Our Board of Directors

Courtney Paterson, MD, joined Logan Health in May 2016. Dr. Paterson is a pediatric hospitalist who extends the depth of the pediatric care programs at Logan Health Children’s and is part of its team of more than 40 pediatric specialists. Dr. Paterson earned her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. She then completed her pediatric residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences program, where she also served as pediatric chief resident. She began professional practice as a pediatric hospitalist with Colorado Permanente Medical Group in Denver, which provides pediatric hospitalist services ranging from small community hospitals to large quaternary pediatric hospitals. In 2013 Dr. Paterson accepted a pediatric hospitalist position with Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana, where she guided the development of their first inpatient pediatric unit. At Logan Health Children’s, she continues to care for patients from infancy through 18 years of age in the hospital setting. Dr. Paterson’s professional interests include enhancing the family-centered care model during hospital admissions, optimizing transitions between inpatient and outpatient medical care, and caring for the medically complex child. In her time away from the hospital, she enjoys skiing, fly fishing, and spending time with her family in the great outdoors of Montana.

Prairie grew up on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in eastern Montana and is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe. She graduated from Rocky Mountain College, with a bachelor’s degree in business, and from the University of Montana, with a master’s degree in business administration. After college, she worked in Washington DC for the Department of Health and Human Services, providing contract management services to Native American communities in the lower 48 states as well as American Samoa, Alaska, and Hawaii. Additionally, she served on multiple federal review panels that successfully awarded over $5 million in governmental contracts to support economic development within native communities.

She worked for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe as the Comptroller for two years, delivering on-time audits as well as providing oversight for $34 million dollars in federal funding.

In 2011, she was a recipient of the National Center for American Indian Economic Development’s 40 Under 40 Award. This prestigious award recognizes 40 emerging American Indian leaders who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, and dedication and made significant contributions in business and their communities.

She is currently the Chief Financial Officer for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, where she oversees the financial operations of the tribe, including the budget, accounting, and finance departments. She is also responsible for the tribe’s investments, including the tribe’s $100 million trust fund. Prairie is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants.

She serves on the board of directors for the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology, which encourages economic development by funding investment research projects with a clear path to commercialization.

Currently, she is the Executive Director of the American Indian Business Leader’s organization, the only native non-profit dedicated to increase the representation of American Indian students in business and entrepreneurial ventures.

In her spare time, she enjoys running, snowboarding, reading, starting new businesses, and hanging out with her family.