09/11/2024
Dr. Jeffrey A. Sather is next up on our impressive list of 2024 Golden Award recipients.
Sather and his wife, Mary, live in rural Norwich with their dog Murphy (a black lab), a cat, a horse, and a donkey. Together they have seven children and 13 grandchildren.
A Velva native, he spent his early years working on the farm and various other jobs before discovering his lifelong passion. Sather began his career in healthcare when he enrolled in the EMT program at the John Moses US Air Force Hospital in Minot. He worked for the newly developed Community Ambulance Service, a joint venture between Trinity Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital, and started the registered nursing program at Trinity Hospital.
After becoming a certified paramedic in Grand Forks and manager of Care Ambulance in Yakima, Washington, he moved back to Minot to become the clinical coordinator and transition the service to Advanced Life Support. He had simultaneously desired to further his own education with a goal of getting into medical school when he enrolled at Minot State University in 1990 and graduated with a degree in psychology in 1994.
Sather graduated with his Doctor of Medicine degree in May of 1998 from the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences and did an emergency medicine residency at St. Vincent Mercy Health System in Toledo, Ohio.
In July of 2001, Sather joined the medical staff of Trinity Health. In 2003, he became the medical director of the Emergency Trauma Center. He has participated in and led multiple quality initiatives and has held multiple leadership positions over the more than 400 credentialed medical staff members of Trinity Health, including Chief of Staff.
He has been a medical director for the Department of Health and Human Services for the State of North Dakota since 2014. He is responsible for medical direction over the Division of Emergency Medical Systems, including the prehospital EMS system, cardiac and stroke systems, and emergency preparedness.
Sather serves on the Board of Directors of Trinity Health, the Midwest Region of the American Heart Association, the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network, and Quality Health Associates of North Dakota (serving as board president). He is a member of the AHA Coronary Artery Disease Systems of Care Advisory Working Group, a National Committee that peer reviews research proposals in cardiac care. Sather’s lifetime professional passion has been the continuing improvement of rural healthcare in the Minot Community, across the great State of North Dakota and the country.
For more information on the Golden Awards, click below:
https://www.minotstateu.edu/alumni/pages/golden_awards/golden-awards.shtml
