Our Team

Our care team represents a combination of disciplines, skills and perspectives to serve the needs of patients. Staff members draw on a vast range of expertise and decades of combined experience to treat patients with epilepsy for whom traditional modes of treatment have proven unsuccessful. Minnesota Epilepsy Group employs and coordinates its services with the following specialties:

• Neurologists, adult and pediatric specializing in epilepsy
• Neurosurgeons specializing in epilepsy
• Neuroradiologists
• Psychiatrists
• Neuropsychologists
• Counseling psychologists
• EEG technologists
• Clinical pharmacists
• Epilepsy nurse specialists
• Social workers
• Child life specialists
• Occupational, physical and speech therapists

Physicians

• 
  Deanna Dickens, MD
• 
  Jason Doescher, MD
• 
  Mike Frost, MD
• 
  Julie Hanna, MD
• 
  Patricia Penovich, MD
• 
  Frank Ritter, MD
• 
  James White, MD
• 
  Paul Atkinson, MD
• 
  Wenbo Zhang, MD, PHD

Psychologists

• 
  Gail Risse, PhD
• 
  Robert Doss, PsyD, ABPP-CN
• 
  Elizabeth Adams, PhD, ABPP-CN
• 
  Ann Hempel, PhD,
  ABPP-CN
• 
  Donna Minter,
  PhD, LP
• 
  Sharon Lea Mason, MA, LP
• 
  Julia Doss, PsyD, LP

Physician Assistants

• 
  Beth Pierce, PA

Nurse Practitioners

• 
  Kimberly Berg, NP
  CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING PATIENTS
• 
  Janelle Pasch-Berglund, NP

Social Workers

• 
  Linnea Cebelinski,
  LGSW
• 
  Diane Hron, MSW, LICSW

Chief EEG Technologists

• 
  Ed Carlson,
  R. EEGT
  EPT, CNIM, CLTM
  Director of EEG
  Services
• 
  Randy Danner,
  R. EEGT,
  CNIM, CLTM
  EEG/IOM Supervisor
• 
  Brian Owens, R. EPT, CNIM
  Supervisor of Neuroscience Support