2025 Monthly Meetings

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.
 
 In 1979, he received his Medical Degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine.  He completed his internship and residency training at the University of Washington.   After a research fellowship in Switzerland, he joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University.   In July 1988 he returned to the University of Washington and in 1989, was promoted to Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and assumed the position of Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.  From September 1997 through October 2007, he held the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota. He served as a director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery from 1996-2006 and on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties from 2002-2006. He was an American Orthopaedic Association North American Traveling Fellow in 1986 and an ABC Traveling Fellow in 1989. He is CEO emeritus of TRIA Orthopaedic Center, Bloomington, MN, and a Professor in the University of Minnesota in the School of Medicine as well as Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health.
 
Dr. Swiontkowski is an NIH funded investigator and has published articles in peer review journals on numerous topics including osteomyelitis, fracture treatment, and the assessment of musculoskeletal outcomes.  He’s lectured extensively in North America as well as abroad.  He served as  the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery from 2014-2024.