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Lynn S. Horton, MD 

Dr. Lynn S. Horton is a board-certified family physician based in Northwest Wyoming. After 40 years of cumulative experience providing primary care in a variety of settings, including outpatient clinical practice, urgent care, emergency medicine, and as an inpatient hospitalist, Dr. Horton shifted her focus toward preventative, personalized medicine. In January 2025 she opened Wisdom Health, LLC, in Powell, WY. The mission of Wisdom Health is to address and heal the root causes of chronic symptoms and illness. Dr. Horton tailors her patient’s healthcare to their unique genetic makeup, environment, and lifestyle. She incorporates evidence-based research on cellular functions, metabolism, nutrition, stress management, and restorative sleep into her highly personalized and unique treatment plan. Areas of special interest include prediabetes and diabetes; anxiety and depression; obesity and gut issues; perimenopause and menopause; chronic inflammation and toxin exposure.

Dr. Horton believes that by incorporating small, doable practices into their lifestyle, people not only feel and function better, but also reduce their risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune disease. “Our body has evolved to heal itself effectively, as long as we support that healing with the right tools,” Dr. Horton says. She passionately believes that being an effective healer requires a role model who practices self-care. Dr. Horton prioritizes ongoing education to optimize and provide best practice guidelines in Functional Medicine. In addition to maintaining board certification in Family Medicine, she has obtained additional education and training in Integrative Psychiatry; she is currently working on her certificate in Personalized Medicine.

Last spring, after obtaining certification as a Fast Like a Girl lifestyle coach, Dr. Horton utilized the Wyoming Telehealth Network’s Zoom licenses to teach educational, virtual classes on nutrition and lifestyle, and the impact of incorporating small, intentional health practices to optimize health and metabolism. In her first year of practice, Dr. Horton taught a total of six virtual classes and expanded her practice to 1:1 meetings with her personalized medicine clients.

Outside of her work with telehealth, Dr. Horton and her husband, rancher and farmer Rod Morrison, own and operate a certified organic farm, agri-tourism and wellness retreat space on Heart Mountain located between Cody and Powell, WY.

Thank you for your commitment to telehealth excellence, Dr. Horton – we’re excited to see your reach continue to grow.

Click here to learn more about Lynn’s telehealth practice!

Kimberly Huckfeldt-Mundt, LPC

Kimberly Huckfeldt is a licensed Mental Health Counselor with Volunteers of America – Northern Rockies in Wyoming. Born and raised in Torrington, she earned an Associate’s Degree from Eastern Wyoming College, a Bachelor’s in Psychology at the University of Wyoming and a Master’s at Capella University in Mental Health Counseling. Additionally, she is working towards becoming a Licensed Addictions Therapist.

Kimberly works to improve the lives of her adult patients by focusing on improving their mental health and working through substance use disorders. She actively engages with her patients, provides empathy, and walks with them as they work toward achieving their goals. Kimberly started seeing her patients over telehealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, and has continued with this practice ever since. Kimberly was nominated for our 2025 Excellence in Telehealth award. She is a telehealth advocate as noted by her nominator: “Kim is very comfortable with telehealth and will often assist her clients to utilize the services.”. Through the integration of telehealth, Kimberly has maximized her impact, while “provid[ing] excellent service to individuals throughout the state”.

In her free time, Kimberly enjoys going for walks, playing with her black lab, spending time with her family — especially chasing after her 18mo daughter, and watching sports.

Thank you, Kimberly, for your commitment to telehealth excellence!

Click here to learn more about Kimberly’s telehealth practice!

The 2025 nominees for the Dr. James Bush Award for Excellence in Telehealth were truly outstanding. Over the coming months, the Wyoming Telehealth Network will be highlighting these nominees, to recognize and celebrate their achievements and contributions towards the advancements of telehealth services in Wyoming.

Stephen Hawkins, MD

Dr. Stephen Hawkins is a pediatric pulmonologist and sleep specialist at the Children’s Hospital Colorado, and a faculty member at the University of Colorado School of Medicine – Anschutz Campus. He completed his medical education at the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, and then moved to Colorado to complete an internship, residency training, and two fellowships at the University of Colorado (Children’s Hospital Colorado) Program.

Dr. Hawkins is broadly interested in improving sleep outcomes among children and teenagers. He actively engages with his patients and their families, and works with them find the best information, develop a sound treatment plan, and work through that plan together.

Dr. Hawkins was nominated for our 2025 Excellence in Telehealth award by a parent of a patient who described Dr. Hawkins as an empathetic and active listener. Though they initiated treatment before the Covid-19 pandemic, once the shutdown began, Dr. Hawkins quickly adapted to the use of telehealth. Beyond delivering 1-on-1 care via telehealth, Dr. Hawkins remotely coordinated care plans, consulted with other providers (often during the appointments to include the parent’s perspectives), and importantly, was able to deliver the same personable and compassionate standard of care expected of any visit to the doctor’s office. “Dr. Hawkins is in this profession to help kids . . . He is a champion for not only telehealth, but every child and family that get the honor to meet him!”.

Thank you for your commitment to telehealth excellence, Dr. Hawkins!

The 2025 nominees for the Dr. James Bush Award for Excellence in Telehealth were truly outstanding. Over the coming months, the Wyoming Telehealth Network will be highlighting these nominees, to recognize and celebrate their achievements and contributions towards the advancements of telehealth services in Wyoming.

