Our Faculty

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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

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Administrator Info
Name: Colleen Doyle
Email: doyl0050@umn.edu

Summary
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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Administrator Info

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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Administrator Info
Name: Colleen Doyle
Email: doyl0050@umn.edu
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 603, Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Dr. Eric Bomberg is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Core Faculty Member for the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He earned his Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his Medical Degree from the University of Southern California. He then completed a residency in Medicine/Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, followed by fellowships in both Adult Endocrinology and Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). In addition, he completed a Masters in Clinical Research at UCSF.
Dr. Bomberg is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine, and has sub-specialty certification in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism from the American Board of Internal Medicine. His initial interest in pediatric obesity was motivated by his personal struggle with this disease and subsequent 90-pound weight loss during adolescence. His early research focused on the actions of neuropeptides and their effects on feeding and metabolism, while his later research has focused on the use of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy in children and adolescents with pediatric obesity. In addition, he has become interested in precision medicine approaches for the treatment of pediatric obesity, with a specific focus on discovering person-specific characteristics predicting response to anti-obesity interventions.

Research Summary

Pharmacogenomics of Obesity Therapy

Clinical Summary

Pediatric and Adult Obesity

Bio

Dr. Boucher graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He then completed his internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the University of Minnesota, followed by his pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

He joined the University of Minnesota faculty as Assistant Professor of pediatric hematology in the Department of Pediatrics in 2019. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine. His specific interests include inherited hemoglobinopathies, especially sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia, and addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues in clinical care. He sees pediatric patients with a wide range of hematologic disorders including red cell disorders, cytopenias, and marrow failure disorders.

In the Department of Medicine, he directs the SCD program with a focus on addressing care gaps for adolescents and young adults with SCD and other red cell disorders. In doing so, his goal is to build a lifespan approach to red cell disorders, particularly SCD, and strengthen our clinical care approach and research expansion.

Dr. Boucher's research includes improving patient-centered outcomes and community awareness for individuals with hemoglobinopathies like SCD and thalassemias. He also conducts research focused on addressing health inequities in clinical care, hematologic and otherwise. He is engaged in medical education for non-malignant hematology and in curriculum development around social determinants of health.

Administrator Information

Rick Jacobson
Administrative Phone: 612-626-5501
Administrative Email: rickj@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-624-3913

 

Research Summary

Bleed and Clotting Disorders Anemia Platelet disorders Sickle Cell Disorder Thalassemia

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Clinical Summary

Bleed and Clotting Disorders; Anemia; Platelet disorders; Sickle Cell Disorder; Thalassemia

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If you would like to schedule an appointment with Dr. Boull, please call:
Pediatric Dermatology - (612) 365-6777
Adult Dermatology - (612) 625-5656

Research Summary

Cutaneous findings in Fanconi Anemia

Teaching Summary

Resident continuity clinic preceptor Clinical instructor Lecturer

Clinical Summary

Adult and pediatric skin disease

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Administrator Info
Name: IDIM Division Support
Phone: 612-624-9996
Fax: 612-625-4410
Email: IDIMdivision@umn.edu
Mail: Microbiology Research Building, 1st floor mail room, MMC 2821, 689 23rd Ave S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Dr. Boulware is an infectious disease physician-scientist with formal training in clinical trials, public health, and tropical medicine. Dr. Boulware combines his clinical research with nested basic science investigations into disease pathogenesis to conduct translational research. His primary research interests are in meningitis in resource-limited areas including diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and quality improvement initiatives incorporating cost-effectiveness analyses in order to translate knowledge into improved care. Dr. Boulware's current research is focused on improving the clinical outcomes of HIV-infected persons with cryptococcal meningitis, the second most common AIDS-defining opportunistic infection in Sub-Saharan Africa and the most common cause of adult meningitis. Additionally, Dr. Boulware has been motivated to improve the diagnostics for TB meningitis, and now that TB meningitis can be promptly diagnosed, to also improve the treatment of tuberculous meningitis. Dr. Boulware leads a multidisciplinary, international research team with active research collaborations with partners in Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Brazil, Botswana, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Research Summary

