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Mail: Institute for Health Informatics
420 Delaware St. SE
MMC 912
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Name: Colleen Doyle
Email: doyl0050@umn.edu

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Dr. Aylward went to New York University School of Medicine and then completed his internal medicine and pediatric residency training at the University of Minnesota. He spent a year as chief resident at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System where he oversaw residents and ran teaching conferences. He currently is the Program Director for the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency program. His academic interests include the practical application of technology to patient care, medical education, advocacy, and writing.

Clinical Summary

• Treatment of opioid use disorder, medical education, advocacy, health equity, and racial justice
• Medical Education
• Community Health
• Quality and Process Improvement
• Medical Informatics

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Name: Colleen Doyle
Email: doyl0050@umn.edu

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Dr. Barnes is an associate professor and licensed clinical psychologist specializing in eating and weight disorders. Her programmatic line of research focuses on designing and testing the dissemination of specialty care weight-loss and eating disorders treatments into primary care, including nutrition counseling, motivational interviewing (MI), and cognitive-behavioral therapy, and interrelated studies examining individuals struggling with overweight/obesity, disordered eating, and related sequelae such as body image, metabolic syndrome, mood and anxiety, and weight loss surgery. Prior to her current appointment, she was an associate research scientist with the Program for Obesity, Weight, and Eating Research at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Barnes provides outpatient clinical services to the Primary Care Clinic, the Multidisciplinary Weight Management team, and inpatient consultation on medical units at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. She has served as a peer-reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and numerous journals.

Research Summary

• overweight
• obesity
• binge-eating disorder
• loss of control eating following weight loss surgery
• metabolic syndrome
• body image

Teaching Summary

• General Psychology
• Abnormal Psychology

Clinical Summary

• overweight
• obesity
• binge-eating disorder
• loss of control eating following weight loss surgery
• metabolic syndrome
• body image
• anxiety
• weight loss surgery assessment

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Name: Shannon Sawyer
Phone: 612-625-9995
Email: sawy0076@umn.edu

Dr. Benson currently serves as Chief Academic Officer for the MHealth-FV Academic Health System reporting to the Dean of the Medical School. He is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University Medical School and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He completed training in Med-Peds here at the University of Minnesota and subsequently served as Residency Program Director of his former program for the 10 years spanning 2002-2012. During that time he led the national Med-Peds Program Directors' Association as its President from 2008-9. Dr. Benson served as the Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine from 2009 to 2018, during which time the Division grew from 25 to 60 faculty members with major expansion of the research and scholarship portfolio. Additionally, in 2011, he started the Hospital Medicine Program and served as the Executive Medical Director here until 2018. Dr. Benson's interests include Hospital Medicine; Primary Care for adults and children; care of adolescent and adult survivors of childhood cancer; and Milestone based competency assessment across the continuum of medical education; and integration of clinical research into a Learning Health System framework.

Creative Activity Summary

Community Engagement
1. Advisor for Leadership Strike Team and Volunteer Physician, Medical Reserve Corps, University of Minnesota
a. MN Lifeline – Katrina Deployment Wave 1 – 2005
b. 1-35 Bridge Collapse Response – 2007
c. Large Regional Full-Scale Exercise - test response capabilities following a structural collapse in downtown Minneapolis - 2013
2. Volunteer Preceptor, Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, Minneapolis, MN.
a. Precepted at student run clinic
b. About every 2-3 months between 2002-2009
3. Volunteer Disaster Relief Physician
a. Haiti Earthquake, 2010

Clinical Summary

Primary Care; Long-Term Follow-up Care After Childhood Cancer; Hospital Medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine; Medicine on the Internet

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Name: Colleen Doyle
Email: doyl0050@umn.edu

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I’ve been working for the past 6 years at the Fairview Wyoming clinic in primary care and as the pulmonary rehab program medical director. My special clinical interests include hormone therapy for transgender and nonbinary patients, pharmacogenetic testing mostly for psychiatric medications, and medical cannabis certification. Before medical school, I went to graduate school for genetics, which remains an area of research interest for me. I haven’t been too involved in research while working in community practice, but I did participate in a clinical study looking at pharmacogenetics of hypertension medications. I’ve precepted a handful of medical and NP students in clinic over the past few years, and I look forward to getting more involved in teaching in my new position.

Teaching Summary

Expanding education on care of transgender patients

Clinical Summary

Care of LGBT patients; Women’s Health

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Name: Amy Wang
Email: ausen018@umn.edu

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Name: Jill Charles
Phone: 612-624-0468
Email: jcharles@umn.edu

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Dr. Bramante's research focuses on remotely delivered interventions to improve health in children and adults with overweight and obesity. This research includes remotely delivered clinical trials that assess interventions that may prevent severe COVID-19 and Long-COVID (covidout.umn.edu). Dr. Bramante also researches ways to assist daily health management at home, such as weight management interventions for children and adults seeking obesity treatment. Dr. Bramante sees patients in the comprehensive pediatric and adult weight management clinics. The M Health Fairview Comprehensive Weight Management Clinic treats each patient individually, acknowledging that obesity and weight loss are very complicated. Both clinics offer medication management, which is often indicated to address dysregulated pathways in the energy-regulatory systems that lead to excess weight so that lifestyle changes can be effective.

