Chairman, President, and Founder of Swift Institute
Dr. James Lynch is the Chairman, President, and Founder of Swift Institute — a multidisciplinary private practice that provides value-based specialty care and services for its patients. In addition to his leadership roles, he maintains a busy spine neurosurgery practice focused on minimally invasive spine techniques. Dr. Lynch is a board-certified spinal neurosurgeon with 30 years of experience who specializes in complex spine surgery, cervical disorders, degenerative spine, spinal deformities, trauma, tumor infection, and minimally invasive spine surgery. He was the first neurosurgeon in Reno to perform MIS TLIF and MAS PLIF procedures, as well as the first to perform both cervical and lumbar artificial disc replacements. Dr. Lynch performs over 500 spine surgeries annually in hospital and outpatient centers. He is recognized as an expert in cervical spine disorders and performs over 200 cervical spine fusions annually. Dr. Lynch founded Spine Nevada in 2004, and later, in 2022, Spine Nevada, in partnership with HOPCo, acquired Tahoe Fracture. The practice became known as Swift Institute and has grown to be one of Nevada’s largest and most respected specialty practices.