Hardworking Surgeon with 21 years of experience at Cuyuna Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Crosby, MN and Riverwood Health Care Center (RHC) in Aitkin, MN. Both institutions offer the unique opportunity to practice highly technical medicine in rural communities. CRMC and RHC have allowed me to grow as a surgeon and develop excellent minimally invasive surgical, endoscopic and robotic skills. I am still deeply committed to both communities.
General, laparoscopic, endoscopic, and robotic surgical skills. |
Started my post-residency surgical career at Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby, MN in 1999, working also at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin, MN and have remained here since.
My daily responsibilities consist of managing daily clinics and performing daily surgical and endocscopic procedures.
Specialties include: Minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery in bariatrics, antireflux, hernia and colon cancer surgery. Other areas of expertise include: providing a wide range of endoscopic procedures, hemodialysis fistula creation and breast cancer management with an emphasis on oncoplastic breast techniques.
Involved with a group of selected physicians, and administrative personnel including our CEO and COO at CRMC. We address future planning while identifying areas needing attention and bringing them to the attention of our Medical Executive Committee and hospital board. We are involved in determining hiring of new physicians and campus expansion as well.
Distributed hospital correspondence, including memos and updates to reinforce and apprise departments and divisions of objectives and developments. Discussed with department leaders on variety of topics that needed addressing with Medical Executive recommendations.
Reviewed operational activities to better determine which strategies were working and which required improvements. I was also a part of the Building Committee which was directly involved with the creation, building and funding of a new hospital for Aitkin and its surrounding communities.
Chairman of all meetings and lead physician for acquiring the Cancer Center Designation at Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby, MN and at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin. Continue to serve on the Commission on Cancer as the Required General Surgeon Member.
-National Board Medical Examiners, 2000
-Licensure, State of Minnesota, #37753
-American Board of Surgery, Certificate#: 45050; Cerifiied 2000, recertified 2008 and 2020
-Fellow American College of Surgeons, Member#: 03039188; Inducted: October 10, 2004
-Cuyuna Regional Medical Center, Active Staff, Crosby, MN, 1999-Present
-Riverwood Health Care Center, Active Staff, Aitkin, MN, 1999-Present
-Board of Directors, Minnesota Surgical Society, 2000-2010
-Board Member, Minnesota State Trauma Advisory Council, Saint Paul, MN, 2005-2007
-President, Hitchcock Surgical Society, HCMC, Minneapolis, MN, 2003-2004
-Chief of Staff, Cuyuna Regional Medical Center, Crosby, MN, 2004-2010
-Chairman, Commission on Cancer, Cuyuna Regional Medical Center and Riverwood Healthcare Center, Development of Cancer Center, 2012-2017
-Board Member, Leadership Council, Cuyuna Regional Medical Center, 2014-present
-Board Member, Riverwood Health Care Center Hospital Board, Aitkin, MN, 2000-2003
-Board Member, Commission on Cancer, Cuyuna Medical Center, Crosby, MN, 2018-Present
-Clinical Faculty Coordinator, Rural Physician Associate Program, University of Minnesota Medical School, 2010-2018
-Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Faculty, Minnesota Institute Minimally Invasive Surgery, 2006-present
-Program Director, Fall Meeting, Minnesota Surgical Society, 2006
-Gross Anatomy Lab Instructor, University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth, 2000-2008
-Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
-American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
-American College of Surgeons
-Hitchcock Surgical Society
-"Criteria for Operative Bailout in Abdominal Trauma with Massive Transfusion"
Podium presentation for Central Surgical Society
Cleveland, Ohio, 1997. Winner Clinical Trauma Award
-Physicians Advisory Board-Honorary Chair, 2003
-Congressional National Leadership Award, 2003
-"Criteria for Operative Bailout in Abdominal Trauma with Massive Transfusion"
Podium presentation for American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)
Waikaloa, Hawaii, 1997
-"Criteria for Operative Bailout in Abdominal Trauma with Massive Transfusion"
Podium presentation for Central Surgical Society
Cleveland, Ohio, 1997
-"Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibition Prevents Endotoxin-Stimulated TNF Release"
Podium presentation for Shock Society
Indian Wells, California, 1997
-"Surgical Wound Management in Perforated Appendicitis"
Podium presentation for Surgical Infection Society
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1997
-"Laparoscopic Nephrectomy: A Superior Alternative"
Poster Presentation for American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Chicago, Illinois, 1997
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