A physiatrist specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Jason Coombs, DO, helps patients restore loss of mobility and function due to injury or disease and serves as medical director of our inpatient rehabilitation unit, RehabCare. Dr. Coombs provides both inpatient and outpatient care to people dealing with a variety of conditions such as stroke, brain/spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, and orthopedic trauma. He also provides musculoskeletal examinations and diagnosis using EMG and other techniques. Formerly of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dr. Coombs earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Touro University California and completed his PM&R residency at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital in Grand Rapids. His experience includes medical service across three different continents as part of the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard. A member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Dr. Coombs and his family enjoy sports, outdoor activities, and travel. He’s been active in community service, including a 20-year involvement with the Boy Scouts of America and coaching youth sports teams.
Rehabilitation and Therapy
Katrina Peterson, PT, DPT
Katrina Peterson has been a physical therapist at Trinity since 2004. She grew up in Minot and graduated from the University of North Dakota with a doctorate in physical therapy in 2004. Her career has focused mainly on pediatric therapy, neurological rehabilitation, vestibular therapy, and aquatic therapy. Katie and her husband have 2 busy children. In her free time, she enjoys camping and horseback riding.
Chelsey Reiter, MOT, OTR/L
Chelsey Reiter grew up in Northwest Minnesota and received her Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of North Dakota in 2010. She moved to Minot in the summer of 2010 and has pursued a career working with the pediatric population. She provides services to infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, has specialized in car seat fit and installation for all children including those with special needs, and enjoys working in the outpatient clinic with the pediatric population. Chelsey and her husband enjoy outdoor activities, camping, going on vacations and spending time with family, friends, and their dogs.
Nancy Gasmann, PT
Nancy Gasmann is a native North Dakotan graduating from University of North Dakota with a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy in 1984. She has worked for Trinity for 30 years with the focus of her practice for the last 20 years in pediatrics. Nancy initiated the Hippotherapy program with the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch in 1993. Other areas of career focus include birth to three years of age with the Minot Infant Development and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Nancy and her husband have 2 grown children. In her free time she enjoys walking with the dogs and riding horse.
Erdal Diri, MD
A board certified rheumatologist, Dr. Erdal Diri provides expert treatment for the more than 100 types of arthritis and related disorders of the joints, muscles, bones and tendons. He’s also board certified in Internal Medicine. Originally from Turkey, he received his medical degree from Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty at the University of Istanbul. He did post-doctoral training in pharmacology there and moved to the United States to pursue his rheumatology specialty. He was a research fellow at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans and completed a clinical fellowship in Rheumatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Dr. Diri has maintained an active involvement in clinical research studies aimed at advancing treatment therapies for rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and lupus.
Rehabilitation and Therapy
Why Choose Trinity Health Rehabilitation and Therapy?
Whether you’re healing or managing an ongoing health condition, you deserve care that is geared toward helping you get the most out of life. We pride ourselves in delivering high-quality care that is centered around you — and that includes your goals. We offer:
- Expert care: We deliver expertise in hand therapy, which we offer through our occupational therapy program, physical therapy, and pediatric physical and occupational therapy and speech-language pathology. Our occupational therapy program offers Minot’s only certified hand therapists.
- Physician-directed: We offer Minot’s only physician-directed rehabilitation and therapy program. Our board-certified physician medical director oversees the clinical operations.
- Team approach to care: Our care team includes specialists from various areas of rehabilitation and therapy who work together to provide lifechanging care options. Our pediatric therapy group — which includes physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists, all of whom specialize in treating children — meets monthly to discuss complicated cases.
- Partnership: Our care team works with Trinity Health specialists from multiple areas of medicine, such as primary care, neurosciences and orthopedics, which includes athletic trainers in sports medicine. We work with them to execute your doctor’s care plan and help you recover from an injury or procedure or manage a condition.
- Eased access: We offer north central North Dakota’s largest team of physical therapists, which expands your options for seeing a specialist. While a physician referral isn’t necessary, our electronic referral management program makes the process easy and gets you in for an appointment sooner.