Marc Francis Swiontkowski MD

Marc Swiontkowski, MD, is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is the past president of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and the American Orthopaedic Association. Dr. Swiontkowski attended California State University at Fullerton and obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in biology. He then attended the University of Southern California School of Medicine where in 1979 he obtained his medical degree. Dr. Swiontkowski completed his internship and residency training at the University of Washington. He trained in Davos, Switzerland, completing a fellowship in Laboratory for Experimental Surgery.
In 1984, he accepted a position as Orthopaedic Consultant at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania; in 1985, he was accepted as an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University; in January, 1988, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Vanderbilt; in July of 1988, he was appointed at the University of Washington as Associate Professor. In 1989, Dr. Swiontkowski was promoted to Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and assumed the position of Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. From September 1997 through October 2008, he held the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Swiontkowski is currently the CEO of TRIA Orthopaedic Center in Bloomington, MN, and Professor at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Swiontkowski has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on numerous topics including osteomyelitis, fractures, Laser Doppler Flowmetry, and intermedullary nailing, and has lectured extensively in this country as well as abroad. He is currently the Deputy Editor for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. He has contributed to numerous textbooks and has served as editor to several. He has been awarded several grants as the Principal Investigator in the study of trauma injuries.
Dr. Swiontkowski holds appointments to numerous societies such as AAOS, American College of Surgeons, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, AOA, ORS, Orthopaedic Trauma Association, Association Health Services Research, and Cochrane Collaboration.