{"id":2066,"date":"2015-07-27T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2015-07-27T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:42:08","slug":"paul-matson-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/paul-matson-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Matson \u201976"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><a name=\"PaulMatson76_N\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/76_PaulMatson_N.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/76_PaulMatson_N.jpg\" alt=\"76_PaulMatson_N\" width=\"96\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>The Minnesota Medical Association has given a Mankato orthopedic surgeon its highest honor. Dr. Paul Matson of The Orthopedic &amp; Fracture Clinic received the association\u2019s Distinguished Service Award at its annual conference last week in Brainerd, Minn. The association gives the award to a physician who has made outstanding contributions to medicine and the association during his or her career.<\/p>\n<p>Matson has been active in the Blue Earth Medical Society and has served as the Minnesota Medical Association\u2019s president, as well as chair of its board of trustees. He has been a member of the group\u2019s delegation to the American Medical Association since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was humbled and honored to be recognized by my peers,\u201d Matson said Wednesday, adding that he\u2019s thankful for the support of his wife, five children, and partners at the clinic. \u201cThere are a lot of really talented and passionate individuals who serve the medical profession, so to be recognized by them was really truly an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matson received his bachelor\u2019s degree from St. Olaf College and his medical degree from the University of Minnesota. He completed his residency at Minnesota and has been practicing medicine in Mankato since 1988.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Medical Association has given a Mankato orthopedic surgeon its highest honor. Dr. Paul Matson of The Orthopedic &amp; Fracture Clinic received the association\u2019s Distinguished Service Award at its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46","tag-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}