St. John's Faculty

Bio

Dr. Kathryn Brown has been a member of the St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency core faculty since 2015. She received her medical training at the University of Minnesota Medical School-Twin Cities Campus and completed her family medicine training in 2014 at the St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. In the field of family medicine, Dr. Brown is motivated by developing and sustaining collaborative relationships with patients in the clinical setting, working with families, providing obstetric care, and enhancing the patient experience as they interface with medicine. Dr. Brown's research interests include: improving the patient experience in clinical care and management of chronic pain and safe opiate prescribing. In her personal life, Dr. Brown enjoys time with her family, cooking, time spent outdoors, and ceramics.

Research Summary

Improving the patient experience in clinical care; management of chronic pain; safe opiate prescribing

Clinical Summary

Specialties: Family Medicine/Primary Care

Bio

Jennifer Budd, DO, has been faculty in the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency since 2016. She is the current medical director at Phalen Village Clinic. She practiced full-spectrum family medicine for 10 years in North St. Paul, MN. During that time she was also a family medicine community preceptor at the University of Minnesota Physicians Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic.Her current interests and projects include a medication reconciliation process in the ambulatory setting, standard approach to pediatric obesity, and developing the OMM curriculum for our residency program with an emphasis on treatments used in the office setting.

Clinical Summary

Women's and children's health; osteopathic principles and practice; quality improvement; chronic disease management

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Kirby Clark, MD, is faculty in the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency and Director of the Rural and Metropolitan Physician Associate Programs. He also serves as a master tutor for several Medical School courses; instructor for two department courses – Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO®) and Family Medicine Ultrasound; and co-director for the department Leadership and Finance course. His medical interests include pediatrics, office procedures, inpatient medicine, practice management, and education. 

Bio

James Hougas III, MD, FAAFP, joined the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency in 2017. Before this, he served on active duty with the United States Air Force for five years after residency. His assignments included outpatient practice at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, residency faculty and full spectrum Family Medicine at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and deployment to Afghanistan, Qatar, and elsewhere. He is interested in infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, trauma care and systems, office based procedures, physician leadership, and colonoscopy. He is also an instructor in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO).

Clinical Summary

Infectious diseases; antimicrobial stewardship; trauma care; office-based procedures; physician leadership; and colonoscopy

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Rahul Kapur, MD, CAQSM, is faculty at the University of Minnesota St John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency. He came to the Twin Cities from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA where he served as Fellowship Director for the Penn Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship from 2010-2018. He served as Chief Medical Physician for Penn Athletics from 2007-2018 and currently is a team physician for US Lacrosse.

Clinical Summary

Non-operative musculoskeletal medicine including concussion management; running medicine; pre-participation physicals; and exertional compartment testing

Family Medicine and Sports Medicine

Bio

Anne Keenan, MD, is faculty in the University of Minnesota St. John's Family Medicine Residency. She is a graduate of the St. John's program and joined as faculty in 2017 after having loved her experience at St. John's Hospital and Phalen Village Family Medicine Clinic. Her interests include obstetric care, pediatrics, and healthy lifestyle promotion.

Teaching Summary

Faculty in the Rural Physician Associate Program as well as the Metro Physician Associate Program.

Clinical Summary

Maternal and child health, healthy lifestyle promotion, family medicine/primary care

Bio

Katherine Montag Schafer, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. She is a faculty member with the St. John's Family Medicine Residency Program and practices at Phalen Village Family Medicine Clinic. She is a 2013 graduate from North Dakota State University College of Pharmacy and completed PGY1 and PGY2 training at Hennepin County Medical Center, specializing in ambulatory care pharmacy practice, in 2015.

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William Roberts, MD, MS, is a professor, vice chair of faculty affairs, and former director of the Sports Medicine Program in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has a sub-specialty certificate in Sports Medicine, is a fellow and past president of the American College of Sports Medicine; a fellow and on the Executive Board of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS); editor in chief emeritus for Current Sports Medicine Reports; the medical director for Twin Cities in Motion; the chair of the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee for the Minnesota State High School League; and a member of the USA Soccer Cup Tournament Sports Medicine Advisory Committee. His research is in ice hockey, concussion, exertional heat stroke, and marathon related illness and injury. He has authored many research and educational publications in sports medicine and has presented nationally and internationally on sports medicine topics.

Research Summary

Heat stroke, concussion, youth running injury, youth and high school sports, endurance medicine

Service Summary

Heat stroke, road race management, concussion, cold injury, altitude

Clinical Summary

Sports Injury, heat injury, concussion, endurance medicine

Bio

Timothy Ronneberg, MD, is the associate program director of the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Prior to this role, he was an assistant professor where he served as a hospitalist and helped coordinate inpatient adult medicine and obstetrics training. He has been with the St. John's program since 2004.

Clinical Summary

Inpatient adult medicine, obstetrics

Bio

Ben Rosenstein, MD, MA, completed his family medicine training at the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Following residency, he pursued his interests in the care for older adults and completed a Geriatrics Medicine Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He has deep interest in primary and specialty care of older adults in multiple settings as well as health and aging policy initiatives.

Clinical Summary

Primary care geriatrics, dementia, delirium prevention, advanced care planning, and end-of-life care.

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Angela Smithson, MD, MPH, is the director of the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Previously, she taught and practiced at the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency and served as medical director of Family Health Services Minnesota, P.A. In 2010, she joined St. John's faculty and became its program director in 2015.

Service Summary

Team-based clinical care, chronic disease management, women's health, preventive medicine

Clinical Summary

Full spectrum of family medicine - including obstetrics, women's health including colposcopy, chronic disease team management

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April Wilhelm, MD, MPH, is a faculty physician and clinician-researcher at the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Prior to joining the faculty, she completed an interdisciplinary fellowship in child and adolescent primary care research at the University of Minnesota. Her research program centers on promoting healthy behaviors among adolescents in refugee and immigrant communities and adolescent tobacco prevention.

Research Summary

Adolescent tobacco prevention; refugee/immigrant health; health equity, social determinants of health

Service Summary

Adolescent health, refugee/immigrant health, adolescent tobacco prevention

Clinical Summary

Reproductive health; adolescent health; healthy lifestyle promotion; chronic disease management

Bio

Dr. Zak-Hunter is a licensed marriage and family therapist and serves as the Director of Behavioral Health at St. John's Family Medicine Residency. She joined the faculty in 2016 after working in a similar role at Via Christi Family Medicine Residency since 2012. She completed her doctoral internship with St. John's as well. Her interests include integrated behavioral healthcare, medical family therapy, provider wellbeing, and family-centered healthcare.

Research Summary

Provider and resident personal and relational wellbeing, family-centered care, primary care approaches to adverse experience and trauma, adult eating disorders.

Clinical Summary

Integrated behavioral healthcare, medical family therapy, family-centered healthcare, impact of disease on personal and family functioning.