Reducing HIV-related mortality in people living with AIDS Improving Diagnostics for Meningitis Improving treatments for Cryptococcal meningitis and TB meningitis Preventing avoidable deaths due to subclinical cryptococcosis Clinical Trials for novel meningitis therapeutics and strategies Quality improvement initiatives to improve survival in resource-limited settings Antimicrobial resistance in low and middle income countries Research Projects: Improving Diagnostics and Neurocognitive Outcomes in HIV/AIDS-related Meningitis (R01 NS086312) Phased Implementation of a Public Health Programme: Cryptococcal Screening and Treatment in South Africa. ( R01AI118511) Operational Research for Cryptococcal Antigen Screening (ORCAS) of HIV Patients (U01AI125003) Infectious Disease Training in Clinical Investigation (T32AI055433) Encochleated Oral Amphotericin for Cryptococcal Meningitis Trial TB Meningitis: Evaluating CSF Immunology to Discover Hidden Disease and Potential Immunomodulatory Therapies Redefining Tuberculosis Meningitis with Metagenomics and Host Transcriptomics NIH ACTIV-6 COVID Platform Trial

Clinical Summary

Central nervous system infections; AIDS-related opportunistic infections; Tropical medicine; Travel medicine; Cost Effectiveness

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

Summary
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.

Teaching Summary

Medical student and resident teaching

Clinical Summary

Obesity Treatment and prevention; Anti-obesity pharmacotherapy

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Calla Brown is an internist and pediatrician with clinical and research interests that include primary care, care of complex chronic medical conditions in children and adults, community health, and health justice. Her interest in these topics was cemented during her service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 2003-2005. In her current position she practices med/peds primary care at a local community health center and is the new medical director of YAP [Youth and AIDS Projects] in the Twin Cities.

Research Summary

Dr. Brown is specifically interested in the intersection of health, human rights, and immigration/migration as well as community health and health justice.

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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

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

Summary
Dr. Adriana Dhawan is an internal medicine/pediatrics hospitalist, a graduate from the University of Minnesota. Originally from New Mexico, Minnesota's well-developed global health curriculum drew her to the Midwest, where she plans to practice with a focus on hospital-based medicine and international health.

Research Summary

Global Health Education; Clinical Medicine

Teaching Summary

Tanzania International Medicine Site Director; UMMC Inpatient Process of Care Clerkship Director

Clinical Summary

Hospital Medicine; Global Health

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Dr. Jessica Hane is an internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist. She attended the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and completed her internal medicine and pediatrics residency training at the University of Minnesota.

Research Summary

Physician Advocacy Medical education Health disparities

Clinical Summary

Hospital Medicine; Addiction Medicine

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Administrator Info
Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@umn.edu

Summary
Dr. Brian Hilliard has a specific interest in health disparities and health policy. He is actively involved in promoting physician advocacy. His current projects include studying the impact of medicaid expansion on high utilizers and training physicians for advocacy and community engagement.

Research Summary

Health Disparities

Clinical Summary

Hospital Medicine

Bio

Abraham Jacob, MD, MHA, joined the Department of Pediatrics in 2005 to start and direct the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. The Division has grown substantially since 2005 and has become the largest service for admissions at M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital (UMMCH). The program currently provides inpatient pediatric services at UMMCH, Fairview Ridges Hospital, Maple Grove Hospital, and Shriners. Dr. Jacob served as Chief Medical Officer for UMMCH from 2012-2019 with a focus on patient safety, quality, and patient experience. He is now the Chief Quality Officer for MHealth Fairview and a a staff attending on the General Pediatrics service at UMMCH and on the Internal Medicine service at UMMC.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Jacob went on to medical school at the University of Toledo College of Medicine where he graduated in 1994. He went on to complete his Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics residency at the University of Minnesota in 1998. After completing residency, he helped to start the first combined Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics practice in the Twin Cities with five of his residency classmates and served as medical director of the clinic. Since coming to the University of MN as faculty, Dr. Jacob's main interests have included resident education, family centered care, quality improvement, and patient safety. He helped to lead an initiative at UMMCH that recently won the MN Hospital Association 2015 Patient Safety Improvement Award. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine.

Administrator Information

Kathleen Jost
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: Kathleen.Jost@fairview.org
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

Bio

Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Chief resident of internal medicine.

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Dr. Kelly is a Professor of Pediatrics, the Minnesota American Legion and Auxiliary Chair in Children’s Health, and the Co-Director of the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has more than 20 years of experience conducting clinical trials for the treatment of pediatric obesity and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers on this and related topics. Dr. Kelly’s NIH-funded research program focuses primarily on treatments targeting the underlying biology of obesity, such as pharmacotherapy and metabolic/bariatric surgery, with the goal of enhancing clinical outcomes in youth struggling with this chronic, refractory, and relapsing disease. Other areas of focus include identifying predictors of treatment response and strategies to improve weight loss maintenance. He is actively involved in spearheading numerous initiatives related to pediatric obesity treatment in the United States and internationally and serves in various leadership positions within The Obesity Society.

