North Memorial Faculty

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.

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.

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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

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.

Bio

Jody Lounsbery, PharmD, is a faculty pharmacist and clinical preceptor at the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency and an associate professor in the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

Research Summary

Dr. Lounsbery’s areas of emphasis for scholarly activity include dissemination of (1) Innovations in educational design, both in the didactic and experiential settings; and (2) Innovations in practice, specially related to the pharmacist’s role as a clinical educator in family medicine.

Teaching Summary

Within Dr. Lounsbery’s educational experiences, she has worked directly with many types and levels of learners including pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, family medicine residents, nursing students, and undergraduate students. Within both didactic and experiential settings, she has employed educational design strategies to improve instruction and learner experiences.

Clinical Summary

Dr. Lounsbery’s practice interests include defining the pharmacist’s role as a clinical educator and faculty in family medicine residency programs, implementing an interprofessional curriculum for learners, and providing patient-centered care to underserved patients through comprehensive medication management.

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

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.

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Dr. Moon is an associate professor for the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and adjunct associate professor the University of Minnesota Medical School. She is clinical faculty for the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program, where she provides comprehensive medication management services for a medically underserved patient population in North Minneapolis in addition to teaching pharmacy and medical students and residents. Along with her faculty responsibilities teaching pulmonary, ambulatory care and women's health, Dr. Moon is the program director for the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency Program. She received her doctor of pharmacy and completed a PGY1 pharmacy residency in 2005 from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

Research Summary

SOTL in peer review for learners and clinical faculty and in experiential education instructional design.

Teaching Summary

Ambulatory care IPPE/APPE; Kidney, and Pulmonary.

 

Clinical Summary

Clinics

Broadway Family Medicine Clinic

Board Certifications

BCACP

Clinical Interests

Jean Moon's clinical areas of interest include pulmonary medicine, women's health, motivational interviewing, and interprofessional practice.

Clinical Experience Statement

Dr. Moon established clinical pharmacy services at Broadway Family Medicine in 2004. These services work to improve the care of chronic disease in an underserved patient population by offering in-clinic comprehensive medication management service to patients, training students and resident providers to promote the safe and effective use of medications, and help patients achieve their medication therapy goals through interprofessional team care.

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

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

Bio

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.