Emergency Medicine: Faculty

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Dr. Prekker completed EM/IM combined residency training at HCMC followed by a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington-Seattle.  After returning to Hennepin as faculty in 2014, he sees patients in the ED and the MICU, directs the ECMO program at HCMC, and is a clinical investigator including service on the Executive Committee of the Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group studying interventions in the ED and ICU including emergency airway mangement and ECMO.

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Dr. Puskarich is a physician scientist and practicing emergency physician, with an expertise in emergency care clinical trials and a topic expertise in hemodynamic shock, particularly sepsis. He has significant experience in the development, execution, and dissemination of investigator initiated, FDA regulated clinical trials, with a particular expertise in use of repurposed drugs for novel indications. In addition, he is responsible for oversight of the Acute Care Research Coordinator (ACRC) team, an internal service organization that provides 24/7 on-call trial coverage for time-sensitive clinical trials across the University, and who are primarily responsible for support of the NINDS/NHLBI SIREN emergency care clinical trials network for which he serves as hub MPI.

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Dr. Reardon is the Assistant 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. Dr. Reardon is an Associate Editor for the Academic Emergency Medicine Journal and reviewer for several medical journals. In addition, Dr. Reardon is an Oral Board Tester for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Reardon has authored and edited numerous medical textbooks and chapters on the topics of emergency airway management and emergency and critical care ultrasound.

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Dr. Rischall is a faculty physician at Hennepin County Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School with specific clinical expertise on environmental emergencies related to cold-exposure. She has held positions in medical student and residency education leadership, focusing on wellness initiatives related to schedule design and shift work best practices. Prior publications have focused on accidental hypothermia, temperature monitoring and circadian scheduling, and she has authored chapters on accidental hypothermia, cold-induced tissue injuries, management of increased intracranial pressure and abdominal trauma.

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Dr. Robinson is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services (EMS). He cares for patients in the Emergency Department with acute conditions as well as patients prehospital with Hennepin EMS. He has a special interest in prehospital critical care, American Indian Health, and ultrasound.

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University of Minnesota for undergraduate education with a research focus on Staphylococcus aureus exotoxin production. Graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2009. Completed Emergency Medicine Residency at UMKC - Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO in 2012. Adjunct Clinical Professor for UMKC Medical School from 2012-2016 training Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine residents. Appointed to Adjunct Assistant Professor/United Hospital Education Coordinator in 2018.

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Dr. Smith has been on the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare since 1991, and full Professor of EM since 2014, with over 160 peer-reviewed publications. He has published widely in Emergency Cardiac Care, including dozens of articles on use of troponin for rule out of acute MI, but especially on the ECG in Acute MI, including a 38-chapter book and many other chapters and textbook sections, and over 60 peer-reviewed articles. In 2008, he began writing “Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog,” a free open access site now with over 1500 posts, most highlighting complex ECG cases. It has nearly 22 million pageviews from readers around the world. His ECG insights are sufficiently insightful and cutting edge that his site has 48,000 Twitter followers and 250,000 Facebook followers. Since 2014, he has been lecturing on the “False STEMI / NonSTEMI Dichotomy,” and most recently, he and colleagues introduced the Occlusion MI paradigm as its replacement. In promoting this new paradigm, he gave the Annual Keynote “Rijlant” Lecture at the 2021 International Society of Electrocardiology, the 2022 “Kenichi Harumi” Plenary Address at the International Society of Computers in Electrocardiology, and Grand Rounds at the Mayo Clinic Department of Cardiology.

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Dr. Stellpflug is an Emergency Physician and Medical Toxicologist in the HealthPartners system. His research interests have been varied within emergency medicine, toxicology, and sports medicine.

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I enjoy caring for families of all ages. My specialty and true joy is caring for children. I teach doctors, nurses, EMS, and APPs about pediatric emergencies with particular focus on pediatric emergency airway management, neonatal resuscitation, and ultrasound in pediatric resuscitation.

