North Memorial Faculty

Bio

Dr. David 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.

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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.

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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

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Jason Ricco, MD, MPH, joined the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2014 after completion of a 2-year NRSA-funded primary care research fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. As an Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Scholar, Dr. Ricco's research interests include the impact of implicit bias and structural racism on health disparities, innovative care models that holistically address social determinants of health, and the evidence and policy implications for medical cannabis. He has received funding to pilot a community health worker (CHW) program targeting social isolation in North Minneapolis.

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Andrew Slattengren, DO, joined University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2011. He is a founding board member and remains active with Family Medicine Midwest. Dr. Slattengren is a past president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians.

Clinical Summary

Osteopathic manipulative treatment, medical education, musculoskeletal medicine

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Edward Smith, DO, is faculty in the University of Minnesota Program in Sports Medicine. He sees patients at M Health Fairview Sports Medicine Clinic, M Physicians Broadway Family Medicine Clinic, and M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda. He has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine and clinical interest in fitness and nutrition and overuse injuries in the recreational athlete.

Clinical Summary

• Sports medicine
• Family medicine

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Michael Wootten, MD, was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, but moved to Minnesota for the nationally recognized training in family medicine at the University of Minnesota. Post-residency, he pursued private practice in rural North Carolina and Plymouth, Minnesota. Wootten joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency in 1995 and served as its director from 2010 to 2018. He currently serves as teaching faculty and clinician at North Memorial Hospital and Broadway Family Medicine.

Clinical Summary

Patient-centered communication; chronic disease management, especially diabetes and hypertension; hospital medicine

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Mark Yeazel, MD, MPH, is the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health's vice chair for faculty affairs. He completed a faculty development fellowship in 1992 and has since been involved in department faculty development efforts. Dr. Yeazel's research focuses on cancer screening. He has directed both community and clinic-based interventions and cancer survivorship. Dr. Yeazel has also been involved in studies examining the long-term outcomes and health needs of childhood cancer survivors. 

Clinical Summary

Cancer screening and survivorship, preventive medicine, community health, faculty development