Deputy Chief
Center for Nursing Science and Clinical Inquiry
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
Landstuhl, Germany

Lieutenant Colonel Swiger is the Deputy Chief of the Center for Nursing Science and Clinical Inquiry at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. She began her military career as a Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship recipient at Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. She received her MSN from the University of Texas Health Science Center and her PhD, with a focus in Health Services Research, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her primary research interests are nursing workload and workflow; the nursing practice environment, nursing care quality; and improving outcomes.