Mouser joins internal medicine team at Lake Region Hospital, FF Medical Group

For The Journal

Published Monday, June 23, 2008

Dr. Matt Mouser will feel right at home when he joins the internal medicine team at the Fergus Falls Medical Group on Aug. 1.

Mouser spent nearly a year in Fergus Falls through the University of Minnesota's Rural Physician Associate program about five years ago, and for the past year he and his family have been traveling to Fergus Falls on weekends to work on the home they are renovating on an old dairy farm near Wall Lake.

Mouser is a native of the Blackduck area and a graduate of Bemidji High School, and his wife, Katrina, is a native of Garfield.

He graduated from Bethel University in St. Paul and attended medical school through the University of Minnesota, spending the first two years at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and the fourth year on the Twin Cities campus. His third year of medical school was spent in the Rural Physician Associate Program, working at the Medical Group under the supervision of Dr. Jerry Hendel.

Through the Rural Physician Associate Program, third-year medical students who have an interest in family medicine or rural medicine specialties train for nine months in rural communities.

For the past four years Mouser has been with the Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center in LaCrosse, Wis., where he completed a three-year residency and then spent an additional year as chief resident and as a hospitalist (a physician whose primary practice is in a hospital rather than in a general practice).

Katrina Mouser is a dietitian and has taught at a LaCrosse university. They have two young children, 2 1/2-year-old Ahlea and 4-month-old Micah.