Specialties: Family Medicine
Areas of Interest: Family Medicine, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Preventative Care, Obesity Medicine, Behavioral Health
Medical School: University of South Dakota
I am from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Both of my parents work in the medical field, as a pharmacist and respiratory therapist, so I was inspired to enter the field from a young age. During a high school mission trip that involved building a house for a homeless family in Mexico, I read Matthew 9:35-36 and felt a calling to try to love others through healing and compassion like Jesus did. I attended medical school at the University of South Dakota, where I also met my wife. We currently have 3 young children and look forward to raising our family in the Madison community.
I’m passionate about rural and international medicine, but especially family medicine and getting to care for multiple generations of a family from newborns through geriatrics. I especially enjoy working with mothers through their pregnancy and then getting to be part of the family as the child grows.
I care deeply about the perspectives of my patients and am passionate about listening to their experiences. I want patients to feel empowered in their pursuit of health in mind, body, and spirit. My hope is that I can see patients in the best possible light and help them to see the best in themselves.
Outside of work, I enjoy exercising and team sports like basketball, tennis, and pickleball. I also enjoy serving in and through my church as well as striving to be a great husband and father – you can find me most evenings in a spirited negotiation regarding bedtime with my kids.
“He smiled understandingly – much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby