Hospital Medicine Faculty

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Dr. Suman Pal completed his medical school at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India and earned his MBBS degree with Distinction in Anatomy from the University of Delhi (2015). Following this, he completed an Internal Medicine residency program from Westchester Medical Center, New York, and Medical Education Scholars program from University of New Mexico. Dr. Pal is passionate about health equity, promoting inclusivity, equity, and diversity in academic medicine. He is interested in academic medicine and medical education research.

Research Summary

Medical Education, Health Equity, DEI in medicine, LGBTQ+ health, COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

Teaching Summary

DEI, Health equity, Anti-racism in medicine

Service Summary

Awards and Recognition Received:
University of New Mexico Hospital Medicine Rush Pierce Outstanding Professionalism Award (2022)

Professional Memberships and Affiliations:
American College of Physicians; Society of Hospital Medicine

Clinical Summary

LGBTQ health, Hospital Medicine, Healthcare disparities

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Dr. Paranjpe graduated medical school in 2017 from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He went on to complete his residency in pediatrics at Western Michigan University in 2021.

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Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Dr. Cuong Pham is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He completed his residency training at the University of Minnesota in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Currently he has a mix of clinic at the Community University Health Care Center (CUHCC), which serves the underserved citizens of Minneapolis, and inpatient wards at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. He has had varying cultural experiences working abroad in Vietnam and South Africa. He also enjoys caring for the growing diverse patient population of the Twin Cities.

Clinical Summary

Immigrant health

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Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Dr. Plesac is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She earned her medical degree from Rush Medical College. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine, followed by a year as a Chief Resident, at the University of Minnesota. She completed an Editorial Fellowship for the Journal of Hospital Medicine in 2018 and has previously held teaching positions and leadership roles in undergraduate medical education. She is currently an Associate Program Director for University of Minnesota Internal Medicine residency program. She is interested in medical education, particularly clinical reasoning curriculum development and implementation. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and practices inpatient medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Center Fairview.

Research Summary

• Sepsis Education
• Clinical Reasoning

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Administrator Info
Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Hope Pogemiller, MD, MPH, CTropMed ® is an internal medicine/pediatrics hospitalist, - Assistant Professor, - and Global Health Faculty in the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine. She served as a public health volunteer in Benin (West Africa) and has continued her interest in cross-cultural healthcare in Minneapolis and abroad. She worked with St. Damien's Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the International Organization for Migration in Kampala, Uganda. Her work with refugees at the Center for International Health (as a resident) and with the IOM in Uganda led to the creation of an online medical interpreter training module for refugee settings. She worked with the Selian Hospital and Arusha Lutheran Medical Center in Arusha, Tanzania as a Global Health Chief Resident, and she served as an In-Country Clinical Lead for the trial, A Multicenter Randomized Safety and Efficacy Study of Putative Investigational Therapeutics in the Treatment of Patients with Known Ebola Infection, in Sierra Leone. Currently, she leads the inpatient portion of the BRIIDGE program (Bridge to Residency for Immigrant International Doctor Graduates through clinical Experience). With the Center of Excellence in Refugee Health, she is collaborating to update and expand CDC's screening guidelines for newly arrived refugees.

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Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Dr. Parrisha Roane is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Hospitalist at the University of Minnesota and former Chief Resident of the University of Minnesota Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Combined Residency Program. Her primary interests include advocating for health equity in medicine, inclusive healthcare systems, and learner development within medical education. She is also interested in the intersection between art and medicine, and was on the curatorial board for the Emmy-winning production "Art + Medicine: Speaking of Race."

Research Summary

• Medical Education
• Health Equity, Inclusive Healthcare Systems and Learner Spaces

Teaching Summary

• Medical Student and Resident Clinical Skills Development; Critical Thinking and Framework Development in Learners; Foundations of Clinical Thinking Facilitator (2021 - Current)
• Processes of Clinical Care Facilitator (2022 - Current)

Clinical Summary

• Complex Care of Young Adults Transitioning to Adulthood

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Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Dr. Stephen Selinsky is an Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist. He attended Michigan State College of Human Medicine and completed his internal medicine and pediatrics residency training at the University of Minnesota, followed by a Chief Residency in Pediatrics.

Research Summary

• Medical Education
• Healthcare Delivery

Clinical Summary

Refugee Health; Tropical Medicine

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Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Dr. Rena Singleton is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She earned her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and she completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota where she participated in the Clinician Educator Pathway. Dr. Singleton currently practices inpatient medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Center and is completing fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Her clinical interests include hospice and palliative medicine, hospital medicine, women's health and geriatric medicine. Her academic interests include medical student and resident education.

Clinical Summary

Hospital Medicine; Primary Care; Medical Education

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Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone: 612-624-0579
Fax: 612-624-3189

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With more than 10 years of experience as an attending hospitalist, I have established myself as an outstanding clinician with strong teaching, team building and leadership skills. I am interested in perioperative medicine and have previously played a significant role in the development and standardization of various pre-operative protocols for patients undergoing non-cardiovascular surgeries, as well as teaching medical students, internal medicine residents and PA students. My future goal is to explore the role of AI and ML in perioperative management in effecting better care for our patients.

Research Summary

• Role of AI and ML in perioperativel medicine

Teaching Summary

• Inpatient Medicine and Perioperative Medicine

Clinical Summary

• Hospital Medicine

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Administrator Info
Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Dr. Sundberg is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. He is a graduate of the Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at the Harvard Brigham and Women's Hospital/Boston Children's Hospital program. He completed additional training through the Brigham and Women's Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency, and received a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He works clinically in the Twin Cities and in Rosebud, South Dakota. His interests include global health, rural health system strengthening, health care disparities, and medical education.

Research Summary

Medical education; rural health system strengthening; health-care facility to community-linked interventions; socioeconomic and ethnic health disparities.

Teaching Summary

Global health; rural health; public health and epidemiology; health disparities-rooted interventions

Clinical Summary

Population health; evidence-based medicine; low-cost medical interventions; pediatric to adult transitions of care; resident and medical student education.

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Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189

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Dr. Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine with a Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a practicing hospitalist at the MHealth Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Dr. Surapaneni's areas of interest are impacts of climate change on health equity, sustainable healthcare delivery, and the role of physician advocacy in developing science-based policy. She is a member of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change United States Brief workgroup through the University's Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility and an associate at the Institute on the Environment.

Dr. Surapaneni has co-authored white papers on health harms of fossil fuel infrastructure, provided testimony to the Minnesota legislature on numerous occasions, and served on the Minnesota state Department of Transportation’s Sustainable Transportation Advisory Council in a governor-appointed role.

As a science communicator, she regularly speaks with media outlets about public health impacts of climate change and has been interviewed by City Pages, MPR, Associated Press, and the Guardian. Her work has been cited in print and online outlets including the Star Tribune, MN Daily and Common Dreams. She also regularly contributes opinion pieces and is Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project in partnership with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Research Summary

Areas of Interest

• Impacts of climate change on health equity
• Sustainable healthcare delivery
• Physician advocacy in developing science-based policy

Teaching Summary

Training climate justice aware clinicians; Teaching skill sets of physician legislative advocacy to medical students

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Administrator Info
Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Mail: 420 Delaware ST SE, MMC 741, Minneapolis, MN 55455