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
• Neuropsychologists
• Counseling psychologists
• EEG technologists
• Clinical pharmacists
• Epilepsy nurse specialists
• Social workers
• Child life specialists
• Occupational, physical and speech therapists

Pediatric Neurologists

• Mike Frost, MD
• Jason Doescher, MD
• Nitin Agarwal, MD
• Doug Smith, MD
• Heidi Currier, MD

Adult Neurologists

• Patricia Penovich, MD
• Deanna Dickens, MD
• James White, MD
• Julie Hanna, MD
• Paul Atkinson, MD
•  Micaela Chatman, MD
• Kinshuk Sahaya, MD,  FAAN, FAES
• Palak Shah, MD

Magnetic Source Imaging

• Wenbo Zhang, MD, PHD
• Brian Owens, R. EEG/EPT, CNIM, CLTM, CMEG

Neuropsychologists

•  Gail Risse, PhD, LP
• Robert Doss, PsyD, LP, ABPP-CN
• Elizabeth Adams, PhD, ABPP-CN
• Ann Hempel, PhD, ABPP-CN
• Katie Reger, PhD, LP

Psychologists

• Sharon Lea Mason, MA, LP
• Julia Doss, PsyD, LP
• Maureen O’Connor, PhD, LP

Physician Assistants

• Christa Stout, PA-C
• Kelly Van Dyke, PA-C
• Laura Gonshorowski, PA-C
• Megan Schmittdiel, PA-C

 

Nurse Practitioners

• Janelle Pasch-Berglund, CPNP
• Laurie Jorgensen, CPNP

 

Social Workers

• Diane Hron, MSW, LICSW
• Kristen Stark, MSW, LICSW

 

Chief EEG Technologists

• Jennifer Vierkant
  R. EEG/EPT, RPSGT, CLTM
  Director of END Services
• Kami Kjolsing, R. EEGT
  EEG Supervisor
• Cinque Davis, R. EEGT
  EEG Supervisor
• Dan Cotterell, R. EEGT
  EEG Supervisor