Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
The one-year Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship program at the University of Minnesota trains our fellows to be expert hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) clinicians who will serve our community with empathy, cultural humility, and intellectual curiosity by caring for those affected by serious illness at all stages and ages as a resilient member of an interprofessional team.
TRAINING
Training includes broad-based exposure to both adult palliative medicine in community and academic settings with well-established interdisciplinary palliative care teams.
The fellowship is a one-year program accredited by the ACGME and boasts a 100% board pass rate.
Clinical Settings
University of Minnesota Medical Center
- Inpatient consult service
- Quaternary care center
- ECMO program, LVAD program, BMT, solid organ transplant
- Hennepin County safety net teaching hospital
- Serves patients from diverse social, cultural, and economic backgrounds
- Collaborative interdisciplinary consult team
- Opportunity to work with other learners
- Inpatient consult service
- Level 1 trauma center
- Large Hospice
M Health Palliative Care Clinic
- Fellow continuity clinic in adult track
- Embedded in the cancer center
- Referrals from cardiology, pulmonology, and neurology
- Palliative Care Unit
- Extensive interprofessional team including psychologist and pharmacist
Children’s Hospital and Clinics Minneapolis
- Established pain and palliative care team
- Pediatric continuity clinic
Current Fellows
Paul Dixon, MD
Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Residency: Family medicine, University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
Jeffrey Gonzalez, MD
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
Residency: Emergency medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center
Danielle Hart, MD
Medical School: Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Residency: Emergency medicine, Hennepin Healthcare
Alberto Orioles, MD
Medical School: Università degli Studi di Udine Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Italy
Residency: Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Health Science Center
Fellowship: Pediatric Critical Care, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Rosemary Ramp, MD
Medical School: University of Texas at San Antonio
Residency: Internal medicine/pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Chas Salmen, MD
Medical School: University of California-San Francisco
Residency: Family medicine, University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency
Contact
Mailing address:
420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 5545
Office address:
6-240 Phillips-Wangensteen Building
516 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Annette Nijjar, MD
Program Director
bloes001@umn.edu
Matt Loosbrock
Program Coordinator
612-624-6998
loosbrom@umn.edu
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship graduates, class of 2023, with Program Director Annette Nijjar, MD (center)
The UMN Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow Experience
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