Emergency Medicine: Faculty

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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.

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Dr. Erin Karl is one of the Associate Program Directors, as well as the Clerkship Director, at HCMC. She completed her medical education at the University of Minnesota Medical School, during which she served on the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) Board of Directors as the Medical Student Council Chair. Dr. Karl completed her residency training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE. She recently completed a Medical Education and Simulation Fellowship at HCMC, during which she obtained her Master of Education in the Health Professions (MEHP) from Johns Hopkins University School of Education.

Dr. Karl also just finished up a two-year term as the Director of Education on the EMRA Board of Directors, during which she served as Editor-In-Chief for the EMRA and CORD Student Advising Guide, 2nd edition. She is an active member of ACEP’s Academic Affairs and Education Committees, as well as serves as co-Team Lead for Team Scholarship on the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine’s Advising Students Committee in EM. Dr. Karl has a special interest in medical student and resident education and has extensive experience with EM-bound medical student advocacy and mentorship on a national level.

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Originally from Texas and Iowa, I moved to Minnesota for emergency medicine residency and loved it so much I had to stay for fellowship and beyond. Since then, I have focused on medical education at all levels with the student clerkship in medical toxicology, an assistant program director position in the residency, and med/tox fellowship director. Teaching is my passion and I'm so lucky to be able to do it every day.

Teaching Summary

Course director for the Medical Toxicology clerkship, 7571.

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Dr. Litell practices emergency medicine at HCMC and critical care at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He is board certified in emergency medicine, medical critical care, and neurocritical care. Drawing on his experience in pre-hospital and emergency care, he is particularly interested in resuscitation in the inpatient setting. He also closely follows the evolution of EM in Sweden, where was born and lived for several years.

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Dr. Logue completed an honors thesis and graduated from medical school at the State University of New York at Buffalo.  He was chief resident and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.  He completed his Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  He worked as an attending physician in the Emergency Department and for the Hyperbaric Medicine service at University of Pennsylvania before coming to Minnesota to lead the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare.  He has been an active status NAUI/PADI SCUBA Instructor since 1993.

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Dr. Metzger is an industry employed scientist with 30 years experience in medical device research and product development, grant funding, pre-clinical and clinical study design and execution, regulatory expertise, and key opinion leader development.  Her research focus has been in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and she is an active external research collaborator at the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute.

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Dr. Miner is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center, and is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and is the Senior Associate Editor for Electronic Publications of Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Miner conducts research in the areas of pain management, procedural sedation, altered mental status, shock, and monitoring during critical care in the Emergency Department and has numerous publications on these topics. He has edited a textbook on pain management and sedation (Emergency Pain and Sedation, Cambridge University Press, 2008) and has authored chapters about pain management, sedation, and monitoring in several other textbooks. He also conducts research in the effects of poverty on patients seen in the Emergency Department.

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Jessie Nelson, MD is a senior staff physician from the Emergency Medicine Department at Regions Hospital. She currently serves as Director of Emergency Medicine Education Research at Regions and is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She is active in the training of medical students and residents. She is also employed as an Assessment and Coaching Expert at the University of Minnesota Medical school, where she advises students and teaching faculty during a transition to competency-based medical education. She is fellowship trained in medical education and simulation and served as Physician Faculty for the HealthPartners Simulation Center for Patient Safety at Metropolitan State University for several years. Her passion is educational strategy and methodology, and she's always looking for new ways to help learners learn and teachers teach.

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Dziwe Ntaba attended medical school at Oregon Health & Science University, earned an Masters of Public Health from Harvard University, and received global health fellowship training at Columbia University. Dr. Ntaba co-founded a non-profit organization—Village Health Works—that recently opened an exemplary 150 bed teaching hospital in Burundi, East Africa. He has extensive professional experience responding to various public health emergencies in different settings. Dziwe was awarded a Bush Foundation Fellowship as an academic embed with Minneapolis Health Department’s Opioid Response Team. Ntaba is currently focused on efforts to rapidly expand access to Medication for Addiction Treatment, with attention to optimizing equity impact in the Twin Cities.

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Emergency physician, assistant medical director at Methodist Hospital Emergency Department. I am also emergency department representative for the stroke program, and co-medical director for the trauma program.

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Dr. Paetow is a board-certified Emergency Physician and practices the full scope of Emergency Medicine across all ages and backgrounds. He is also Fellowship trained in Medical Education and Simulation and has a Master’s degree in Academic medicine. His areas of interest include graduate medical education, cultural competency, and the use of simulation for quality improvement and clinical research.