Marie Patton grew up in Armour, SD and has worked in ICU, acute care, and cardiac care across the country, before coming to Family Medicine in Rapid City. She graduated from CNP school at Clarkson in Omaha in 2016 and came to practice at Medical Arts.
In her spare time, Marie enjoys travel, reading, camping, spending time with friends and family including husband Nick, daughter Quinn, and son Luca.
Kimberly is a Certified Nurse Practitioner, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified, and is a graduate of South Dakota State University. She enjoys camping, golf, and spending time with family and her dogs. Kimberly is double board certified in primary care and mental health and loves to care for patients physical and mental needs.
Megan is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a graduate of Walden University. She has been in practice with RCMC since 2017 and has greater than 10 years experience as a Registered Nurse prior to 2017. She has now found her home in Family Practice and enjoys her patient experiences every day. Her passion lies within caring for the whole family from 0-100+!
Prior to Family Practice, she spent approximately 3 years with gastroenterology and was specialized in IBS and IBD. Being able to optimize patient’s day to day symptoms and help them obtain relief is a gratifying part of her practice.
Megan is a native of Rapid City and enjoys living in the area. She is a wife and a mother of 2 children, Braden and Alexis. Alexis is creative and artistic while Braden is adventurous and motivated. Lilly (Scottish Terrier) and Mya (German Shepherd) bring such joy to their family and keep them on their toes. Megan enjoys time with family and friends, going to church, hiking, boating, vacations, and crafting in her free time.
Sarah has been a Certified Physician Assistant since 2008 and is a graduate of University of Nebraska Medical Center. With a special interest in Obesity Medicine, Sarah is working on her Obesity Medicine Certificate.
She enjoys camping, hiking, biking, and spending time with her family.
Jennifer has been a certified Physician Assistant since 2002 and is a graduate of University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Jennifer has practiced in pediatrics, urgent care and family medicine. Jennifer has been at our westside location since 2015. Jennifer has enjoyed getting to know her patients. She feels blessed to treat such wonderful patients and to be supported by the knowledgeable caring staff at RCMC Westside. Jennifer has three children. She enjoys swimming, yoga, traveling and spending time outdoors with her husband.
Dr. van Egeraat completed medical school and family medicine residency training at Radboud University Nijmegen in eastern Holland. After residency, she practiced family medicine between the United States and Holland for a few years before permanently moving to the United States. She completed an additional family medicine residency with an emphasis in rural health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
She practiced community health in Nebraska for five years following her residency there. She and her husband love the outdoors and the beauty of the Black Hills, which influenced their move to the area in 2008. At this time, she began practicing with the Community Health Center of the Black Hills. She joined Rapid City Medical Center’s Family Medicine Department in 2017.
She enjoys providing multigenerational care because it allows her to build relationships with her patients and their families as she follows them through the stages of life. Within family medicine, she is especially interested in diabetes management and women’s health.
Dr. Toyoda moved to the United States from Osaka, Japan at the age of seven with her mother. She grew up in Rapid City and attended Stevens High School. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.
She completed medical school at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, after which she trained at a family medicine residency in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where her fellow residents and faculty elected her to be chief resident during her final year. Dr. Toyoda was a part of the SDSMA Health Leadership Institute in 2021. Dr. Toyoda is happy to be back home in the beautiful Black Hills and practice at the Medical Arts Clinic where she herself received care as a child.
Dr. Toyoda loves family medicine for a multitude of reasons including being able to care for people of all ages and forming long lasting bonds with her patients. She hopes to help celebrate her patients’ greatest accomplishments as well as be a source of comfort during their most difficult times.
Her hobbies include singing, drawing, painting, jewelry-making, travelling, and spending time with her beloved husband and her spoiled kitties.
Dr. Steffen is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a member of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, the Catholic Medical Association, and the Wilderness Medical Society. His professional interests in addition to the comprehensive outpatient care of individuals and families include pediatrics, fertility awareness-based gynecologic care, medical weight loss, urgent care, office-based procedures, point-of-care ultrasound, aviation medicine, and wilderness/low-resource medicine.
Dr. Steffen grew up on a horse property in Crofton, NE and spent summers riding in Custer and camping with his boy scout troop in the Hills. He attended Creighton University where he earned his bachelor’s degree in biology in 2014, then attended the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and graduated in 2018. Dr. Steffen completed his family medicine residency in Lincoln, NE in 2021.
Dr. Steffen married his wife Shelby in 2015 after their first year of medical school. Shelby Steffen, MD is also a family physician and will be joining the RCMC Medical Arts Clinic. The couple has three children and are happy to call Rapid City their new home. They look forward to getting more involved in their local parish and community as well as getting to explore western SD when hiking, mountain biking, skiing, camping, hunting, and fishing.
Shelby Steffen is a board certified family medicine physician. She was raised in a small farming community in Northeast Nebraska. She completed her undergraduate studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University and then completed medical school at University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2018. She and her husband, Spencer, then moved to Lincoln Nebraska for residency.
Dr. Steffen likes to treat patients of all ages. She truly enjoys treating all members of a family and following them throughout their lives. She is especially interested in pediatric and women’s care, chronic disease management, nursing home care, and in office procedures.
Dr. Steffen and her family are thrilled to be living in the beautiful Black Hills and look forward to exploring it with their three children. Her personal hobbies include running, biking, reading, baking, and chasing three small children.
Dr. Schaeffer chose to become a family physician because of her love for working with people of all ages who have a variety of health conditions. She cares for babies after they are discharged from the hospital, people who are nearing the end of their lives, and everyone in between. She particularly enjoys caring for multi-generational families and providing hospice care.
She grew up in Montana, in a variety of towns of different sizes. Knowing she wanted to eventually go to medical school, Dr. Schaeffer spent a year after college volunteering at a hospice for people with AIDS in Houston, Texas. She then returned north to attend medical school at the University of North Dakota. She completed a residency at the Family Medicine Residency program at Rapid City Regional Hospital – now Monument Rapid City.
She has an adult daughter and a son in elementary school. She and her family enjoy living in Rapid City because of the kind people, natural scenery and geographic location. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her family, reading, camping, and meeting friends for coffee.
