Meet Our Team

Daniel S. Frank, MD is a board-certified internist with over 30 years of practice experience. He is a magna cum laude graduate of UCLA in neuroscience. Dr. Frank attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington and at UCLA. He founded MedNorthwest in 2002, following a 12 year career in emergency medicine, primarily at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Dr. Frank enjoys cycling, photography, and coding in C# and SQL Server. (Dr. Frank is a Seattle Magazine 2023 “Top Doctor” and a Castle Connolly 2024 “Top Doctor.” These are completely meaningless awards, but we throw them in here anyway.)

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Melissa Schorn Kester, DNP is a doctorate-level, board-certified nurse practitioner. A native midwestener, she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with honors from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Washington, one of the best programs in the country. She worked as a nurse practitioner in an academic setting at the University of Washington for five years before joining MedNorthwest. As a nurse practitioner, she has a full scope-of-practice license and can perform all the functions of a physician. Melissa has almost two decades of experience in health care and is proud to serve as the PCP for several physicians who are themselves patients here at MedNorthwest. In addition, she has held several leadership and teaching positions during her career. Melissa’s approach to patient care is to be an excellent listener, radiate kindness, and bring the highest quality scientific research to bear on patient’s problems. When not taking care of temperamental surgeons, Melissa enjoys spending time with her husband and family, reading, cross country skiing, hiking, running with her dog, and boating.

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Ivy is a nurse practitioner who received her bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University. She then worked in research on toxicological and bioanalytical chemistry at Battelle Memorial Institute. This included investigations into radioactive materials, research and development on vaccines, and studying the health effects of a variety of chemicals encountered in everyday life. She returned to Case Western to complete her Master of Science in Nursing to become a nurse practitioner. In addition to her bench science training, she also holds a Master’s in Public Health. Prior to joining MedNorthwest, she worked in gastroenterology. As an adult-gerontology nurse practitioner, Ivy sees patients 13 and up, and her license permits her to perform all the functions of a physician in Washington state for patients in that age range. Although she considers herself a true generalist in internal medicine, her training provided an additional focus on geriatrics. Ivy takes care of a number of complex individuals aged 80 and older, coordinating management with patients and their adult children who are often involved in their care. Interestingly, she has an equal number of patients aged 30 and below, where their parents are also sometimes quite involved. Ivy’s approach to clinical medicine is to empower patients and families to make decisions that are right for each individual. Ivy enjoys painting, reading, and exploring the outdoors with her husband and their dog.

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Roshan Panchanathan, MD (“Dr. P” for short) is a board-certified internist. Dr. P grew up in beautiful Gilbert, Arizona and holds a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley. He received his MD degree from the University of Arizona, where he was nominated by his peers to the Gold Humanism Honors Society. His internal medicine residency was completed at the University of Washington. Dr. P managed to produce nine peer-reviewed papers during his education, including several where he was first author, and also has many poster presentations and abstracts. He enjoys building meaningful relationships with his patients and helping them develop a personalized plan to achieve their health goals. As a general internist, Dr. P especially appreciates the broad mastery of medicine that a true generalist can bring to patients. He loves sports, including basketball, pickleball, and tennis. Dr. P also likes to play the guitar and spend time with family and friends. He is a proud new father in 2024.

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Julianne is a medical assistant who has been with MedNorthwest since 2020. She handles a wide variety of both administrative and medical assisting duties. Julianne received her bachelor’s degree in Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the University of Washington and has a background in primary care. She was born and raised in Washington and is musically quite gifted, having played over 10 instruments. She is also an alumni of the Husky Marching Band. Go Dawgs! Julianne’s affinity for music certainly explains her love for the boy band group, BTS. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, finding new restaurants, playing the piano, reading, and spending time with her friends, family, and her two cats, Oliver and Peaches.

“Dani” is a medical assistant who grew up in Washington State and completed her bachelor’s degree in anthropology at CWU. She then continued her education with additional coursework in anatomy, physiology, microbiology, and organic chemistry. She has worked as a medical assistant since 2017, initially in Moscow, Russia (actually Idaho, but Russia sounds more exotic), and then at Harborview before joining MedNorthwest. Dani handles a variety of front and back-office duties. In her free time, Dani enjoys hiking with her dog Barkley, reading mystery novels, and knitting.

Hunter is a Navy brat who grew up in Sheridan, Wyoming. Her late father was a Navy SEAL on famed SEAL Team Six, and her mom served in the Navy as a petty officer first class. Her younger brother is a corpsman on the USS Comstock. After completing her medical assistant training, she worked in two specialty areas for about four years before moving to Seattle and joining MedNorthwest. Hunter prefers working as a generalist and really enjoys the wide variety of conditions that are seen in primary care. She practices the full scope of medical assisting on both the clinical and administrative sides. When not working, Hunter likes spending time with her two dogs, sailing, and hiking. (Note: Because of her family background in the military, it is recommended that you salute Hunter prior to all blood draws and flu vaccines.)

Dana (pronounced “Donna”) has a degree in applied science from Bellevue College and formerly worked in patient care at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She also spent several years as a manager for a clinical laboratory in Tukwila. After leaving her position at the University of Washington, she did a one-year educational program in software development but ultimately decided that she would rather work with people and not write computer code all day long. At MedNorthwest, Dana practices the full scope of medical assisting, including blood draws, vaccines, vital signs, scheduling patients, medical transcription, and yelling at insurance companies. In her spare time, she likes weightlifting and volleyball. Although Dana was born in Renton, she is fluent in Russian. When not working here, she is a spy for the CIA and translates communications intercepted from the Kremlin.