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Dr. Priya Sury (she/her) practices emergency medicine to serve the most vulnerable patients in our healthcare system. She sees problems in the Emergency Department as manifestations of society's most critical issues and is passionate about our Emergency Departments’ role in improving quality of care for underserved patients across the Twin Cities and rural Minnesota and Wisconsin. She brings a creative, synergistic approach, drawing on her undergraduate majors in Anthropology and Spanish (Washington University in St. Louis) her D.Phil (PhD) in Theology (University of Oxford) to think about how interdisciplinary data can be used to meet the varied bio-psycho-social needs of our emergency department patients. She is excited to work together to transform healthcare and medical education through centering diverse patient voices.

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Dr. Tanouye is the Medical Director at University of Minnesota Medical Center-West Bank Emergency Department and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Minnesota Medical School. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and specializes in clinical operations.  His academic and educational interests surround leadership and managerial training of medical students and early career physician leaders as well as operational approaches to physician wellness. He sits on national ACEP EM Practice Management committee and Coding Nomenclature Advisory Committee.

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Dr. Taormina grew up in rural Illinois where she started her career in EMS.  Dr. Taormina completed her medical training at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, followed by University of Wisconsin where she was chief resident.  Dr. Taormina completed her EMS fellowship at Regions in 2023.  She is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and EMS.  Currently, she is employed as a clinical faculty member at Regions hospital and serves as an assistant medical director with Regions EMS.   She has special interests in EMS education, tactical EMS, sports medicine, and event medicine.

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Melissa Tschohl is a board certified emergency physician, currently practicing at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Dr. Tschohl attended medical school at the University of Minnesota and completed Emergency Medicine residency training at Regions Hospital. She additionally acted as co-medical director of the Emergency Department Observation unit for several years.

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Dr. Wagner is a board-certified Emergency Physician who has been practicing at the University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC) and Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) since completing Emergency Medicine Residency in 2017 and Ultrasound Fellowship in 2018 at HCMC. In addition to clinical care of patients in the Emergency Department (ED), Dr. Wagner helps prepare the next generation of medical providers by regularly teaching point-of-care ultrasound and Advanced Trauma Life Support. He also directs clinical informatics for the UMMC EDs and is a certified Physician Builder for the Epic electronic medical record.

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Focus on free open access medical education resources in emergency medicine and hyperbaric medicine.

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I am trained as a medical anthropologist and an emergency medicine physician with a background studying medical pluralism in and health care as a system of governance in Senegal and the United States.  I try to bring social medicine perspectives to bedside care, clinical teaching, research in health systems and community, quality improvement, and advocacy.

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Co-Lead, MPact Indigenous Health Course

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Administrator Info
Name: Kathy Vang
Email: vang3630@umn.edu
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE
MMC 508 Mayo
8508A (Campus Delivery Code)
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Born in London, UK, Dr. Yannopoulos received his M.D. from the University of Athens in Greece. He completed his medicine residency and general-cardiology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Following an interventional-cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Yannopoulos joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 2008. In March 2010, he became the research director for interventional cardiology.Dr. Yannopoulos is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology. His clinical interests include emergent cardiac care, coronary-artery disease, and congenital and peripheral intervention.Dr. Yannopoulos's research involves cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hypothermia, and myocardial salvage during acute coronary syndromes. He is considered an authority in cardiorespiratory interactions and hypothermia during CPR. His work in the laboratories of Dr. Keith Lurie (at the University of Minnesota) and Dr. Henry Halperin (at Johns Hopkins University) has helped change current CPR practices.Dr. Yannopoulos is a member of the American Heart Association's CPR guidelines-writing committee, and of the basic life support and research working-group subcommittees. He also serves on the organization committee for the AHA's Resuscitation Science Symposium (ReSS), the largest international conference addressing CPR and emergent cardiac/trauma care.Dr. Yannopoulos is the recipient of two American Heart Association Young Investigator awards (2005 and 2008), and has received AHA and NIH grant support for his work in CPR devices designed to improve bloodflow and clinical outcomes.

Clinical Summary

• Coronary artery disease and intervention
• CPR
• Interventional cardiology
• Peripheral vascular disease
• Resuscitation
• Structural heart disease