Dustin Brown, DHA, FACHE

Dr. Dustin Brown is a healthcare administrator with the State of Wyoming. Following a career as a Medical Service Corps Officer with the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Brown worked as the Wyoming Medicaid Program Manager. While there, he collaborated with Dr. Bush to write telehealth policy for Wyoming Medicaid that was flexible and adaptable to best support Wyoming providers. This experience introduced Dr. Brown to the potential of telehealth as a tool to expand access to healthcare, especially in our rural and frontier communities. In his current role Dr. Brown and his team at the Department of Education, developed Wyoming’s Project AWARE. The team built upon the in-person SAMHSA programming, to create a tele-mental health model that can be delivered to schools across Wyoming. Their model has had great success, having delivered high-quality mental health and substance use services over 2,000 students in Wyoming. Dr. Brown is a committed leader, researcher, and advocate for telehealth services and we are grateful for his continued efforts!

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Chelsea Paulus, MS, CCC-SLP

Chelsea and her team at Connect Speech Therapy, provide speech and language therapy services to over 400 clients, with ages ranging from 0 to 90 years. They’ve worked to engage and educate school administrators about the role of telehealth in implementing accessible, sustainable, and evidence-based therapy models. These efforts have been successful, as they currently deliver hybrid and virtual care to several school districts across Wyoming, and two Child Development Centers.

Beyond her role providing direct-services to the people of rural Wyoming and Montana, Chelsea is the chair of the Committee on Telepractice on the board for the Wyoming Speech-Language-Hearing Association (WyoSHA). In this role, Chelsea’s “strong desire to improve speech-language services for people in our state” has shined. Her advocacy for the integration of telehealth into standard therapy practices has created waves throughout Wyoming and Montana and continues to expand healthcare access to rural and frontier communities.

Chelsea worked as an early intervention specialist in Alaska before earning her Master of Science in speech-language-pathology from Bowling Green State University in 2016. In November of 2017 she founded Connect Speech Therapy in Sheridan, WY after recognizing the need for speech-language services in Wyoming. Originally based in Sheridan, Connect Speech Therapy has recently opened a clinic in Lander, and currently employs 14 speech-language pathologists, and speech-language pathology assistants.

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John F. Stinebaugh, LMFT

John Stinebaugh began counseling in  2007. Before living and working in Wyoming, John has worked in public education and community mental health in rural Kansas and Colorado, providing a wide array of services to children and their families. John is also a clinical fellow with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and was a graduate of its inaugural Leadership Cohort in 2017.  John completed his bachelor’s degree in human development at Amridge University in 2009 and his master’s degree in marriage and family therapy in 2012. John was honorably discharged from the United States Marines in 2007.  In the office, you can find him providing guidance and support to councilors and supervisors, developing businesses, or training leaders to improve their skills and communities. He may even be doing a session with his therapy dog Huxley, or playing games as a Certified Geek Therapist.

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Sherrie Gould, NP, CMRD and Kelly Papesh, DNP, CMRD

NeuroMotion Telehealth, LLC

Neuromotion Telehealth Foundation

Contact us: neuromotiontelehealth.com

NeuroMotion TeleHealth is a nurse practitioner-led telemedicine company dedicated to providing expert, compassionate care for individuals living with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders—particularly in medically underserved regions such as Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada.

Founded by Sherrie Gould, NP-C, CMRD, and Kelly Papesh, DNP, CMRD, NeuroMotion TeleHealth was born out of a shared passion for closing the gap in access to specialized care. Together, Sherrie and Kelly bring decades of advanced clinical experience in Movement Disorders and have both earned national certification as Certified Movement Disorder Specialists (CMRD), a credential that reflects their deep commitment to excellence in this specialized field.

Their mission is to deliver comprehensive, up-to-date medical and lifestyle management through accessible telehealth visits, while also educating and supporting families on the journey with Parkinson’s and related conditions. NeuroMotion TeleHealth offers direct-pay consultations that include personalized medication plans, expert referrals, and guidance on therapies such as nutrition, physical activity, and speech, all from the comfort of the patient’s home.

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Wendy Ongaro, PA-C, MHS

Wendy Ongaro, PA-C, MHS, has been a physician assistant in primary care for 24 years.  She has experience in the Community Health Center system, having been a Medical Director for four years at a Healthcare for the Homeless in Casper, and working for the local Free Clinic in Sheridan for 9 years, 7 of which she served as the Executive Director.  She was also an Associate Vice President at One Health from 2022 to 2024, serving clinics in both Wyoming and Montana.  She is now a physician assistant at Gannett Health in Sheridan, Wyoming.

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Kristina Ferrell

Katrina started working at Central Wyoming Counseling Center (CWCC) in 2017and as of December of 2022 she became the CWCC 988 Lifeline Program Coordinator overseeing the everyday operations and management of the 988 call center. Katrina is a graduate of the University of Wyoming with a bachelor’s degree in communications. She is a certified Crisis Intervention Specialist, certified Community Health Worker, and a certified Victim’s Advocate.

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Christina Riley, LCSW

Christina Riley is a licensed clinical social worker licensed in both Wyoming and Idaho. She has been practicing psychotherapy for 25 years and works primarily with adults.  She has an office in Driggs, ID where she sees people both in person and remotely. Christina loves her work because she is inspired daily by her clients who choose to grow into a better version of themselves even when the cause for change is something difficult in their life. As she often tells her clients, it’s the most painful times in life that hold the most potential for us to learn and grow.

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