Paul Krafft, MD : Bio and credentials

Paul Krafft, MD, is a University of Florida neurosurgeon at UF Health Neurosurgery at Halifax Health.

Dr. Krafft received his medical degree from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He completed a postdoctoral neuroscience fellowship at Loma Linda University in California, where he studied and taught the involvement of peripheral immune cells in neuronal injury progression after ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

Dr. Krafft completed a residency in neurosurgery and an enfolded fellowship in complex spine surgery at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. There, he received the department’s teaching award for his contributions in resident education. Dr. Krafft has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and dozens of abstracts and poster presentations. Currently, he serves as a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Dr. Krafft is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Brain Hemorrhages.

His clinical interests include traumatic brain injury, brain and spinal cord injury, complex spine surgery, brain tumor surgery and stroke. In addition to English, Dr. Krafft speaks fluent German and Romanian.