He holds memberships with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, the Colorado Medical Society, and the Boulder County Medical Society. Dr. Swail is originally from Winnipeg, Canada, where he completed his undergraduate training, and he received his degree in medicine in 1989. He trained in General Surgery at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario for three years and then went onto Plastic Surgery training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.