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Category: Clinical Partners

  • Inspiration | Dr. Jim Lundeen

    Surgeon, Partner, Founder & Friend

    Dr. Andrea Lundeen Kales watched her dad, Dr. Jim Lundeen, put in decades of long hours, making calls and missing dinners. He was known as one of the “three Jims” —

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  • My Why: Dr. Tiffany Rickbeil

    Before deciding to go to medical school, I planned to become a lawyer. But I worked for a law firm throughout college and knew before I graduated that it wasn’t for me.

  • My Why: Matt Peckskamp, PA

    The Benedictine values I learned in college are not only relevant for me in my vocational life, but my personal life and in relationships with other people, too.

  • My Why: Dr. Sean Wherry

    My father was a family medicine doctor and his father was a family medicine doctor, and they worked together in a small practice in a farming community in Northern Colorado.

  • My Why: Dr. Libby Brever

    The passion to practice day-after-day is not one of those things that just happens in an instant, but it happens over the progress of time. I really believe it is an honor to do what I do.

  • My Why: Denise Christie, APRN CRNA

    I had a phenomenal advanced biology teacher in high school who I really respected. Then in my senior year, I toured the College of St. Benedict and their nursing department. It just struck me as something that I wanted to do.

  • My Why: Maria Loerzel, MD

  • My Why: Dr. Jill Amsberry

    I come from a family of elementary school teachers, so initially I wanted to be a teacher.

  • My Why: David Buhl, PA

    Growing up, I had a mother who was a nurse. I had an aunt who was a nurse, too. I remember that oftentimes they’d be talking about their jobs. Sometimes as a kid I would go through my mom’s old nursing textbooks.