Meet Our Team

Pediatech Nursing is proud to introduce our experienced, highly skilled management team.  Our expertise runs from complex clinical knowledge and experience to the nuances of finance and available resource navigation.  Pediatech Nursing maintains an experienced, top-level DO Medical Director who is an invaluable resource for our top management clinicians.

Peter Wheeler

Peter Wheeler

President & CEO

Peter started in the pediatric home care industry when he was 13 years old.  His early days were spent securing a parental ride to work, filing papers, and learning financial processes from Amy.  As an adult, Peter worked in every department but primarily trained with Kevin O’Malley on business administration.  As Peter likes to say he “plays the orchestra”.

In his spare time, Peter enjoys spending time with his daughter, and is a sucker for Dateline episodes.  He maintains an active faith life.

Amy Intrieri

Amy Intrieri

Chief Financial Officer

Amy is what you might call a jack of all trades, but she excels in creative solutions to individual family problems, and managing finance.  Amy joined Pediatech in 2017, just before the change in ownership.  In her free time she enjoys spending time with her family and leading the music program at her church.

Thea Flakne

Clinical Manager

Thea Flakne is experienced, intelligent, and a joy to have working in our clinical management department at this time.  While Thea currently occupies a hybrid role, working shifts in the field in addition to gaining clinical management experience managing cases, she is doing more and more on the management side.  We consider ourselves very blessed to have Thea on our team.  Outside the office, Thea enjoys spending time with her family and friends and her faith life is of the utmost importance.

Linda Remer

Linda Remer

Staffing and HR Manager

Linda joined Pediatech in 2014, and is pictured above with her husband, Scott.  Although we will soon be separating the roles, Linda handles the bulk of HR because it goes hand in glove with staffing.  She is often the first manager on the field, and the last one off.  She also acts as a co-office manager to Nancy.  Linda can be thought of as the “office Mom”, and time after time proves through her actions that her dedication to the agency, and more importantly the patients, is second to none.  

Christina Mikesell, DO

Christina Mikesell, DO

CRCCS Physician Medical Director

At Pediatech, we hope that the Pediatech Nursing clinical relationship with Dr. Christina Mikesell of CRCCS emphasizes and demonstrates our commitment to providing care of the highest quality, and informed by the finest minds.  Dr. Mikesell is not an employee of Pediatech, but functions at the highest clinical level as the organization’s Medical Director. As Medical Director, Dr. Mikesell provides unmatched clinical expertise and consults with organizational clinicians on a range of topics.  Specifically, Dr. Mikesell provides guidance on complex cases and case issues, facilitates complex medical decision making, participates in medical policy making and medical procedure review and approval, and functions as the ultimate overarching Medical expert available to the clinicians responsible for your child’s care.  We find it comforting to know that this level of experience and expertise is there to support our clinical and leadership teams when necessary. Pediatech recognizes the importance of having an experienced, ELITE physician in this role, and Dr Mikesell fits the role perfectly.  She is a top Pediatric Pulmonologist at Children’s Respiratory and Critical Care Specialists.  She is board certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology.  She completed her residency in Pediatrics and her fellowship specializing in Pediatric Pulmonology at the University of Minnesota.  We feel humbled and proud to have Dr. Mikesell as Medical Director and as a member of Pediatech’s Professional Advisory Board.  During her free time she enjoys spending time with her husband and sons at their home in Eagan.  Fun Fact: She not only excels in medicine, but was a Division I Volleyball athlete during her undergraduate college years. 

Pediatech is blessed and grateful to have a physician at her level functioning in the role of Medical Director.

Nancy Nagell

Nancy Nagell

Office Manager

It could be tempting to describe Nancy as working in reception, but that would be a disservice.  Like a great piece of software, Nancy remembers and tracks all the administrative tasks that must get done daily, weekly, and monthly.  Nancy is a born leader, and works hard to ensure we have a productive office.  In her spare time, Nancy enjoys spending time with friends, being with her adult son, and running her own retail business.

Marty Sureth

Marty Sureth

Director of Nursing

We are excited to welcome Marty Sureth, an experienced home care nurse, manager and leader, onto our team as Pediatech’s Director of Nursing.  Marty has all of the qualities one looks for in a Director.  She is competent, efficient, experienced, supportive of her nurses, and has been gifted with a uniquely powerful clinical mind.  In addition to these fine character traits, Marty demonstrates an invaluable ability to maintain calm and control even in the most serious situation, which allows her to respond effectively and correctly in the moment.  Her high level of operating and efficiency has been refined by decades of nursing practice and leadership.  Marty does things right.  One might say that she executes the clinical operation “by the book”.  All of these positive qualities are rooted in an understanding of what makes an agency great, and deep and felt sense of compassion and love for the patients.  Marty has made it clear that under her leadership the pursuit of excellence will remain an ever present ideal to aspire to in everything that we do.  Patients and Nurses alike are very lucky to have such a rare gem in the DON role.  This bio is evolving…more to come!

Emily Hagen-Oakes

Emily Hagen-Oakes

Clinical Nurse Manager

Emily is the newest member of the management team.  Emily came to Pediatech expressing a desire to learn, and putting for a goal to advance within the organization.  Emily is the type of energetic team member that makes Pediatech thrive.

 

Carrying on the Legacy

Carrying on the Legacy

Larraine Somers O'Malley

Although our Bios describe our time and roles at Pediatech Nursing, the entire management team started out together at Caregiver’s Network.  CGN was owned and operated by industry pioneers Kevin and Larraine O’Malley, and everyone on our team owes some portion of their knowledge and experience to Kevin and Larraine.  When Peter realized he was not smart enough to be a CRCCS physician, committing to carrying on Kevin and Larraine’s legacy through Pediatech became the clear career choice.  “Say a Hail Mary, and move on”

– Larraine O’Malley, Industry Pioneer and Co-Founder of Pediatech Nursing