Certified Nurse Practitioners

Alicia Andrews, CNP

Alicia earned her Bachelors of Science Nursing degree from the University of North Dakota. She then went on to attend graduate school at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. She is now a certified adult nurse practitioner. Alicia joined MAPS Medical Pain Clinics in 2009 and currently sees patients at our Chaska and Maple Grove Clinic locations.

Jim Anway, CNP

Jim earned his Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Portland. He then continued on to earn his Masters Degree in Nursing also at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon. Jim joined MAPS in 2000 and sees all types of patients, but is specialized in treating patients with musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain and pelvic pain. He currently sees patients exclusively in our Edina clinic location.

Lisa Benedetto, CNP

Lisa is a nurse practitioner with extensive experience who has provided pain management services for a variety of acute and chronic pain conditions for MAPS since 1998. Lisa received her undergraduate nursing degree from the College of Benedict and her Masters Degree of Science in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Minnesota. She has also worked in the hospital setting performing inpatient consults and managing patients. Lisa is a member of the American College of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Pain Management.

Diane Budnick, CNP

Diane Budnick RN, CNP, joined the MAPS staff in September 2004. She is certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. Diane earned her nurse practitioner certificate from the University of Southern Maine, her bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. She has practiced as a nurse practitioner for 33 years including work in the military, veterans affairs hospital system and private practice. Diane is the manager of the Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants at our Midway clinic. Here she performs evaluations and sees patients for their medication management needs.

Collin Dolecheck, CNP

Collin Dolecheck graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with his bachelors of science in Nursing and from Saint Louis University with his masters in nursing with a focus as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. His background in nursing includes cardiothoracic intensive care and the post-anesthesia care unit. He is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the National Honor Society of Nursing. In his spare time he enjoys camping, hiking, gardening and playing piano.

Mary Esslinger, CNP

Mary Esslinger joined the MAPS staff in 2004. She is board certified as an adult nurse practitioner as well as a pediatric nurse practitioner. Mary obtained her Masters degree and pediatric nurse practitioner certification from the College of St. Catherine in 1993. She received her adult nurse practitioner certification after graduating from the College of St. Catherine in 2004. Mary is involved in MAPS Chronic Pain Program and sees patients exclusively at our Edina office.

Deanna Germain, CNP

Deanna joined the MAPS staff in October 2002. She attended Ancker School of Nursing and did her undergraduate studies for her Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. She completed her Master's Degree in Nursing at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Ms. Germain currently sees patients at our Coon Rapids and Maple Grove clinic locations.

Christa Jensen, CNP

Christa Jensen, CNP joined the MAPS staff in July 2004. She is a Certified Nurse Practitioner and earned her Masters degree in Nursing at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ms. Jensen is also the Nurse Practitioner/Physicians Assistant Division Manager for the MAPS clinic. Prior to starting at MAPS, she worked in a Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) in western South Dakota. Christa is the manager of the Nurse Practitoners and Physician Assistants at our Maple Grove clinic and is currently seeing patients exclusively at this location.

Angela Larson, CNP

Angie joined the MAPS team in July 2001 as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She received a Bachelor's degree in nursing at Penn State University and completed her Master's in Nursing at the University of North Carolina. She has worked for University of North Carolina Hospitals for many years prior to moving to Minnesota. Over the past several years, she has been able to balance her career and her family with two young children by working part-time. After working at several of MAPS locations, she now focuses her time seeing patients exclusively in our Edina clinic.

Lori Leier, CNP

Lori joined MAPS October 2007. She received her undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of North Dakota. She received a degree from Medcenter One College of Nursing in Bismarck, N.D. She then graduated from University of Mary with a Family Nurse practitioner degree. Her background in nursing includes cardiothoracic ICU and post anethesia as well as critical care ICU. Lori’s Nurse Practitioner experience includes both cardiology and pain management. Lori currently sees patients at MAPS’ Shakopee and Midway clinic locations.

Erv London, CNP

Mr. London has been with MAPS since November 2003 as a Certified Nurse Practitioner. Both his undergraduate and graduate degrees are from The College of St Scholastica, Duluth, MN. He is board certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. Mr. London's professional Registered Nursing experience was in the specialty of Adult Cardiology. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel, Assistant Chief Nurse he proudly served twenty six years for the Minnesota Air National Guard. Mr. London sees patients exclusively at our Maple Grove clinic location.

Jeanne Morizio, CNP

Jeanne Morizio graduated from the College of St. Teresa in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. After working a number of years in both the clinical setting as well as industry, she went on to earn her Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota in Nursing in 2009 as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Before coming to MAPS, Ms. Morizio worked in med/surg, ICU, CCU, Urgent Care and as a School Nurse. In the area of industry, her experience is in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs for Baxter Healthcare. She has also been a Nurse Consultant and Wellness Coordinator for The NutraSweet Company's corporate headquarters in Chicago. Away from work, she enjoys reading and crossword puzzles.

Lisa Newcomer, CNP

Lisa Newcomer RN, CNP joined the MAPS team in November 2009. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the University of Iowa in 1991. She then spent many years working in different Midwestern states within the specialties Critical Care in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit as well as Peri-operative nursing in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit. She then turned her attention to pre- and post-op care of orthopedic patients in an orthopedic surgical center. She earned her Masters Degree in Nursing from the University of Minnesota in 2009. She is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She currently sees patients at our Maple Grove location. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, nursing honor society. Outside of work, she enjoys family time with her husband and two young sons, bicycling, and reading in her free time.

Nancy Schmidt, CNP

Nancy has worked for MAPS since May of 2008. Nancy recieved her RN undergraduate degree from the College of St. Scholastica and then went to work at the Mayo Clinic specializing in Nephrology as a RN and subsequently obtained her Masters Degree in Nursing at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire in 2001. After that she relocated to the Twin Cities and worked with Dr. Samuel K. Yue at the Bethesda Pain Clinic and left with him when he opened up his own practice in Lake Elmo. Nancy stayed with him until May of 2008 at which time she came to MAPS and started seeing patients at our Shakopee and Edina clinic locations.

Pat Tomshine, CNP

Ms. Tomshine is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. She is also certified in Public Health Nursing. Prior to joining MAPS, Ms. Tomshine worked as a primary care provider in an internal medicine clinic. Other nursing experience has been in neurosurgery gastroenterology. Research experience has been in the area of computer assisted patient education.

Anne Trujillo, CNP

Anne joined MAPS in August 2000. She is a family nurse practitioner and earned her master's degree from Drake University in Des Moines, IA. She has a bachelors of science degree in nursing from the University of Iowa. Anne is the Director of Clinical Operations at MAPS.

Kari Webber, CNP

Kari Webber joined MAPS in March 2008. She is board certified as an Advanced Practice Nurse in Family Practice. Kari has worked in Pain Management in Nashville, TN for 12 years before coming to MAPS. She graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing with a Masters of Science in Nursing in 1996. She completed her undergraduate studies at Winona State University in 1991. Kari has a strong background in management of implanted pain pump patients. Kari is currently seeing patients at our Maple Grove clinic location.

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