Dr. Monika Krzesniak-Swinarska received her medical degree from the Medical University of Gdansk in Poland. She went on to complete her Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in 2002. In 2016, she completed the Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Krzesniak-Swinarska is board-certified in Neuromuscular Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Neuromuscular Ultrasound and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. From 2017 to 2022 she was the Pediatric MDA Care Center Director at University of New Mexico Health Services Center (UNM HSC). Since 2017 she has also served as the Adult MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association) Care Center Director and EMG Lab Director at the UNM HSC. She has been a Board Member of the ISNMI (former ISPNI) since September 2019, and additional serves as a Board Member of the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) since November 2023. Throughout her career, Dr. Krzesniak-Swinarska has shown great interest in resident education, actively participating in multiple PM&R and Neurology residency training programs. She received AANEM’s Ernest Johnson Outstanding Educator Award in 2023.