Stanley J. Swierzewski III, M.D.,
Founder & Chairman
Dr. Stanley J. Swierzewski III, a board-certified urologist, received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts. He earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, where he serves as associate clinical professor of urology. He completed his urological residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, where he received numerous awards for his research publications.
Dr. Swierzewski founded and was co-director of the Continence Center at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts. He currently directs the Continence Center at Holyoke Hospital in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and is in private practice full time at Hampden Urological Associates.After starting his own practice, Dr. Swierzewski was searching for a way to give his patients the round-the-clock access to health care information they were looking for. The result was a Web site for his practice and a specialty medical channel devoted to urological conditions, treatments, and resources. When his patients expressed an interest in online information about other health-related subjects, Dr. Swierzewski began building Healthcommunities.com, Inc., with the goal of providing trustworthy medical information, developed and monitored by physicians.
Dr. Swierzewski is involved in strategic planning initiatives for Healthcommunities.com and continues to build key partnerships with pharmaceutical and health care companies, physicians, and - most important - patients. He believes that trustworthy and "doctor-driven" content is the key to success for his business.
One of Dr. Swierzewski's goals is to develop a medical specialty Web channel for virtually every health-related issue consumers face today, using the Internet to enhance the doctor-patient relationship.
