Emergency Medicine: Faculty
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Felix Ankel is an emergency physician, Professor of Emergency Medicine, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at HealthPartners. HealthPartners family of care includes six hospitals, a comprehensive system of clinics and a 1,800-physician multispecialty group practice and is a partner for the University of Minnesota Medical School undergraduate and graduate education programs. Dr. Ankel is a former emergency medicine residency director and a Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award recipient given by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
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Dr. Burnett practices Emergency Medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN and Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, MN. He serves as an EMS Medical Director for several agencies in the Twin Cities East Metro. He received his medical degree from the State University of NY at Syracuse and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Prehospital Medicine at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN. He is board certified through the American Board of Emergency Medicine in both Emergency Medicine and EMS. Dr. Burnett conducts research and has published peer reviewed articles on topics including cardiac arrest, paramedic student education, prehospital sedation and airway management.
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Dr. Burns attended medical school at Kansas City University in Kansas City, MO, graduating in 2010. He concurrently completed an MBA at Rockhurst University in KC, MO as well. He completed his residency though the Ascension Health system in Metro Detroit in 2014 and has worked clinically at Fairview Ridges since 2016.
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Dr. Cole is an emergency physician and medical toxicologist at Hennepin Healthcare, and Medical Director of the Minnesota Poison Control System. His research focuses on acute poisoning, emergency pharmacology, and treatment of substance use disorders in the emergency department.
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Brian Driver is a faculty emergency physician and Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center. He has researched and published extensively on emergency airway management, including publications in JAMA, CHEST, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. He has authored numerous textbook chapters and lectured nationally and internationally on best practices for emergency airway management. He is an instructor for local airway courses and the national Difficult Airway Course.
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Dr. Stephen Dunlop is an attending physician at Hennepin County Medical Center, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Director of the Fellowship in Global Emergency Medicine with an appointment as an ASTMH certified Global Health Course Co-Director focusing on education in Ultrasound, Trauma and Simulation in resource poor settings. He has years of on the ground experience in East Africa focusing on education, research and systems development of Acute Care systems.
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HCMC ER, R-2701 South Park Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55415
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I first experienced emergency medicine as a medical student at HCMC and it changed my life! I completed training first in internal medicine then EM in the city of brotherly love than returned to my dream job at HCMC in 1996. I've had the pleasure to serve and medical student director then residency director fulfilling a career long dedication to medical education. In addition I've completed in multiple research endeavors in multiple areas from ACS to Asthma to Addiction medicine.
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I trained at the University of Minnesota and completed residency at Regions/HealthPartners Institute and am happy to be practicing at HealthPartners. I am currently the medical director at Westfields Hospital (WI) and director of operations for our Valley hospitals. I completed my MBA at UST in 2019. My professional interests include ED operations, access and flow, systemization, standardization, and quality and patient safety. I enjoy seeing patients and delivering great care as well as connecting with patients and their families. I also enjoy teaching residents and students clinically and about operations and quality improvement work.
Education
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
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640 Jackson StSt Paul, MN 55101
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John L. Hick is a faculty emergency physician at Hennepin Healthcare and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He serves as the Deputy Medical Director for Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services and Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at Hennepin Healthcare. He is also Assistant Medical Director for LifeLink III. He served the Minnesota Department of Health as the Medical Director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness from 2002-2014 and as the Manager for the COVID-19 Statewide Healthcare Coordination Center. He also currently works part-time for US Health and Human Services (HHS/ASPR) as an Advisor to the National Hospital Preparedness Program and as lead editor for the ASPR Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) website. He is an expert on hospital preparedness and crisis standards of care issues and has published over one hundred peer-reviewed papers dealing with hospital preparedness for contaminated casualties, disaster standards of care, and surge capacity. He has co-chaired or been a member of multiple National Academies of Medicine committees.
Staff
Rachel Druker, MBA
Administrator
Mary Ann McNeil, MA, NRP
Educational Research
Abbey Staugaitis, MSN, RN, CCRC
SIREN Project Manager, StrokeNet RCC Project Manager, ACRC Program Manager
Julie Scherber, RN
Research Project Specialist
Chloe Lawyer, RN
Research Nurse
Jessica Staloch, RN
Research Nurse
Megan Tessmer, RN
Research Nurse
Jessica Gieseke, RN
Research Nurse
Michele Schirmers, RN
Research Nurse
Justin Eklund
Research Coordinator
Beth Nierengarten, RN
Research Nurse
Anna Brauch
Research Coordinator
Aimee Donahue
Medical Student Program Associate
Haley Dauffenbach
Program Coordinator