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Teaching Summary

Medical student and resident teaching

Clinical Summary

Obesity Treatment and prevention; Anti-obesity pharmacotherapy

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Name: Amy Wang
Email: ausen018@umn.edu

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Name: Jill Charles
Phone: 612-624-0468
Email: jcharles@umn.edu
Fax: 612-626-6782
Mail: 717 Delaware Street SE
Suite 166
Minneapolis, MN 55414

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Dr. Susan Everson-Rose, PhD, MPH, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Associate Director for Research in the Divison of General Internal Medicine, Associate Director of the Program in Health Disparities Research, and Director of the Health Equity Leadership and Mentoring (HELM) program at the University of Minnesota. She is trained in cardiovascular psychophysiology, behavioral medicine, stress mechanisms of disease, neuropsychology, and cardiovascular and social epidemiology. Dr. Everson-Rose's research has shown how stress, distress, emotions, personality, behavioral and socioeconomic factors contribute to morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular diseases and related conditions, greater cognitive decline, cancer-related behavioral and lifestyle risk factors, and worse health outcomes overall. Her most recent work focuses on evidence-based stress-management, and mindfulness-based interventions that can be used to effectively manage chronic disease conditions and promote healthier lifestyles in diverse settings. Dr. Everson-Rose has over 25 years' experience as an NIH-funded investigator, including on several large epidemiologic cohort studies (e.g., the Alameda County Study, the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study, the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, the Chicago Health and Aging Project, and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). Currently she is funded as a co-investigator on several NIH-funded behavioral clinical trials, two NCI-funded training programs, and as a Co-Principal Investigator on a study of MBSR with breast cancer survivors. She is an Associate Editor for Psychosomatic Medicine , and nationally and internationally regarded for her work on psychosocial risk factors for chronic diseases.

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Name: Jill Lane
Email: jdlane@umn.edu

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My scholarship focuses on communication in healthcare. I have taught at a variety of levels. My NIH funding has mostly focused on communication processes and outcomes after newborn genetic screening. My clinical expertise is primary care (and some consultation) for complex patients, especially those with genetic and functional conditions.

Research Summary

• Communication in healthcare services
• Newborn screening

Teaching Summary

• Communication
• Medical humanities/film (implications for clinical practice and ethics)
• Pharmacogenetics
• Scholarly activities for medical students and residents.

Clinical Summary

• Primary and coordinating care for complex patients, especially adolescents and young adults with genetic problems and special needs
• Pharmacogenetics
• Autonomic dysfunction

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Sophie Gladding, PhD, is the Director of Educational Research and Development in the Department of Medicine. After completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, she received her Ph.D in Education from the University of Minnesota specializing in evaluation and assessment. Following graduate school, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in medical education at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She currently collaborates on educational research focusing on educational innovations and assessment and works with the educational leadership in the department in the development and implementation of learner assessments and program evaluation. She is also a member of the Division of Global Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics. The focus of her work in Global Pediatrics is in the development and evaluation of a competency-based curriculum in global child health.

Research Summary

Current and Recent Research Support Co-investigator, NIH Fogarty Grant, Northern/Pacific Global Health Research Fellows Training Consortium Co-investigator, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, International Clinical Research Fellowships

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If you would like to schedule an appointment with Dr. Goldfarb, please call (612) 625-5656.

Dr. Noah Goldfarb graduated from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine in 2009 and completed a combined residency in internal medicine and dermatology in 2014. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Departments of Medicine and Dermatology and staff physician at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. Dr Goldfarb’s clinical interests include autoimmune skin diseases, hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and complex medically dermatology. He runs an HS clinic and combined rheum-derm clinic at University site, he is the director of inpatient dermatology consultation for the dermatology service at the VA and continues to attend as a hospitalist at the VA, working with medical students and residents. Dr. Goldfarb is also passionate about education. He is the medical student coordinator at the VA, the dermatology interest group advisor at the University of Minnesota, the Dermatology Pathophysiology Discipline Director for the Human Health & Disease 3 Course (HHD3) for second year medical students and the Residency Program Co-Director for the Combined Internal Medicine/Dermatology program.

Teaching Summary

Residency Program Co-Director for the Combined Internal Medicine/Dermatology program Dermatology Pathophysiology Discipline Director for the Human Health & Disease 5 Course (HHD5) Academic interests include Rheumatologic dermatology, hidradenitis suppurativa, complex medical dermatology, in-patient dermatology, clinical research.

Clinical Summary

It is my mission to give individualized attention and provide personalized evidence-based care to each of my patients.