The 13-member Sanford Overall health Board of Trustees oversees governance for the health and fitness technique, guiding the pursuit of Sanford’s mission and supplying oversight of the organization’s strategic way and fiscal and operational general performance.
Maria Bell, MD, is a person of 4 doctors serving on the Board of Trustees. She joined the board in 2013.
A gynecologic oncologist, Dr. Bell treats patients with reproductive cancers by reducing-edge technology and chemotherapy.
“As a training clinician, I deliver something to the table that would be different from the other trustees,” Dr. Bell defined. “In addition, I do outreach in Bismarck and Fargo and telemedicine in Bemidji. So I have awareness of what’s likely on.”
Dr. Bell is no stranger to leadership roles possessing qualities that shaped her in higher education with a tennis scholarship to Augustana University and later on, turning out to be a Hall of Famer for excellence in the sport.
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“I understood I wished to be a health practitioner pretty early in existence – age 12 or 13 – and I knew that tennis would be a car or truck for me to get educated,” she additional.
An achieved physician right now, Dr. Bell is at the forefront of professional medical breakthroughs and is among the the 1st to pioneer robotic hysterectomy medical procedures and instruction around the planet now with countless numbers of robotic surgeries to day.
With a enthusiasm for robotic technological know-how, outdoors of the operating area and clinic, Dr. Bell started Digital Twin Imaging, a 3D modeling company in 2021.
Dr. Bell is a accredited pilot and just completed her 1st cross-state vacation from Sioux Falls to Pensacola, Florida.
“I bought my private pilot’s license concluded that almost certainly 2014 and created a airplane with an additional individual,” Dr. Bell reported. “I really like aviation and I’m absolutely sure that’ll be a thing that I can do going ahead.”
She has enjoyed serving in a governance function to progress Sanford Health and fitness forward and immediately after 9 yrs of company, encourages fellow board associates to go on embracing just about every area of its big footprint.
“I’m interfacing with other intelligent, accomplished folks who are going in the identical direction as I am, as much as wanting Sanford to do perfectly. So that is what I actually have loved about being