Administrator Information

Juanita Jensen
Administrative Phone: 612-626-2349
Administrative Email: cpom@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-301-6645

Bio

Dr. Michael Kim joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics as a hospitalist after completing his bachelor's degree, Medical School, and residency training at the University of Minnesota. Additionally, Dr. Kim did his residency at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Programs. From 2005-2006, Dr. Kim served as Chief Resident in Pediatrics. A member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Kim also has extensive international experience having completed a global health course in tropical medicine at the University of Minnesota, and an elective rotation in internal medicine and pediatrics at Chiang Mai University Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Dr. Kim is a Pediatric hospitalist at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital and will work with Dr. Abe Jacob on improving inpatient care delivery and building the general pediatric inpatient service.

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Dr. Krohn is an internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. She completed medical school and residency here in internal medicine and pediatrics. She completed the Stanford University - NBC News Fellowship in Global Health and Media in 2013 and spent two years working with Health Frontiers in Laos, teaching in the country's internal medicine and pediatric residency programs. Dr. Krohn believes everyone should be equipped with the tools they need to understand their health and to make healthy choices. As the Director of Online Content for our Global Medicine Program, Dr. Krohn works to ensure that providers know how to care for people from diverse backgrounds including underrepresented minorities, immigrants, and refugees right here in Minnesota. As the "thread" lead for medical communications with lay audiences in our Becoming a Doctor course for third and fourth-year medical students, Dr. Krohn teaches students strategies to improve their ability to talk with anyone about their health.

Research Summary

Medical Education How people outside of the field of medicine learn about medicine Medical Journalism

Clinical Summary

Global Health; Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine; Pediatrics; Refugee/Migration Health

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Dr. Lee finished her Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of Minnesota and is excited to serve as one of the global health chief residents this year, 2021-2022. She became interested in health inequities and the intersections between health, education, and policy after opportunities to volunteer at Chicago public schools during college which led to a year of AmeriCorps service in Houston, TX. This led to her MPH training which helped her develop skills and interest in epidemiology and public health data analysis. During residency, the global health community at the University of Minnesota brought many opportunities to learn more about global health and working with refugee populations present in the Twin Cities. She has worked on projects investigating how to further improve healthcare that we provide for Limited English Proficiency patients, specifically in regards to working with interpreters.

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Dr. McCabe has been University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health faculty since 1995 and the program director of the Mankato family medicine residency program since 2003. His interests and expertise include resident medical education, sustainable practice, finding one’s passion within broad spectrum family medicine, rural medicine, geriatrics, and office-based procedures.

Clinical Summary

Rural family medicine, office dermatology procedures, colposcopy, and OB ultrasound.

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Administrator Info
Name: Mena Vue
Phone: 612-624-3189
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Mail: 420 Delaware St SE
MMC 284 Mayo
8284B (Campus Delivery Code)
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Dr. Mustapha went to University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and then completed her internal medicine and pediatric residency training at the University of Minnesota. She spent a year as Chief Resident in the Department of Pediatrics prior to joining the faculty in both the departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, as a clinician educator and hospitalist. She is currently the Associate Program Director of the Med-Peds Residency Program and the Director of Clinical Coaching for the medical school. Her academic interests include both undergraduate and graduate medical education, with a focus on clinical performance and equity, diversity, and inclusion in the clinical learning environment.

Clinical Summary

Hospital medicine; Medical Education; Health Equity

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Jennifer Needle is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Critical Care and Bioethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She earned her MD from Howard University in Washington DC, and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Needle completed her residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at the University Hospitals of Cleveland/Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her fellowship in Biomedical Ethics at the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Needle joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2013 after six years as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, at Oregon Health & Science University. She is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Critical Care and the American Board of Pediatrics. Her academic work focuses on palliative and end-of-life care communication in critical illness. She has been a PI or co-I on grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society studying Adolescent and Young Adult Advance Care Planning in Cancer and Bone Marrow Transplant. Her work has been published in Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Palliative Medicine, and The Journal of Clinical Ethics.

Administrator Information

Jon Burke
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: jpburke@umn.edu

Research Summary

Dr. Needle's research focuses on adolescent and young adult (AYA) advance care planning (ACP) for patients with cancer. She is funded by the American Cancer Society, the Children's Cancer Research Fund, and the National Institute on Nursing Research (NIH). Dr. Needle is utilizing the FACE (Family Centered Advance Care Planning) intervention in patients with cancer and in patients undergoing bone marrow transplants. The goals are to 1) improve congruence between patients and their surrogates in goals of care, 2) assess the impact of the intervention on patient-caregiver-health care provider communication, and 3) to determine the role of AYA ACP on provider moral distress related to end-of-life care.

