Joel S. Stoeckeler, MD

Having accrued nearly 40 years of professional experience, Joel S. Stoeckeler, MD is highly regarded for his extensive medical knowledge. Since 1986, he has worked out of his eponymously-named family practice, Joel Stoeckeler MD LLC, and has also worked locum tenens in emergency medicine at CompHealth and Acute Care Inc. since 2016. With his background, he received America’s Top Family Practice Doctors Award from the Consumer Research Council of America for 2002-2003 and took home the Leonard P. Burke MD Memorial Award from the Minnesota Medical Foundation in 1990.

Additionally, Dr. Stoeckeler has been the owner, manager and operator of Cheep Storage in Lakeland, Minnesota and Hay River Tree Farm in Boyceville, Wisconsin since 2012 and 2005, respectively. Notably, he was the recipient of the Businessman of the Year Award from the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Business Advisory Council in 2005.

Before embarking on his current professional ventures, Dr. Stoeckeler had been a physician with the Ramsey Clinics, Baldwin Medical Group and Baldwin Area Medical Center/Western Wisconsin Health between 1990 and 2016. In the 1980s, he taught science at the Kaplan Educational Center and had served the University of Minnesota in varying roles between 1975 and 1980, including as a research assistant in the Department of Physiology, musical educator and teaching assistant in the Department of Chemistry. Additionally, Dr. Stoeckeler was an emergency healthcare assistant at the Hennepin County Detox Center and a research assistant at the Rocky Mountain Forest Experiment Station in 1970.

To prepare for his career, Dr. Stoeckeler attended the University of Minnesota, where he first conducted coursework in classical music but earned a Bachelor of Art in experimental psychology with a minor in biochemistry in 1976. He followed with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1985, going on to excel as a resident in pediatrics and resident in family practice at the University of Minnesota Medical Center through 1990. Additionally, Dr. Stoeckeler attained a master’s degree in health and informatics from his alma mater in 1986. Today, he maintains membership with the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Board of Family Medicine.

In addition to his primary career path, Dr. Stoeckeler continued to enjoy music and contributed three years of community service with the Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Overseas. Participating in this program, he traveled extensively as a civilian and Department of Defense (DOD) contractor between 1978 and 1996, producing and performing in USO and Morale Welfare and Recreation musical tours sponsored by the DOD. Some of the operations supported included Desert Storm, Operation Deny Flight, Operation Safe Haven, Operation Uphold Democracy and Operation Joint Endeavor.