Advisory Board
Richard A Swenson, M.D.
Physician, Author, Futurist, Menomonie, WI
Richard A. Swenson, M.D., is a physician-futurist, best-selling author, and award-winning educator. He received his B.S. in physics from Denison University and his M.D. from the University Of Illinois School Of Medicine. Following five years of private practice, Dr. Swenson accepted a teaching position as Associate Clinical Professor with the University of Wisconsin Medical School-Department of Family Medicine where he taught for fifteen years (1982-97). As a physician, his current focus is cultural medicine, researching the intersection of health and culture. As a futurist, his emphasis is fourfold: the future of the world, society, faith, and healthcare.
Dr. Swenson has traveled to over fifty countries, including a year of study in Europe and medical work in developing countries. His emphasis in medicine and futurism is both global and broadly integrative. He has presented to a wide variety of career, professional, educational, medical, and management groups, most major church denominations, members of Congress, and the Pentagon.