Dr. Dale Agner is a Family Physician and Addiction Medicine Specialist with more than three decades of clinical, teaching, and operational experience across rural, urban, military, and international settings. He currently works as a Faculty-Hospitalist with Obstetrics at the Montana Family Medical Residency, Riverstone Health in Billings, Montana. He received his medical training at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He is board-certified in Family Medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine and in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Agner develops and teaches practical, office-based POCUS and spirometry approaches focused on differentiating heart failure, COPD, asthma, their overlaps, and on accurate volume assessment in complex heart–lung–liver disease—skills he applies in clinic, hospital, shelter-based addiction care, and austere environments. Dr. Agner served 25 years in the U.S. Air Force, including as Chief of Clinical Quality and as the Air Force Surgeon General’s Consultant for Family Medicine, and later spent a decade providing comprehensive care for people experiencing homelessness and addiction through the Open Door Mission Free Clinic.
An experienced educator and global health clinician, Dr. Agner holds faculty appointments with the Montana Family Medicine Residency and as volunteer clinical faculty for UW WWAMI (Billings). He has led POCUS workshops and clinical teaching with INMED, the International Black Sea Family Medicine Congress (Turkey), Tenwek Mission Hospital (Kenya), Northern Macedonia, Honduras, and other venues. Honors include the 2023 INMED National Healthcare Service Award and the 2021 UNMC Alpha Omega Alpha Volunteer Faculty Award; earlier distinctions include the Royal Heart Lung Institute Asthma Education Scholarship and multiple USAF academic awards. Outside medicine, he pursues wilderness medicine, endoscopy, general aviation, and tiny house construction.