North Memorial Faculty
2426 Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Bio
Anne Doering, MD, joined the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2020. She practices and teaches full-spectrum family medicine at North Memorial Medical Center and Broadway Family Medicine clinic. Dr. Doering has particular interests in obstetric and perinatal care, promoting physician engagement in advocacy and policy, patient-centered communication, community health, and reproductive justice.
2426 W Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Dr. Kacey Justesen joined the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2014 and became the program director in July 2018. Prior to that, she was in private practice for 11 years. Her primary interests lie in full-spectrum family medicine and teaching the next generation of family medicine doctors to appreciate and thrive within the true depth of family medicine. She is a member of the University of Minnesota Physician's board of directors.
2426 W Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Robert Levy, MD, is board certified in addiction medicine and family medicine. He is a fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and completed a fellowship in Addiction and Chronic Pain at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in 2011. Dr. Levy joined University of Minnesota North Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2011. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he also practices full-spectrum family medicine, including obstetrics. He is treasurer of the Minnesota Society of Addiction Medicine and was elected to a repeat term on the American Society of Addiction Medicine Public Policy Committee in 2018. He recently received a grant from SAMHSA to help Minnesota address the opioid epidemic. His interests are in healthcare professionals who have substance use disorder, chronic pain management, the integration of addiction treatment into primary care, hospital medicine, rural ER, and addiction in pregnancy and the neonatal period. He is also treasurer at the Minnesota Society of Addiction Medicine.
Research Summary
Opioid addiction in primary care, chronic pain, neonatal abstinence syndrome, perinatal mood disorders.
Service Summary
MAT, video laryngoscopy, chronic pain, perinatal care, mood disorders, motivational interviewing, diabetes management
Clinical Summary
Addiction in primary care, chronic pain, preventive care, diabetes management, mood disorders in primary care
Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
Bio
Katie Loth, PhD, MPH, joined the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health research faculty in 2015. Her research explores social and environmental influences on child and adolescent weight status and disordered eating behaviors. Specifically, she is interested in identifying ways that parents can work to help their children develop and maintain a healthy weight and a healthy relationship with their bodies. Loth is also a dietician and will see patients in clinic and help train residents.
Research Summary
Food parenting practices, child eating behaviors and dietary intake, eating disorders, health behavior change, and food insecurity
Clinical Summary
Dietary intake, food-parenting behaviors, food insecurity, parent-child feeding relationships, eating disorders, body satisfaction, and weight-neutral clinical care.
2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Elizabeth Martinez, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and director of behavioral health at the North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program. She completed her postdoctoral training in primary care behavioral health at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Martinez has a special interest in community-grounded research, mental health promotion, and intervention with racial/ethnic minorities and immigrant/refugee families. She enjoys providing integrated behavioral health services in the primary care setting and teaching behavioral science to family medicine residents.
Research Summary
Stress and resilience in Latinx immigrant families; racial/ethnic health disparities; primary care behavioral health prevention and intervention.
Teaching Summary
Dr. Martinez provides behavioral science and education to family medicine residents and training in patient-centered communication. Teaching areas: Integrated behavioral health; patient-centered care; motivational interviewing; health behavior change.
Service Summary
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the Latinx population, Dr. Martinez partnered with local organizations and news outlets such as CLUES, Univision MN, and TPT to provide outreach, COVID-19, and mental health information to the Spanish-speaking community. Additional informational videos and releases have been ongoing as needed.
Clinical Summary
Depression; anxiety; trauma; health behavior change
2426 W Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Laura Miller, MD, MPH, joined the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2012. She practices and teaches full-spectrum family medicine and has a particular interest in obstetric and prenatal care. She also is the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health's Community Health Committee. She has a Master of Public Health, with a focus on community health and specifically on postpartum depression screening and management in primary care. Her medical interests include obstetrics, public health, research, community health, resilience for physicians, underserved medicine, and international health.
Honors and Recognition
2426 W Broadway
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
I am medical director at Broadway Family Medicine and member of the New Faculty Peer Group. Current interest and projects include and MDH funded grant on treating opioid use disorder in primary care, developing point of care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum, and working on Broadway Family Medicine's underserved medicine curriculum.
Research Summary
MAT in primary care
Service Summary
Full-spectrum family medicine, addiction medicine, and POCUS
Clinical Summary
Underserved medicine, addiction medicine, POCUS
717 Delaware St SE, Rm 421
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Bio
Amy Noser, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Noser is both a researcher and behavioral medicine clinician. She is a clinical child psychologist who specializes in integrated behavioral care and helping children and their families address treatment barriers. Her research focuses on adherence and self-management behaviors and the use of digital tools to assess and intervene on these behaviors in youth with chronic conditions and their families.
Research Summary
Adherence and self-management, eHealth & mHealth, health lifestyles, and behavior change.
Clinical Summary
Medical treatment adherence, behavior therapy, parent training, functional pain management, depression, and anxiety.
Bio
Dr. Okah is a health equity researcher in the areas of health services and population health. Her research is focused on understanding how physicians perceive and use race in their medical decision-making and evaluating how experiences of racism contribute to cardiovascular disease in Black Americans. Her clinical interests include preventive medicine, mental wellness, diabetes and hypertension management.
Clinical Summary
Family Medicine/Primary Care
2426 W Broadway
Minneapolis, MN 55411
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Olson is an associate director of the University of Minnesota Sports Medicine Fellowship and directs the sports medicine curriculum at the University of Minnesota North Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency. He enjoys providing team care for high school, college, and professional sports teams, including the Minnesota Vikings, University of Minnesota Gophers, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, and Roseville Area High School.
Clinical Summary
Sports medicine, team coverage, adolescent medicine, community outreach, concussion management, and ultrasound guided injections.
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bio
Shailey Prasad, MD, MPH, is executive director of the University of Minnesota Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility and vice chair for education at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He is actively involved with undergraduate, medical student, and residency education. He has extensive experience working in underserved areas around the world, from forest tribes in southern India to rural Mississippi, advocating that health is critical to the overall development of an area. He has also been part of research teams in health services research and rural health and is actively involved in developing primary care in various parts of the world.
Service Summary
Medical education, health care systems, public health and health policy.
Clinical Summary
Primary care, continuity of care, and community-based care.
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Dr. Ramsey is an assistant professor with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health working with North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program. He is vice chair for the board of the Ladder for America. His particular interests include health literacy, full-spectrum family medicine, and preventative health.
Service Summary
I work with the Ladder for America, which is a nonprofit organization that helps foster cascading mentorship to underrepresented communities in medicine. It serves to facilitate leaders in said communities and helps them to obtain the tools necessary to become medical professionals.
Clinical Summary
Social determinants of health; medical literacy; community health; full-spectrum family medicine