Maximizing Medical Practice Conference

As the President and CEO of Mitesco, Inc., a publicly traded growth company, Mr. Diamond led the development and acquisition of innovative technologies and services that improve healthcare outcomes for individuals and providers. With over twenty-five years of experience in healthcare, health tech, and health insurance, he demonstrates a vision and a passion for creating shareholder value and enhancing consumer satisfaction.

Mr. Diamond leverages his MBA in Marketing and Finance, and skills in manufacturing process improvement, new business development, and strategy, as the Principal of Diamond Consulting and Investments. In this role, he provides business strategy consulting, financing, and investing to enhance operational and revenue performance for healthcare and health technology companies.

Dr. Mustapha received her MD from the University of California San Francisco, and completed her combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency training at the University of Minnesota.  She is the Chief of Equity Strategy for M Health Fairview – the Joint Clinical Enterprise between University of Minnesota and Fairview Health Services, and an Associate Professor in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She is also a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. 

Her research focus is on equity and inclusion in assessments – from the way we assess learners and educators in the clinical learning environment, to the way we assess care systems. She has presented internationally on a broad array of topics related to the advancement of Health Equity, and has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Sickle Cell Foundation Health Equity Champion award, the University of Minnesota Distinguished Mentoring award, and the Mullen-Spector-Tuax Women’s Leadership award. 

Brian Muthyala, MD, MPH, is an internal medicine physician and Hospitalist that maintains clinical interests in hospital medicine, global health, internal medicine and medical advocacy. Dr. Muthyala is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Division of General Internal Medicine for the University of Minnesota Medical School.

He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his residency training at the University of Minnesota Internal Medicine and Pediatrics program. His is involved in the Global Health Pathway and is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Hospitalist. His clinical interests involve global medicine, resident medical education, medical advocacy, and the interplay between the humanities and medicine.

Dr. Rothenberger received her MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of Minnesota.  She served as Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program for 8 years and continues to be active in medical education.  She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the U of MN and an infectious disease/HIV clinician at the Minneapolis VA.

Dr. Rothenberger developed an interest in burnout prevention early on in her career and has been open about her own struggles with mental health and burnout.  She has been an advocate for addressing systems issues that contribute to burnout and has helped numerous trainees and faculty navigate career challenges.  More recently, she has been using storytelling to reflect on the human side of medicine; her work has been featured on several podcasts including Disrupt Yourself, Doctor Plus, and The Nocturnists.

Dr. Tignanelli is an Acute Care Surgeon at the University of Minnesota providing trauma, emergency surgery, critical care, and ECMO care for critically ill patients. He is triple board-certified in General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Clinical Informatics. His research focuses on the development and validation of machine learning and AI-enabled decision support systems as well as the implementation, user-centered design, and scaling of interoperable clinical decision support tools. He is the current dyad director of the University of Minnesota Center for Outcomes, Quality, Delivery and Evaluation (C-QODE). He is the current co-Director of the Federated Computer Vision in Healthcare U.S. Collaborative and faculty in the UMN Institute for Health Informatics' Natural Language Processing research lab. In 2021, he was named a "Health Care Hero" by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal for his innovative use of AI and informatics to improve healthcare for patients with COVID-19.