Faculty & Staff Directory
Bio
Administrator Info
Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189
Summary
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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I am the Director of International Medical Education at Hennepin Healthcare, a TB provider at Hennepin County Public Health Clinic, Vaccine Committee Co-chair, Medical Director of International Travel Medicine Clinic and General ID Clinic, and Infectious Disease provider at Hennepin Healthcare Kidney Transplant Program.
I spend approximately 12 weeks per year as an inpatient ID consultant. When not on the inpatient wards, I divide my time between the General ID clinic in the Positive Care Center, the International Travel Medicine clinic, and the Hennepin County Public Health clinic. I was previously the primary ID liaison to the Kidney transplant program at HHS, but now serve as the back-up ID liaison.
I care for mostly adults, but do see children in both the International Travel Medicine clinic and the Hennepin County Public Health TB clinic.
I am the director of the Global Health Pathway for the Internal Medicine residency at HHS.
I serve as the co-chair of the Vaccine Committee at HCMC.
I am Global Health Faculty at the University of Minnesota.
My husband is an Emergency Medicine physician at North Memorial Medical Center, now transitioning into Hospice and Palliative Medicine. We have 2 boys. We love the outdoors, music, and Minnesota sports. In my free time I also obviously love to travel! I also enjoy hiking, spending time in/on/around any type of water, reading, and food.
Research Summary
My research interests include:
- Global Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Travel Medicine
- Parasitic diseases
- Vector borne diseases
- Infections in immunocompromised patients
- Immigrant and refugee health
Bio
Administrator Info
Name: Becca Johnson
Phone: 612-624-9996
Fax: 612-625-4410
Email: joh07913@umn.edu
Mail: Mayo Memorial Building, MMC 250, 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455
Summary
Dr. William Stauffer is a Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He also holds appointments in the Pediatrics and in the School of Public Health. He is the Director of Human Migration and Health at the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility. His clinical practice is at Regions Hospital, Infectious Diseases, with an outpatient practice at the Travel and Tropical Medicine Specialty Clinic. He is an expert in travel and tropical medicine working in clinical medicine, surveillance, and policy development. Since 2005 he has served as the Lead Medical Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant Health Branch) where he works on issues of human mobility and how it effects human health (e.g. refugee & immigrant health). He Co-Directs the UMN/CDC Global Health Course and other online courses. He works extensively overseas in clinical medicine education, research and in public health in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle east. He is the director for the United Nations Migration Agency, University of Minnesota Collaborative. He is also a co-PI for a new COVID National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants. His research areas have included refugee and immigrant health issues, infectious disease surveillance, diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases, evaluations of public health programs. He acts as an advisor to the European Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and chairs an Inter-Governmental Refugee Health Work-Group aimed at aligning medical management of refugees.
Research Summary
Interests
Primary work is on infections and diseases in mobile populations including refugees, immigrants, migrants, and travelers. Currently working on prevention of importation of malaria into the United States through African VFR travelers, point-of-care diagnostics (e.g. malaria, Loa loa), soil-transmitted helminths and other neglected tropical diseases, zoonotic infections, drug pricing for neglected diseases, and cost-evaluation of public health interventions.
Research Support
Active
- Dr. Stauffer is working with Indiana University as Executive Field Director for the Kenya AMPATH program until January 31, 2024. Learn more here
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/International Organization for Migration
Goal: Building a National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants for COVID-19 prevention, contact tracing, and mitigation programs
Role: PI
Program link: https:nrcrim.umn.edu - United Nations Migration Agency (International Organization for Migration)/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Goal: Building bilateral medical capacity for refugee resettlement
Role: PI
Program Link: https:// https://globalhealthcenter.umn.edu/un-mig... - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 10/01/2015-09/31/2019
The CENTER: Centers for Excellence, a Network for Training and Epidemiology in Refugee/Newcomer Health.
Goal: Development of a Centers of Clinical, Research and Policy Excellence in Refugee Health
Role: CDC Advisor to Minnesota Grant. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NCEZID RVA-CK-14-004) Stauffer (PI) 10/01/14-09/30/19
"Reducing US malaria by testing multiple interventions in a multisite stepped wedge design".
Goal: Three center proposal (Minnesota, Washington DC, NYC-Bronx) to decrease malaria importation into the US through VFR travelers
Role: PI - Arnold Ventures
Goal: Sole-source, Off-patent Drugs in the United States: Prevalence, Pricing, and Populations Affected
Role: Co-investigator (Dr. Jon Alpern, PI)
Teaching Summary
- Global Health
Clinical Summary
Tropical medicine; Parasitology, Travel and Tropical Medicine, General Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Adult Infectious Disease
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Bio
Administrator Info
Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189
Summary
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.
Bio
Administrator Info
Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Summary
Dr. Trappey graduated from medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 2008 and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota in 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics where he works as a hospitalist. He is an Associate Director of the Medical School's Center for the Art of Medicine, and his educational and research focus are on the intersection of art and medicine--focusing particularly on reflective writing and medical creative writing. His clinical interests include hospital medicine, medical education, and global health. He is a core-faculty member for the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program and serves as the faculty adviser for the Pediatric Global Health Track site at St. Damien Hospital in Port Au Prince, Haiti.
Clinical Summary
Medical reflective writing; Medical education; Global health education
Education
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Bio
Administrator Info
Name: DHM Admin Team
Email: dhmadmin@umn.edu
Phone Number: 612-624-0579
Fax Number: 612-624-3189
Summary
Dr. Zewde is a University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of Medicine, general medicine hospitalist. He received his medical training at University of Gondar Medical School in Ethiopia and also worked as a general practitioner. He worked for the Ethiopian Ministry of health on general public health issues and was faculty at the University of Gondar. Project Manager from 2009-2011 Collaborator of University of Washington Global Health Department, Gondar College of Medicine and Health Science Gondar, Ethiopia. Educator and mentor for visiting MPH students in SCOPE Project (Strengthening Care Opportunities through Partnership in Ethiopia).Lecturer, School of Public Health from 2009-2011 at Gondar College of Medicine and Health Science Gondar, Ethiopia. He finished his Internal medicine residency at UMN in 2016 where he joined to work has a faculty within the division of general internal medicine. His areas of interests are in global health partnership.
Research Summary
- Global health partnership
- Health disparities and medical education
Teaching Summary
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Global health
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Working with FMGs
Clinical Summary
- Travel and tropical medicine
- Global health
- Hospital Medicine
Education
Professional Memberships
Staff
Sarah Sponsler, Pathway Coordinator
radic011@umn.edu
Beth Scudder, Instructional Designer
bscudder@umn.edu
Contact Us
Email: globalhealth@umn.edu
Phone: 612-626-3526