Monika Krzesniak-Swinarska, MD

Visiting Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Faculty Photo
Medical School
  • MD, Medical University of Gdansk in Gdansk, Poland (1992)
Residency
  • Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2002)
Fellowships
  • Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program, Neuromuscular Medicine (2016)
Languages
English, Polish
Department
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Publications

  • Howard IM, Tan FC, Irwin RW, Laughlin RS, Chiodo A, Grant PA, Adkins S, Krzesniak-Swinarska M, Malhotra G, Franz CK, Quan D. Anomalous education: You can't bypass electrodiagnostic training in PM&R residency. PM R. 2024 Oct 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39444112
  • Cardon M, Krzesniak-Swinarska M. Caution against using biological sex in the neuromuscular evaluation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Muscle Nerve. 2024 Apr;69(4):504. PubMed PMID: 38362737

Professional Memberships

  • AANEM, Board Member
  • AAPM&R, Fellow
  • IFCN Society of Neuromuscular Imaging (ISNMI), Board Member
  • World Muscle Society, Member
  • AIUM, Member

Practice Locations

UCHealth Spine Center - Anschutz Medical Campus
Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion - 1st Floor
12605 E. 16th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-1980

UCHealth Neurosciences Center - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct
4th Floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-2080

Hospital Affiliation
  • University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Board Certification (2006, 2016)
  • Neuromuscular Medicine, Board Certification (2016)
  • Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Board Certification (2012)
  • Neuromuscular Ultrasound CAQ, Certificate (2019)
  • Registered in Musculoskeletal (RMSK) Sonography Certification, Certificate (2015)
Conditions & Treatments
  • Brain and Nervous System - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
  • Brain and Nervous System
  • Brain and Nervous System - Charcot Marie Tooth Disease (CMT)
  • Brain and Nervous System - Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
  • Brain and Nervous System - Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Brain and Nervous System - Genetic Muscle and Nerve Disease
  • Brain and Nervous System - Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)
  • Brain and Nervous System - Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis
  • Brain and Nervous System - Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS)
  • Brain and Nervous System - Motor neuron diseases
  • Brain and Nervous System - Muscular dystrophies
  • Brain and Nervous System - Myasthenia gravis
  • Brain and Nervous System - Myopathy
  • Brain and Nervous System - Myositis/immune-mediated myopathies
  • Brain and Nervous System - Neurofibromatosis 1 & 2
  • Brain and Nervous System - Nerve injury
  • Brain and Nervous System - Neuromuscular Diseases
  • Brain and Nervous System - Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
  • Brain and Nervous System - Peripheral neuropathies
  • Brain and Nervous System - Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
Clinical Interests
Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Neuromuscular Ultrasound, Neuromuscular Medicine

Personal Interests
I am a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Department of Neurology at University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado, USA. I previously worked at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At UNM, I was a Pediatric and Adult MDA Clinic Director and EMG Lab Director. In 1992 I received a medical degree from the Medical University of Gdansk in Poland. I went on to complete my Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in 2002. In 2016, I completed the Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. I am board-certified in Neuromuscular Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine (scored in the top 10%), Neuromuscular Ultrasound and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. I have served as a Board Member of the IFCN Society of Neuromuscular Imaging (former ISPNI and ISNMI) since September 2019 and as a Board Member of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) since November 2023. I received AANEM’s Ernest Johnson Outstanding Educator Award in 2023.

School of Medicine

CU Anschutz

Fitzsimons Building

13001 East 17th Place

Campus Box C290

Aurora, CO 80045


303.724.5375