Altru Health System Announces Jody Treuer, MD, Joins Board of Directors

Altru Health System announces the election of a new member to the board of directors.

Jody Treuer, MD, at Altru Health System, has been named a member of Altru’s Board of Directors. Dr. Treuer is chair of the diagnostic imaging department at Altru and brings medical experience in a pharmacy, diagnostic radiology, and education of medical students to include physical therapy, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant program education at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Treuer is a graduate of North Dakota State University, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and completed a four-year residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in diagnostic radiology and a one-year fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology.

Other members of Altru’s Board of Directors include Kris Compton, Chair; Lonnie Laffen, Vice-Chair; Philip Gisi, Secretary; Daniel C. Roline; William McKinnon, MD, FACEP; Keith Okeson and Brad Wehe.

About Altru Health System

Based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Altru Health System is a regional, integrated healthcare delivery system serving northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Altru is a physician-led, multi-specialty group practice with an acute care hospital, Level II trauma center, specialty hospital, more than two dozen Grand Forks and regional practice locations, and a large home care network. Altru employs over 300 physicians and advanced practice providers and 3,800 staff. With a focus on advanced technology, Altru deployed the first Mako® Robotic Arm system in North Dakota and enhanced Altru’s Robotics with the recent addition of the DaVinci Xi Robotic Surgical System. In 2018, Altru was awarded fourth Most Wired® in the nation, a recognition for systems at the forefront of using healthcare information technology to improve the delivery of care. Altru Health System has received accreditation from the Joint Commission, the premier health care quality improvement and accrediting body in the nation, and has achieved 50 years of CARF accreditation at Altru’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital. Altru Health System was the first member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, extending Mayo Clinic knowledge and expertise to the patients we serve. For more information, visit altru.org.