Keith Swenson

Dr. Keith Swenson is a retired medical doctor who now teaches courses in biology and geology at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. He also served for twenty years as President of Portland’s Design Science Association and was on the board of the Seven Wonders Museum near Mount St. Helens. Keith especially enjoys leading field trips and has taken thousands to Mount St. Helens, the Columbia Gorge, Northwest forests and the Grand Canyon. He co-leads, with Dr. Steve Austin, periodic trips into the “Little Grand Canyon” at Mount St. Helens.

He has a B.S. in Zoology and Pre-medical Studies from the University of Idaho and an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO). He completed residency training at Michael Reese Hospital (Chicago, IL), Oregon Health Sciences University, and Providence Medical Center (both in Portland, OR). He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Dermatology. Dr. Swenson has served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology (University of Illinois) and has practiced clinical medicine for over twenty years.

He and his wife, Connie, have four grown children.

Publications

 * Is the Lava Dome at Mount St. Helens Really a Million Years Old? by Keith Swenson