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Administrator Info
Name: Kelly Denno
Phone: 612-301-3285
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE
MMC 284
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Dr. Nixon is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He serves as the director of the Essentials of Clinical Medicine as well as the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completed his residency training at the University of Minnesota, where he was also Chief Resident. His interests include medical education, physical diagnosis and evidence based medicine.

Clinical Summary

Evidence-based medicine; Internal medicine; Medical Education; Pediatrics; Physical diagnosis

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@umn.edu
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE
MMC 741
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Andrew Olson, MD, FACP, FAAP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he practices Hospital Medicine and Pediatrics. He serves as the Head of the Section of Hospital Medicine and Director of Hospital Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

Dr. Olson’s academic work focuses on understanding and improving clinical reasoning and decreasing diagnostic error as well as strategies to improve clinical reasoning performance through feedback in the clinical environment. He has led or participated in multiple national and international projects focused on improving diagnosis and health professions education.

Dr. Olson also serves as the Director of Medical Education Research and Innovation at the Medical Education Outcomes Center within the Medical School, focusing on linking educational with clinical and workforce outcomes in health professions education. He serves as the Chair of the Education Committee of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

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Administrator Info
Name: Mena Vue
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189
Mail: Comm-Univ Health Care Center (CUHCC)
2001 Bloomington Avenue S
7851A (Campus Delivery Code)
Minneapolis, MN 55404

Summary
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

Bio

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

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.

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Jill Charles
Email: jcharles@umn.edu
Mail: 717 Delaware Street SE
Suite 166
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Summary
Dr. Rogers is an Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with an appointment in the Applied Clinical Research Program. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. After finishing her residency training at the Harvard Brigham and Women's Hospital/Boston Children's Hospital program, she completed the Primary Care Research Fellowship at UCSF. Her interests include socioeconomic and ethnicity-based disparities and chronic disease risk, supporting patients in prevention and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, health coaching and peer education, implementation science, and community-engaged research.

Bio

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

Summary
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

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Jill Lane
Email: jdlane@umn.edu
Mail: 426 Church Street SE
Room 485C
MMC 501
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Brian Sick, MD is an Associate Professor and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota where he completed a dual residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He is originally from Rochester, New York where he completed both his bachelor's and medical degrees at the University of Rochester. His academic interests include interprofessional education, history of medicine, chronic care medicine and clinical quality improvement. His clinical interests include preventative medicine and primary care for the whole family.

Clinical Summary

Internal medicine; Pediatrics; Preventative medicine; Primary Care

Bio

Dr. Stauffer is working with Indiana University as Executive Field Director for the Kenya AMPATH program until January 31, 2024. Learn more here

Administrator Info
Name: IDIM Division Support
Phone: 612-624-9996
Fax: 612-625-4410
Email: IDIMdivision@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

• 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

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. 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

Dr. Thielen is a physician-scientist trained in adult and pediatric infectious diseases. She joined the faculty in pediatrics in 2020 and is developing a translational research program focused on the molecular epidemiology and viral pathogenesis of human respiratory viral infections including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. She also has interests in clinical immunology, the role that host genetic variation plays in the response to infectious diseases, and the global burden of respiratory infections.

Administrator Information

Sandra Streff
Administrative Phone: 612-626-5637

Research Summary

Dr. Thielen has clinical and research interests in the pathogenesis of respiratory viruses, including influenza viruses and respiratory syncytial virus. She will be continuing work started during her fellowship with Dr. Ryan Langlois (Microbiology) studying differences in the innate immune response to these viruses in primary human cells. She also has clinical interests in other infections of immunocompromised patients, clinical immunology, and travel medicine.

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@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

Bio

Administrator Info
Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@umn.edu 
Mail: 420 Delaware St SE, MMC 741, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Dr. Wyman is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota Medical School, and completed residency training in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wyman currently practices hospital medicine at the University of Minnesota for adults and pediatrics as well as at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Pediatrics. In addition to clinical duties, she is the Director for Resident Ultrasound Education for the U of MN Internal Medicine Residency Programs. Her additional interests include global health, health disparities, medical education, and medical ethics. In her free time Dr. Wyman practices martial arts and spends times with her family.

Research Summary

• Medical Education
• Point of Care Ultrasound
• Global Health

Teaching Summary

• Introduction to Ultrasound
• Advanced Ultrasound Elective

Clinical Summary

• Evidence-based medicine
• Pediatric to Adult transitions of care
• Quality of Life
• Asthma
• Resident and Medical Student Education