 Michael Grandison, DO
Dr. Grandison is a general practitioner who will provide primary care to CCMH service area. He attended medical school at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa, Oklahoma and completed one year of residency in Internal Medicine at Oklahoma University Health Science Center. Before medical school, he worked as a research assistant in biochemistry, as well as a viral technologist for the American Red Cross. Dr. Grandison was born in Manchester, Jamaica and migrated to New York at the age of 14.
 Suresh Patel, MD
Dr. Patel comes to Cavalier County Memorial Hospital with 40 years of experience as an internal medicine physician. Before moving to the United States, Dr. Patel graduated from medical school at the University of Calcutta, worked in Uganda, East Africa and completed his residency in Lincoln, England. He has experience in emergency medicine, internal medicine, gastroenterology, pulmonology, cardiology, intensive care, pediatrics and geriatrics. Dr. Patel has been a practicing physician in North Dakota for the past 23 years and joined the staff of CCMH in September 2008.
Dr. Patel and his wife, Indu, live in Plymouth, MN. Indu, who is also a physician, is board certified in OB/GYN and anesthesiology. They have two daughters.
Gwen
Witzel
Family Nurse Practitioner- Certified
Gwen Witzel is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner who provides primary care to patients of all ages. She has experience in family practice, urgent care and emergent care and is credentialed in ACLS, ATLS, and PALS and has had specialty training in asthma care and women’s health. Gwen Witzel obtained her Masters Degree in Nursing with a Family Nurse Practitioner specialty from UND in Grand Forks in 1997. Prior to graduate school Gwen had 10 years experience as a RN having worked in the cardiac care unit in Fargo, cardiac and neurology floors in a trauma hospital in Scottsdale, AZ, and staff nursing in all areas at CCMH in Langdon, ND. Ms. Witzel is active in her professional organizations, holding positions as the ND State Representative for the Academy of Nurse Practitioners and as the co-chairman for the ND Nurse Practitioner Association. Gwen’s hobbies include sports, fishing, quilting, and reading. Gwen Witzel joined the CCMH medical staff in June 1997.
Elizabeth
Sillers
Family Nurse Practitioner-Certified
Elizabeth Sillers is an Nurse Practitioner at Cavalier County Memorial Hospital. Originally from Calvin, North Dakota, she currently resides in Langdon with her husband Jason and twin daughters. She has practiced as an NP for nearly ten years and has a special interest in type 2 diabetes management. Liz graduated from the University of North Dakota with a BSN in 1996 and MSN in 2001. She is board certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and belongs to the North Dakota Nurse Practitioner Association as well. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, spending time with her family and reading.
Danielle Skaar
Family Nurse Practitioner-Certified
Ms. Skaar grew up near Webster, ND and attended school at Starkweather, graduating in 1996. She attended UND, majoring in nursing and graduating in 2000. Skaar graduated from the FNP program in May 2005. Her previous FNP experiences have been in family practice at First Care Health Center in Park River and at Altru Clinic Lake Region in Devils Lake. She enjoys the variety that working in family practice offers, but especially enjoys the areas of pediatrics and dermatology. Danielle is a Certified Lactation Counselor which allows her to assist mothers and babies with questions or problems related to breastfeeding. She is certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and involved in North Dakota Nurse Practitioner Association as well. Danielle and her husband, Jason, farm near Hampden and have three children. Ms. Skaar joined the staff at CCMH Hospital and Clinics in April 2008.
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