Dwight Remington, DNP, FNP-C, is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and a member of our Pulmonary/Critical Care team. A Minot native, he received both his bachelor’s and doctorate degrees in Nursing from the University of Mary in Bismarck. Prior to becoming a nurse practitioner, Dwight worked as an RN for Trinity Health starting February, 2000, and practiced in various critical care departments, including the adult and newborn intensive care units, the cardiac catheterization lab, and as a flight nurse with NorthStar Criticair. Dwight provides treatment and support to patients in all stages of pulmonary disease and cares for critically ill patients in the ICU. He is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
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Jeffrey Verhey, MD
Dr. Verhey is board certified in three specialties. He is board certified in Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine. His training gives him expertise in treating patients with respiratory and lung conditions. He also is trained to care for those critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Verhey has been with Trinity Health since 1996, and serves Trinity in many capacities. He is the Medical Director for Home Health/Hospice, ICU, Respiratory Therapy and NorthStar CriticAir. He has served as Trinity’s Chief of Staff from 2002-2008. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine for UND School of Medicine and has been honored as the Teacher of the Year at the Northwest Campus several times including three years in a row from 2012-2015. Dr. Verhey received his medical degree from the University of South Dakota-Vermillion, and did his Internal Medicine Residency and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Verhey is a native of Madison, South Dakota. He and his wife, Janelle, have four children.
Sean Stanga, MD
Sean Stanga, MD, is an Allergy and Immunology specialist with primary training in Pediatrics. Dr. Stanga is qualified to care for both children and adults with allergic conditions such as allergies, asthma, hay fever, sinusitis, rashes, hives and reactions to food, insect bites or other environmental triggers. He is also trained in the diagnosis and treatment of primary immune deficiency (PID) and inherited and acquired swelling disorders (angioedema). A graduate of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, he completed his pediatric residency at Raymond Blank Children’s Hospital, Des Moines, IA, and his Allergy/Immunology fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO.
Michael Reder, MD
A specialist board certified in Allergy and Immunology Medicine, Dr. Michael Reder is specially trained to evaluate and treat allergic diseases and asthma in adults and children. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, he completed his internal medicine residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He spent a year as a hospitalist at Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg, SC, prior to completing his fellowship training in allergy and clinical immunology at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA.
Dr. Reder practiced as an allergist in South Carolina for five years, both in Charleston and in Greenville, prior to starting here at Trinity Health in 2011. He is board certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and is a member of both the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Heidi Bender, FNP-C
Heidi A. Bender, DNP, FNP-C, is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and a key member of our Pulmonary/Critical Care team. A Minnesota native, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, and completed her Master’s in Advanced Practice Nursing from South Dakota State University, Brookings. In 2018, she received her doctorate in Nursing from the University of North Dakota. As an RN, Heidi practiced in Emergency Departments at MeritCare in Fargo, Avera St. Luke’s in Aberdeen, and at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Sioux City, IA, where she also served as the department’s staff educator. She was an RN in Trinity’s ICU before completing her nurse practitioner training and joining Pulmonary/Critical Care specialist Jeffrey Verhey, MD, in his practice in 2007. Heidi is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, Emergency Nurses Association, American College of Nurse Practitioners, and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.