Dr. Timothy Peterson, MD

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Get to know Surgeon, Dr. Timothy Peterson  who provides a full range of general surgery services in Litchfield, MN.

Dr. Peterson is an exceptional and experienced Surgeon who offers a full range of general surgery services including abdominal, laparoscopic, and trauma surgeries. Other surgical procedures include thyroid and parathyroid surgery, endoscopy and colonoscopy, sentinel node biopsy, laparoscopic, abdominal surgery and surgical and injection sclerotherapy.

Dr. Peterson is on staff at Carris Health, an innovative health care system committed to reinventing health care in West Central and Southwest Minnesota. Carris Health was created in January 2018 as a partnership between Willmar’s Rice Memorial Hospital, ACMC Health and St. Cloud-based CentraCare Health. In January 2019, Redwood Area Hospital in Redwood Falls, Minn. and Family Practice Medical Center in Willmar, Minn. joined Carris Health. Carris Health is committed to strengthening health care in West Central and Southwest Minnesota by partnering with organizations that share the same passion for rural health care.

Dr. Peterson earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota. He then completed his general surgery residency at both the Sioux Falls Family Medicine Program and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Program. Additionally, Dr. Peterson is board-certified by the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of General Surgery. 

In addition to numerous awards and accolades, Dr. Peterson was part of a team of medical experts that traveled to the community of Limbe, Haiti to a medical compound that serves 30,000 or more people that depend on one medical staff person and traveling surgical teams to help people in need of care.

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