Dr. Lane Smothers
MD, FACS

General Surgery Board certified

Lane grew up here in Casper and graduated from Kelly Walsh High School.  He attended Anderson University in Indiana, and graduated from Dallas Baptist University with a BS in Biology.  In 1996, he graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.  He completed his General Surgery Residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas in 2001, and has been practicing here in Casper since that time.  As a Board Certified General Surgeon, Lane is committed to providing skillful surgical technique, and to educating patients and their families about their conditions.  He and Laura have been married since 1989, and they have 2 adult children.

Dr Laura Smothers
MD, FACOG

Gynecology

Laura also grew up in Casper, graduated from NCHS, then moved to Texas where she graduated as the valedictorian of Baylor University in 1989.  In 1993 she graduated from the UT Southwestern Medical School. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Methodist Medical Center in Dallas, Texas in 1997, and practiced for 4 years in Dallas before returning to Casper in 2001.  After delivering over 3,000 babies, she retired from Obstetrics at the end of 2018.  In 2019, she merged her Gynecology-only practice with her husband Lane’s practice at Casper General Surgery.  Laura is Board Certified in Gynecology, which gives her the opportunity to provide women’s health care in the office, perform gynecologic surgery, and stay connected with long term patients who return to see her yearly.

Janine Glover
MSN, APRN, NP-C, RNFA, CNOR

Jan is an Advanced Practice RN and Nurse Practitioner who has worked with Dr. Lane Smothers for 12 years.  She functions as his first assistant in the operating room, and performs preoperative and postoperative patient assessments in our office.  She brings 33 years of nursing experience to Casper General Surgery; 18 of those are in the perioperative field.  Jan graduated from Texas A&M University in 1983 with a degree in Animal Science.  She received a BSN from West Texas State in 1988, then went on to achieve her Masters degree in the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program at University of Cincinnati in 2012.  She also received certification as a Registered Nurse First Assistant in 2010 at the College of Southern Nevada.  Jan gets stuff done, and does it well.

Lorena Davis
RN

Lorena graduated from the nursing program at Casper College in 2001 and started working for Dr Laura Smothers that August.  They have now been a team for 20 years!  Lorena’s main focus is providing excellent patient care in a timely and efficient manner.  She feels a great responsibility to be a caring,  compassionate advocate for each patient we see.  Lorena says, “I feel so fortunate to have worked at my dream job for the past 20 years, and now to be part of the wonderful team here at Casper General Surgery”.

Andrea Brown
RN

Andrea joined us at CGS in September of 2020 and is the newest member of our healthcare team.  She previously worked with Dr. Laura Smothers and Lorena at Women’s Health Associates in both the front office and RN capacities, so she was our top pick to replace Dr. Lane’s previous office nurse of 13 years who retired in 2020.  Andrea graduated from the nursing program at Casper College in 2007 and brings compassion, integrity, and attention to detail to her new role here at Casper General Surgery.

Shanice Mayfield

Shanice joined our team in 2020 as the receptionist and front office coordinator for CGS.  She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Health Science with a minor in Health Service Administration from Presentation College in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 2018.  She brings a positive  and welcoming attitude to her role as the first and last person patients see at our office.  The rest of us at CGS appreciate that she is decades younger and light-years cooler than we are, and she is not afraid of technology.

Christie Hilde

Christie has worked at CGS since 2018, and now serves as our medical biller.  She has a BA in paralegal studies from the University of North Dakota, and has over 20 years of billing and medical admissions experience with outpatient clinics, hospitals, and non-profit organizations.  One of her biggest roles here at CGS is to work with patients so their bill is not a burden to them.  She helps them set up payment plans and apply for other community resources if necessary.