injections. Dr. Schwalk’s interests outside of medicine include spending time with her family, watching Texas sporting events, camping, hiking, fly fishing and traveling with her husband.

 

Other Post Graduate Training

Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business (2010)

Medical School

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (2013)

Residency

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (2016), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

Texas Tech University Health Science Center (2019), Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine

Fellowship

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (2020), Interventional Pulmonology

• Airway Obstruction
• Interventional Pulmonology
• Lung Cancer
• Lung Preserving Management of Thoracic Malignancies
• Pleural Disease

Featured Publications

Development of Miniature Y Stent for Treatment of Postoperative Bronchial Stenosis.

Schwalk AJ, Marcoux M, Swisher SG, Casal RF, Ann Thorac Surg 2020 08 110 2 e99-e101

Acquired Perfusion Defect.

Bahdi F, Schwalk AJ, Faiz SA, Arch Bronconeumol 2020 Jun

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided injection of NBTXR3 radio-enhancing nanoparticles into mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes: a swine model to evaluate feasibility, injection technique, safety, nanoparticle retention and dispersion.

Casal RF, Schwalk AJ, Fowlkes N, Aburto RR, Norton W, Dixon KA, Lin S, Shaitelman SF, Chintalapani G, Hill L, J Thorac Dis 2020 May 12 5 2317-2324

Symmetrical peripheral gangrene.

Ismail, A., & Schwalk, A. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 2019 7 28 4-6

Indwelling pleural catheters for recurrent pleural effusions: A useful clinical tool with serious implications

Samuel Copeland MD, Audra Schwalk MD, Sakolwan Suchartlikitwong MD, Shengping Yang PhD, Gilbert Berdine MD The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 2018 6 25 8?13

Intra-pleural tissue plasminogen activator and deoxyribonuclease: An alternative treatment option for pleural infections in specific populations.

Medrano, R., Schwalk, A., & Islam, E. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 2018 6 25 38-41

A clinical amalgam: Fever of unknown origin, large B cell intravascular lymphoma and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.

Lacy M, Fuller A, Radhi S, Warraich I. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2018 26 6 e55-57

Pulmonary artery aneurysm secondary to congenital pulmonic valve stenosis.

Schwalk, A., & Berdine, G. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 2017 5 21 32-35

Coccidioidomycosis with diffuse miliary pneumonia.

Sotello D, Rivas M, Fuller A, Mahmood T, Orellana-Barrios M, Nugent K, Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2016 Jan 29 1 39-41

Ciprofloxacin-Induced Renal Failure.

Fuller, A. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 2015 3 12 32-38

 Featured Books

Pulmonary Complications in Cancer Therapy. In MD Anderson Manuel of Medical Oncology, 4th Ed.

Schwalk AJ, Faiz SA, Grosu HB, Bashora L, Shannon VR (2020). McGraw-Hill Education

• Internal Medicine Most Outstanding Fellow
  Texas Tech University (2019)
• MD Anderson Cancer Center IP Fellowship Award for Teamwork and Humanism
  MD Anderson Cancer Center (2019)
• Internal Medicine Most Outstanding Senior
  Texas Tech University (2016)
• Upsilon Phi Delta National Academic Honor Society
  Member (2010)

• American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (2018)
• American College of Chest Physicians (2015)