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, in 1982 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. 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 system, western culture, 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 widely, including national and international settings, to a wide variety of career, professional, educational, medical, governmental, and management groups, most major church denominations, members of the United Nations, NASA, Congress, and the Pentagon.

New Book Release: Last Flight Out of Oz

The mysterious disappearance of an unparalleled genius shakes the community. Has Weissman gone bad? Two brilliant students join forces in a high-stakes mountain chase, battling danger, vengeance, and each other to rescue their beloved mentor, now suspected of terrorism.

Kevin Morgan is a fun-loving, geeky engineering student at tiny Colorado Institute of Mining and Technology. Maggie is the smoldering and aristocratic goddess of Stanford Engineering. What do they have in common? Absolutely nothing, except remarkable intellects, quick wits, and a shared awe for Dr. Anthony Weissman, patent multimillionaire and deeply wounded recluse.

Weissman blames himself—and tight coupling—for the death of his wife and son. He moves from MIT to Colorado hoping for improvement, but finds none. He’s morose, the students dull, with Kevin the sole exception. When the provost interferes with his teaching, Weissman storms off campus and disappears. Fearing the worst, Kevin and Maggie race to find him, head-butting their way through impossible circumstances. Though overmatched on both fronts, Kevin does his best to simultaneously rescue his mentor and court the intense Maggie. As the news worsens, they face heartrending decisions until finally, explosively, they locate Weissman burrowed under a decrepit mining shack where nothing is as it seems. Read More >