Paul Krafft, MD

Paul Krafft, MD

Special Interests

Biography

Dr. Krafft serves as Regional Programs Network Physician in the department’s practice at Halifax Hospital, Daytona Beach, FL. He earned his medical degree at Johan Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Following that, he completed a postdoctoral neuroscience fellowship at Loma Linda University, where he subsequently joined the faculty as an instructor. During that time, Dr. Krafft studied and taught the involvement of peripheral immune cells in neuronal injury progression after ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. 

After working with M.D. and Ph.D. students for over four years, Dr. Krafft advanced his expertise in neuroscience and completed neurosurgery residency training as well as an enfolded fellowship in complex spine surgery at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He received the department’s teaching award for his contributions in resident education. Dr. Krafft serves as a member of the editorial board of the journal Brain Hemorrhages. His clinical interests include neurotrauma, particularly traumatic brain and spinal cord/column injury, complex spine surgery, brain tumor surgery, and stroke.