SENTINEL PRIMARY CARE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Jodie DuBreuil 2024 - 03 - 13T11
Born and raised in a small town in North Carolina, Dr. O'Connell spent much of his youth outdoors enjoying swimming, hiking, and Boy Scouts. He received a BA from Brown University and returned to North Carolina for medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill. While he was drawn to the intellectual side of medicine and to the problem-solving of diagnostic thinking, it was in a clinical rotation with a family physician that he discovered the call to serve through the personal relationships of primary care medicine. Knowing that he wanted to be a primary care physician, he went from Chapel Hill to Baltimore to train at Johns Hopkins' primary care internal medicine track at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. At the end of his first year he was named Intern of the Year and ultimately stayed on after completing residency training for an additional year as Chief Resident. After two years as a clinical faculty at a small residency training program an hour north of Baltimore, Dr. O'Connell married and returned to the Triangle in 2006. He established himself in Raleigh as a well-liked primary care physician with Duke Health for a decade before founding Sentinel Primary Care in 2017.
Known in his Duke practice for being notoriously behind schedule for spending "too much" time with his patients, Dr. O'Connell practices with a focus on the individual; his philosophy is that the best primary care is delivered one visit at a time, between a doctor and patient who know and trust one another. Doing primary care well requires not only the technical know-how of medicine but a heart for the individual relationship.
Dr. O'Connell is married with four children. The O'Connell family attends St Joseph Catholic Church in Raleigh. Dr. O'Connell's former outdoor activities like mountain biking have given way to kids' activities, and when he's not at Sentinel Primary Care he's working hard at his top priorities, being a husband and father.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Practice Administrator
- Practice Administrator Jodie DuBreuil 2018 - 09 - 10T02
Michael Stillford was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania and grew up in Levittown, PA. He served in the United States Navy for 22 years and achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. While in the Navy, he was a Hospital Corpsman and worked in an array of medical positions such as a minor surgical technician, an x-ray technician, a Fleet Marine Force Corpsman and a medical administrator.
Michael has lived in four different countries, has visited over 20 countries and deployed on three occasions to the Middle East. He holds an Associates in General Studies from Central Texas College, a Bachelor of Science in Health Care Management with Honors from Southern Illinois University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, European Campus. After completing his Naval career, Michael joined Duke Heath where he worked as the Health Care Administrator for Duke Urology of Raleigh, Duke Men's Health Center, and Duke General Surgery of Raleigh. Michael is married with two children and enjoys spending time with them visiting new places and just being together. A few of hobbies of his include gardening, home projects, and classic cars (especially Corvettes).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors