University of Minnesota-Hennepin HealthCare Clinical Informatics Fellowship
New for 2025!
The subspecialty of Clinical Informatics is an ACGME-accredited fellowship that transforms healthcare by analyzing, designing, implementing, and evaluating information and communication systems to improve patient care, enhance access to care, advance individual and population health outcomes, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship.
A recent merger of two Minneapolis clinical informatics fellowship programs has led to the creation of the University of Minnesota-Hennepin HealthCare Clinical Informatics Fellowship. As a clinical informatics fellow, you will benefit from the joining of diverse experiences of a large, multi-hospital system and an independent, urban healthcare center, both invested in informatics.
M Health Fairview informatics serves a large hospital and clinical network, and is embedded in information technology. Hennepin HealthCare is a Minnesota designated Safety Net system, with a HIMSS level 7 designation as one of the top technology utilizers among safety net systems.
By rotating at both institutions, you will have the opportunity to work in a range of applied clinical informatics projects. Curriculum includes:
- Virtual Health
- Population Health
- Health Equity
- Imaging and Laboratory data
- Clinical Decision Support
- Quality and Safety
- Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- EHR Training and Support
- Revenue Cycle
- Governance
- IT Operations
- Project Management
- Change Management
As a fellow in the program, you will also interact and collaborate with leaders in the Institute for Health Informatics and the Center for Learning Health System Sciences, allowing you to cultivate your own innovation leadership skills.
The UMN-HHC Clinical Informatics Fellowship is a two-year program that is open to graduates of residency programs in any specialty. Upon completing the program, you will be equipped to pass the clinical informatics board exam and be highly competitive for employment as a physician informaticist.
Rotation Sites
Details about rotations
Fellows complete three 17-18 week rotations with various teams from both M Health Fairview and Hennepin HealthCare.
M Health Fairview System Rotation
The University of Minnesota Medical Center, with the broader M Health Fairview Health System (Fairview Health Systems and University of Minnesota Physicians with 10 hospitals, over 70 clinics, and post-acute services), is the primary site where rotations occur. Note that while the primary teaching site for these rotations is the University of Minnesota Medical Center, fellows will rotate to other office or clinical locations as needed, with the primary building for Fairview Health Services Information Technology being located at Stinson 323.
Hennepin Healthcare
Hennepin Healthcare is one of the premier public teaching hospitals in the country. The campus, located in downtown Minneapolis, spans five city blocks and houses in-patient and ambulatory services, a Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center, numerous specialty clinics, and an ambulatory senior care clinic. As a public hospital, Hennepin Healthcare serves a multicultural patient population, including the region’s urban and underserved individuals.
Elective Time
Fellows will have the option to complete rotations focused on complete self-designated clinical informatics focuses. Elective rotations must be completed at a funded site and can be used towards a research or quality improvement project.
See Program Curriculum for further details on rotations.
Salary and Benefits
- Salary - $82,649 (year one), $85,134 (year two)
- Medical insurance, flexible spending account (FSA), retirement plan. See details.
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Twenty-one days per contract year. Designed to cover vacations, health days and unexpected absences not covered by paid leave.
- Leave
- Parental leave - upon request, a trainee may take six weeks of paid leave related to the birth, adoption, or gestational surrogacy of a child.
- Unpaid leave - may extend training; extended periods of leave available with FMLA. Other unpaid leave at program director’s discretion.
- Business expense allocation
- Up to $1,000 reimbursement per year for software, conference expenses, medical association memberships, and clinical textbooks and journals
- Moving allowance
- Up to $1,000 payment for relocation expenses
- Free parking
Contact
Mailing Address
420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Michelle Stoffel, MD, PhD, MS
Program Director
[email protected]
Justine Mrosak, MD
Associate Program Director
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Elisabeth Arendt
Program Administrator
[email protected]
Office Address
6-240 Phillips-Wangensteen Building
516 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Fellows
First Year Fellows
Chris Adams, MD, MBA, FAAFP
Medical School: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Residency: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Clinical Specialty: Family and sports medicine
CI Interests: EHR interoperability, machine learning in the direct patient clinical care setting.
Hobbies: Small electronics repair, board games, geocaching and hiking, snowshoeing.
Why Minnesota? Having worked in several clinical systems, I have learned that they all do things differently. Being in a program that is in two systems for the entire fellowship, it will help show me different approaches to similar issues within informatics. I believe this will help me navigate informatics issues regardless of where I end up after fellowship.
Gagandeep Singh Anand, MD, MPH
Medical School: International American University, St. Lucia
Residency: Loma Linda University, California
Clinical Specialty: Preventive medicine, public health & lifestyle medicine
CI Interests: I focus on integrating lifestyle medicine into informatics. I design patient education tools for EHRs. I build workflows for preventive care. I create wellness programs using data. I want to make health info more clear and accessible to address root causes to illness.
Hobbies: I enjoy cooking meals with my wife. I spend time with my family. I explore nutrition. I like traveling. I enjoy playing the tabla. Working on our passion project: thrivewellness.institute.
Why Minnesota? The program supports innovation in tech and lifestyle medicine/public health. It offers access to rich hospital systems and expert faculty. I feel at home in the Twin Cities and value the collaborative culture.
Tony Huy Nguyen, MD, MPH
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
Residency: UMN St. John Hospital Family Medicine Residency, Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program
Clinical Specialty: Family Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
CI Interests: System Design and Implementation. Database analytics. Population and Public Health informatics. Industrial applications including Medical Surveillance Systems.
Hobbies: Fishing, Rock Climbing, Exploring and spending time with family and friends.
Why Minnesota? I am from Minnesota, and it is here that I completed medical school and family medicine residency. The CHIF program at the University of Minnesota and Hennepin Healthcare will provide me with comprehensive training and broad experience within the field of clinical informatics. Given the chance to return home to be near my family and friends, as well as learn informatics from leading experts and caring faculty, I could not imagine a better place to train in clinical health informatics than here.
Second Year Fellows
Leo Arko, MD, MS, FAANS
Medical School: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
Residency: Neurosurgery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Clinical Specialty: Pediatric Neurosurgery
Cl Interests: Al integration into EHR, industry integration of external applications into EHR systems, clinical decision-making support, clinical use of machine learning models, and medical education.
Hobbies: Running, hiking, and traveling
Why Minnesota? I chose Minnesota for the opportunity to engage in a leading clinical informatics fellowship at the University of Minnesota. This program offers a robust platform for research and development with an established institute of health informatics, while also providing exposure to several large hospital systems. Additionally, the faculty is exceptional, with some members having a surgical background. On a personal level, this fellowship allows me to live close to family in the family-friendly environment of the Twin Cities. These professional and personal factors have made Minnesota an ideal choice for my fellowship.
Mikael Haeggstroem, MD
Medical School: Uppsala University, Sweden
Residency: Danbury Hospital, Connecticut
Clinical Specialty: Pathology (anatomic and clinical)
Cl Interests: Digital pathology, laboratory information systems, education
Hobbies: Spending time with family, hiking, music, reading.
Why Minnesota? It reminds me of Scandinavia. I have family here, and the fellowship program has a very experienced and engaging faculty, as well as abundant education and research opportunities across multiple sites.
Brian Lefchak, MD, MPH
Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Residency: New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center
Clinical Specialty: Pediatric emergency medicine
CI Interests: AI and machine learning, clinical decision-making support, revenue cycle applications, operational informatics, adjunct pediatric readiness support.
Hobbies: Music, piano, hiking, biking, sailing, travel.
Why Minnesota? This program offers a unique opportunity to work across two distinct health systems, engage with innovative informatics use cases, and expand my clinical experience beyond my background mainly in pediatrics. The faculty and staff are exceptionally knowledgeable, approachable, and serve as outstanding role models. I’ve also valued the continued clinical support, which has been especially important to me.
Alumni
Melissa Gunderson, MD
2022-2024
Medical School: University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Residency: University of Minnesota
Clinical Informatics interests: Surgical informatics, data sharing collaboratives
Carly Hudelson, MD, MSc
2022-2024
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: University of Washington, Internal Medicine Residency
Clinical Informatics interests: Care delivery innovation, digital health
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