Carl Osmundson, MD ’98, Big Lake, MN, died March 21, 2009, at age 44, after a three-year battle with cancer.
A native of Grand Forks, ND, he graduated from Grand Forks Central High School and served as a captain in the National Guard with the 187th Medical Battalion. After graduating from the UND medical school in 1998, Dr. Osmundson went on to complete his residency at the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, VA. In 2003, he and his wife, Patricia (Boucher), moved to Big Lake, MN, with their two daughters.

Dr. Osmundson joined the Buffalo Clinic P.A. in 2004, and quickly developed a reputation as a keen diagnostician. He worked in the Monticello (MN) Clinic for a year, doing traditional inpatient/outpatient medicine. He developed the inpatient hospitalist program for the Monticello Clinic at the Monticello-Big Lake Community Hospital. Since 2008, he has served as medical director for the hospitalist and inpatient rehabilitation programs.