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Chief Medical Officer
As chief medical officer, Dr. Ruth M. Thomson leads and guides the performance of the team of hospice and palliative care physicians and nurse practitioners who provide care to Agrace patients and clients. She serves on Agrace’s executive leadership team and works to ensure that quality patient care is consistently delivered, meeting all agency guidelines, and state and federal standards.
Dr. Thomson joined Agrace in 2021 from Elara Caring in Addison, Texas, one of the nation’s largest providers of home-based care, where she was national hospice medical director. She is board certified in hospice and palliative medicine, internal medicine and as a hospice medical director.
As a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Board of Directors, Dr. Thomson was awarded AAHPM’s 2021 Josefina B. Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award. This award recognizes a hospice medical director that provides the highest quality services and innovative programs and demonstrates exemplary dedication to the practice of palliative medicine in a hospice setting.
Senior Hospice/Palliative Physician
MJ (Mindy) Shah, MD, joined Agrace in 2015. She is board certified in geriatrics and in hospice and palliative medicine. Before coming to Agrace, she worked in Rochester, N.Y., in hospice and long-term care. She is a graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where she also completed geriatric medicine and palliative care fellowships.
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Education:
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse practitioner-2012
Just for fun:
Love to travel to beaches, mountains, deserts and be on the water.
Practice Manager, Medical Services & Supportive Care
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hometown: Beloit, WI
Education:
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse practitioner, 2017
Just for fun:
Spending time with family, playing cards/board games, camping, warm weather vacation destinations, attending my children’s sporting events (currently travel softball), attending minor and major league sporting events as well as theatre and music events.
Hospice/Palliative Physician
Linda Blust, MD, joined Agrace in 2021. She is board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine and internal medicine. Dr. Blust holds an undergraduate degree from Saint Louis University and earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Hospice/Palliative Physician
Anthony Braus, MD, joined Agrace in 2012. He is board certified in geriatrics and psychiatry. Dr. Braus practiced hospital-based psychiatry for more than 20 years, primarily at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison. He regularly consults with staff caring for Agrace hospice and palliative care patients who have forms of dementia and other psychiatric conditions. Dr. Braus received his medical degree from Michigan State University.
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
MacKenzie Clark-Seltzner joined Agrace in 2013. She had previously worked as a nurse on an inpatient cancer unit before becoming a nurse practitioner. She received a master’s degree from Marian University, Fond du Lac, Wis., and holds Advanced Certified Palliative and Hospice Nurse (ACPHN) certification. She currently works at Agrace’s Madison inpatient unit, with both residential hospice patients and those receiving short-term acute care.
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hometown: Oregon
Education:
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse practitioner since 2015
Just for Fun:
Love to garden, spend time with my family and train my 3 dogs and 2 donkeys
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hometown: Potosi, WI
Education:
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse practitioner-March 2019 – present
Just for fun:
I enjoy camping (with tents), fishing, and traveling. My wife and I, pre-Covid, have been traveling to Canada every summer with her family. Someone in her family has been attending the same fishing resort every year since the 1940s. I enjoy watching the Packers and badgers, I am in NCAA basketball and football fan, and I am a huge baseball/Chicago Cubs fan! I try to attend at least one Cubs game every year.
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hospice/Palliative Physician
Bernard Micke, MD, joined Agrace in 1996. Dr. Micke practiced family medicine in Madison for several decades before coming to Agrace, where he helped our organization grow and gain the respect of patients, families and medical professionals in the communities Agrace serves. He serves on the Meriter Hospital Ethics Committee and is a graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Hospice/Palliative Physician
Patricia Neuman, DO, joined Agrace in 2018. She is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, hospice and palliative care and is certified as a hospice medical director. Dr. Neuman was a hospice medical director in Green Bay, WI from 2011 to 2018. Prior to that, she had a clinical practice in pain and spine care.
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hometown: Madison, WI
Education:
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse practitioner-2016
Lead Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hometown: Madison WI
Education:
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse practitioner-2013
Just for fun:
High intensity interval training, Cricut crafting, crocheting, board games, spending time with my family and dogs
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hometown: Sun Prairie
Education:
DNP Nursing-University of Wisconsin Madison
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse practitioner since 2017
Just for fun: Running, hiking, biking, hunting.
Director, Hospice Memory Care Suites
Dr. Kenneth Robbins, MD, MPH, of Madison, is board-certified in internal medicine and psychiatry. Before joining Agrace, he was medical director of the Stoughton Hospital Geropsychiatry Unit and medical director for Rock County’s Mental Health System. He has been on the clinical faculty of the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry since 1985. Robbins is a member of the Dane County Medical Society, Wisconsin State Medical Society and Wisconsin Psychiatric Association. A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, Robbins also and holds a master’s of public health.
Hospice/Palliative Physician
Geoffrey Smith, DO, joined Agrace in 2017. He is board certified in family medicine and is a certified hospice medical director as well as a certified wound specialist. Dr. Smith practiced medicine with Fort Health Care in Johnson Creek and Fort Atkinson, Wis., from 1989 to 2017, working in family medicine. Most recently, he worked at the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Clinic in Fort Atkinson and the Johnson Creek Wound and Edema Clinic. He was also a medical director for Rainbow Hospice for 23 years. A graduate of Drake University, he received his medical degree from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa.
Hospice/Palliative Physician
Karuna Spiegelman, MD, joined Agrace in 2017. She is board certified in internal medicine and integrative holistic medicine, and completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative care in Pennsylvania in 2016. Dr. Spiegleman has been a hospitalist with Meriter UnityPoint Health in Madison for more than 10 years, and served on Meriter Hospital’s Medical Ethics Advisory Committee for nine years. In addition to English, she also speaks French, Russian and French Creole. She is proficient in Hindi and has a basic knowledge of medical Spanish.
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Title: APNP
Hometown: Hancock, WI
Education:
Certifications:
Just for Fun:
I enjoy spending time time with my family and fur baby. I dabble in quilting and refurbishing furniture. We also enjoy camping and hope to see most of the national parks.
Hospice/Palliative Physician
David Watts, MD, joined Agrace in 2016. He is board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, and was a faculty physician in the UW Division of Geriatrics in Madison from 1984 to 2016. Dr. Watts was named one of Madison’s “Top Docs” six times, and was named a “Patient Experience Champion” with UW Health in 2015. He received his medical degree from the University of Washington.
Hospice/Palliative Nurse Practitioner
Hometown: Waupun, WI
Education:
• BSN Nursing – UW Madison, 2014
• DNP – UW Madison, 2021
• Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber – 2021
• Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner – 2021
• Critical Care Nurse Certification – 2016
• Registered Nurse – 2014
Experience in Hospice and Palliative Care:
Supportive Care Nurse Practitioner 2021 – present
Just for fun:
Walking with my husband and corgi, boating and water skiing, reading, spending time with family and friends and traveling.
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