Dr. Swisher received his B.A. in Philosophy from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, before attending Saint Louis University School of Medicine where he earned several academic honors and graduated cum laude. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he served as Chief Resident. Dr. Swisher then joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as a clinical instructor in their Emergency Medicine residency program. In 2003 Dr. Swisher and his wife, Dr. Mary Bassler, joined the medical staff at Mammoth Hospital.