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Sandra Jean Robinson, DO
Dr. Robinson is an experienced physician with a passion for medicine. She comes to us from Montana with experience in family practice, emergency room care, inpatient and outpatient care and is a Board Certified Physician. Dr. Robinson joined the staff of CCMH in May 2008.
Dr. Robinson was born in West Virginia to her nurse mother and physician father. She earned her nursing degree and worked for several years in the field. She began training as a general surgeon in the Cleveland, OH and Detroit, MI regions. Dr. Robinson has been active in training EMS teams, serving as surgical, obstetrical and emergency department directors.
In 2003, she returned to Michigan and completed a family practice residency in 2005. After her residency, she was dually Board Certified in Family Practice/OMM and she did additional work to qualify for a second specialty board in neuro-musculoskeletal medicine/osteopathic manipulative medicine. She also has a subspecialty certification in cranial medicine.
 Suresh Patel, MD
Dr. Patel comes to Cavalier County Memorial Hospital with 37 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
Ms. Sillers received a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing
from the University of North Dakota in 1996. She completed
her Master of Science Degree in Nursing with a Family Nurse
Practitioner specialization also from the University of North
Dakota in 2001 and began practice as an FNP at Cavalier County
Memorial Hospital and Clinics in July of 2001.
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 diabetes management, pediatrics and dermatology. 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 two children. Ms. Skaar joined the staff at CCMH Hospital and Clinics in April 2008.
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