Lauren W.M. Swager, MD

Associate Professor
Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Director, Pediatric Psychiatry Consult/Liaison Service
Co-Director, Medical Student (MS3) Psychiatry Clerkship

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry

Classification:

Faculty

• MD, West Virginia University

Keener, Tina Antill, Marina Peralta, Melinda Smith, Lauren Swager, James Ingles, Sijin Wen, and Mariette Barbier.  “Student and faculty perceptions: appropriate consequences of lapses in academic integrity in health sciences education” BMC Medical Education (2019) 19:209.  Published 13 June 2019. PMID: 31196066

R. Constance Wiener, Susan Morgan, Lauren Swager, Christina DeBiase, and Christa L. Lilly, “Stimulated Hyposalivary Flow Rates in Healthcare Students in an Interprofessional Awareness Educational Program Curriculum,” Journal of Biomedical Education, vol. 2017, Article ID 9495039, 7 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/9495039.

Available online: https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9495039

Knapp S, Swager LWM, Nield LS.  Game over:  helping a teenager quit a video game addiction.  Consultant for Pediatricians.  June 2014; 13(6):266-268. 

Aboraya A, El- Missiry A, Barlowe J, John C, Ebrahimian A, Muvvala S, Brandish J, Mansour H, Zheng W, Chumber P, Berry J, Elswick D, Hill C, Swager L,  Abo Elez W, Ashour H, Haikal A, Eissa A, Rabie M, El-Missiry M, El Sheikh M, Hassan D, Ragab S, Sabry M, Hendawy H, Abdel Rahman R, Radwan D, Sherif M, Abou El Asaad M, Khalil S, Hashim R, Border K, Menguito R, France C, Hu W, Shuttleworth O, Price E.  The Reliability of the Standard for Clinicians’ Interview in Psychiatry (SCIP): A clinician-administered tool with categorical, dimensional, and numeric output. Schizophrenia Research. July 2014; 156(2014); 174-83.

Venkartaraman, S and L Swager. Case that Tests your Skills “The Confused Binge Drinker” Current Psychiatry. March 2014. Vol 12: No. 3. P-49-53.

Shankar R and L Swager. Case that Test your skills “Angry, inattentive, and sidelined”. Current Psychiatry. November 2013. Vol 12; No. 11. P 49-54.

Veselicky L, Swager, L, Morgan, S, Dolin, D, DeBiase, C, Veselicky, K. Fighting Dry Mouth: An Interprofessional Opportunity. MedEdPORTAL; 2013.  Available from: www.mededportal.org/publication/9308   Selected and presented at American Dental Education Association Annual Session, Seattle, WA from March 16-19, 2013 as a featured published research.

Swager, L and S. Morgan.  Med/Psych Update: Psychotropic-induced dry mouth: Don’t overlook this potentially serious side effect.  Current Psychiatry. December 2011 Volume 10, No. 12: p54-58. 

Medical Specialties

• Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Board Certifications

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Special Training

• Residency, Psychiatry
  University of North Carolina
• Fellowship, Child/Adolescent Psychiatry
  University of North Carolina