Hospital Medicine Faculty

Bio

Administrative Contact
Name: Denise Jackson
Email: jacksond@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189
Mail: Mayo Memorial Building, 420 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Born and raised in Minnesota and studied at the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Managed outpatient care in an underserved area of Northern California for two years and now returning to Minnesota to work as a MedPeds Hospitalist and focus on undergraduate/graduate medical education and mentorship. Board certified in Internal Medicine (2018) and Pediatrics (2018)

Clinical Summary

• Education
• Inpatient/Outpatient Transitions
• Communication

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Ashley Fuchs
Phone: 612-624-0999
Fax: 612-625-2174
Email: fuchs@umn.edu

Summary
During Dr. Akingbola's clinical sleep medicine fellowship at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, he focused on sleep-related disordered breathing, parasomnias, and other sleep disorders including insomnia and RLS. He co-authored a book chapter on the diagnosis of Narcolepsy complicated by Bipolar Disorder and submitted a case report on the multidisciplinary approach to caring for a patient with Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome. Additionally, he taught medical students and residents during their clinical rotation in Sleep Medicine. He also presented at the IMED session for the Internal Medicine Residence on Sleep Disordered Breathing.

Research Summary

• Cardiopulmonary physiology and sleep-related breathing disorders
• Sleep & Athletic Performance
• Intersection of Sleep Medicine and Hospital Medicine

Creative Activity Summary

• Cardiopulmonary physiology

• Sleep Related Breathing Disorders

• Medical Education

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Denise Jackson
Phone: 612-624-3189
Email: jacksond@umn.edu

Summary
After my chief residency at the University of Minnesota, I stayed on the faculty for about 5 years. I had always been interested in a small town practice and left to start a practice in Shakopee that included a lot of hospital work. After doing that for about 15 years, I joined the hospitalist group at North Memorial Hospital in Minneapolis for 8 years which included taking care of many very complicated and critical patients. I have worked extensively in multiple ERs throughout Minnesota early in my career and love the unpredictability and intensity of those patients in addition to taking care of patients who are in the intensive care unit (ICU). I am excited to join the Department of Medicine again to work with the residents as after practicing internal medicine in a large variety of settings, I think I have had a broad swath of experience and knowledge to pass on to residents and students in the dawn of their careers.

Teaching Summary

• Critical thinking and analysis of the diagnostic approach to complicated patients

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Denise Jackson
Email: jacksond@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189

Summary
I completed medical school at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, VA and completed my residency in internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, VA. Throughout my training and career, I have taken part in numerous global health trips to countries including Honduras, Dominican Republic, Jordan, and Zimbabwe.

Research Summary

• Global health
• Long-term effects of short-term medical missions

Teaching Summary

• Bedside teaching of medical students and residents

Clinical Summary

• Hospital medicine
• global health
• health disparities
• underserved care

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Denise Jackson
Email: jacksond@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189

Summary
Evan Beacom earned his medical degree from Des Moines University in 2018 and completed training in Internal Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in 2021. Dr. Beacom has interests in philosophy of medicine, medical education including medical decision-making, and improving hospital based medicine.

Research Summary

Philosophy of medicine; Clinical Judgment; Professionalism

Teaching Summary

Graduate and undergraduate medical education

Clinical Summary

Patient-clinician relationship; Pulmonary Medicine; Infection Prevention; Iatrogenesis

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Mena Vue
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 741, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Dr. Bertelsen graduated from medical school at the University of Minnesota in 2007 and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine (primary care track) at Weill Cornell Medical Center / New York Presbyterian Hospital in 2010, where he also served as an Ambulatory Chief Resident. He has a B.A. in government / international relations from Georgetown University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Global Mental Health from Harvard University, and a Masters of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MScPH). He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, where he works as a hospitalist.

From 2010 to 2019, he served on the faculty in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Population Health at New York University School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment at New York University College of Global Public Health, and he worked as a hospitalist, primary care physician, and clerkship director at Bellevue Hospital. During this time, he served as Director of Primary Care for the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture in New York; founding director of the core communication and clinical skills training program at Koc University School of Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey; Adviser for Research and Training for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Istanbul mission;. MPH course director in refugee health at the NYU campus in Florence, Italy; migrant health education coordinator at the Institute for Global Health in Barcelona, Spain; and served on the Board of Directors of the Central American Healthcare Initiative (CAHI) at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

He came to the University of Minnesota to join the Global Medicine group in the Department of Medicine. After serving as Director of Education for the International Panel Physicians Association, he now serves as Faculty Collaborator for the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC-RIM) at UMN, and Director of Partnerships for the UMN Clinical Tropical Medicine and Global Health (CTMGH) curriculum.

Research Summary

Medical Education; Resilience in Forced Migration

Teaching Summary

Refugee Health; Cross-Cultural Communication Skills; Public Health Leadership

Clinical Summary

Medical Education; Migrant and Refugee Health; Cross-Cultural Communication Skills; Resilience Factors

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Mena Vue
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189

Summary
I attended medical school at A.T. Still University where I also completed a one-year pre-doctoral fellowship in osteopathic manipulative medicine. I completed internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and a one-year fellowship in point-of-care ultrasound at Oregon Health and Science University. My professional interests include narrative medicine, bedside ultrasound, and teaching residents/students.

Research Summary

• Point-of-Care Ultrasound
• Medical Education

Teaching Summary

• Bedside Ultrasound

• Clinical Reasoning

• Interpersonal Dynamics

Clinical Summary

• Bedside Ultrasound

• Internal Medicine

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Denise Jackson
Email: jacksond@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189

Summary
Interests include patient education and transitions of care.

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Mena Vue
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189

SummaryDr. Byrd is a University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of Medicine and general medicine hospitalist. He also holds an Affiliate Faculty appointment at the Institute for Health Informatics. Dr. Byrd attended medical school at the University of New Mexico and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University, where he subsequently completed an academic hospital medicine fellowship and earned his master's in health and biomedical informatics. Dr. Byrd studies the adoption, adaptation, and acceptance of health information technologies in clinical care settings. His research focuses on the human-computer interface of clinical decision support systems, including machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. His teaching interests include diagnostic reasoning, Bayesian testing approaches, and digital technology fluency.

Teaching Summary

Data Science; Biostatistics

Clinical Summary

Heart Failure; Obesity; Substance Use Disorder

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Denise Jackson
Email: jacksond@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE, D-612 Mayo Memorial Building, MMC 741, Minneapolis, MN 55455 

Summary
Tim Capecchi is a Med-Peds hospitalist with interests in medical education, health advocacy, and health disparities.

Teaching Summary

Health Advocacy; Transgender Healthcare

Clinical Summary

Transgender Health; Community Acquired Pneumonia; Alcohol Dependence

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Mena Vue
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189

Summary
I've done my training in both public health and medicine all at the University of Minnesota. I am interested in undergraduate/graduate medical education as well as population health research.

Teaching Summary

Communication; Bedside teaching; Inpatient medicine

Clinical Summary

Transition of care out of the hospital