Assistant Professor Director, Division of Gynecology Department of Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health Director, Fellowship in Advanced Endoscopy University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky

Dr. Shwayder is Director of Gynecology and Gynecologic Ultrasound at Denver Health Medical Center, Danver, Colorado as well as Assistant Professor of OB/GYN at his alma mater, the University of Colorado at Denver. In addition to being in great demand as a lecturer at national meetings, he is a reviewer for a number of journals, including the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine and the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Shwayder, born and raised in Colorado, received his medical degree from the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver in 1978. After completing his residency at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, he went into private practice in Virginia until November of 1998, when he returned to Colorado. He has written numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of ultrasound, hysteroscopy and laparoscopy, physician profiling and outcomes-based medicine. In addition to his professional interests, Dr. Shwayder enjoys skiing, bike riding and traveling with his wife, and 3 children. In what little spare time he has left, Dr. Shwayder is a second year law student at the University of Denver. Upon completion he plans to focus on risk reduction in ultrasound and endoscopic surgery, areas that present significant medical-legal risk for OB/GYN practitioners.

Dr. James M. Shwayder has presented at the following IAME conferences.

Date	City	Conference	Credits
March 19-21, 2004	Atlanta, GA	Fetal & Women's Ultrasound	15 Hours
April 19-21, 2002	Atlanta, GA	Fetal & Women's Ultrasound - 2002	16 Hours
Oct. 12-14, 2001	Washington, DC	National Conference on OB/GYN Ulstrasound	19 Hours
March 30 - April 1, 2001	Atlanta, GA	Fetal Ultrasound - 2001	16 Hours
October 20 - 22, 2000	Chicago, IL	National Conference on OB/GYN Ultrasound	20 Hours
March 17 - 19, 2000	Atlanta, GA	Fetal & Women's Ultrasound - 2000	16 Hours
October 1 - 3, 1999	Washington, DC	National Conference on OB/GYN Ultrasound	16 Hours