Woodwinds Faculty

Bio

Mark Berg, MD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Prior to joining M Physicians in 2016, he spent 18 years delivering babies, rounding at nursing homes and the community hospital, attending the sidelines of high school sporting events and serving primary medical needs of the New Prague communities in Minnesota. His medical interests include wellness, sports medicine, obstetrics, and office procedures.

Clinical Summary

Sports Medicine; Sports medicine with wrestling, running, baseball and nordic skiing focus. Vasectomy. Office-based procedures.

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Darin Brink, MD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Woodwinds Family Medicine Residency. Prior to joining the department in 2010, he started a free clinic for refugees in Moscow and provided medical care and instruction in Moscow, Samara, and Tula Oblasts, Russia. Brink also has several years experience as a small town family doctor in South Dakota. He has a strong interest in medical missions and humanitarian medical care.

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Christine Danner, PhD, has worked in the department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota since 1998, when she began as the department’s first full-time post-doctoral fellow in behavioral health. She has served as the Director of Behavioral Health for the Woodwinds (formerly St. Joseph’s) Family Medicine Residency Program since completing her fellowship in 2000. In 2022, Dr. Danner's role expanded when she became the Director of Behavioral Health for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Danner’s current clinical interests include providing integrated behavioral health services across the lifespan in the primary care setting, refugee mental health, addressing equity gaps in the mental health care system, healthy lifestyle promotion and chronic pain management. 

Research Summary

Refugee physical and mental health, chronic pain management, medical cannabis, patient centered communication training, integrated behavioral health

Clinical Summary

Integrated Behavioral Health, Chronic Pain Management, Medical Cannabis, Pediatric Obesity Prevention, Refugee Mental Health

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Christopher Fallert, MD, is faculty in the University of Minnesota Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency. He also directs the Family Medicine Clerkship and is actively involved in medical student and residency education. Previously, he practiced family medicine at a HealthEast clinic in Oakdale, Minnesota.

Clinical Summary

Specialties: Full spectrum family medicine; Teaching medical students; and residents; Evidence-based medicine

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Katie Freeman, MD, practices full spectrum family medicine including obstetrics at Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic in St. Paul. Her clinical passions include providing prenatal and obstetrical care, geriatrics and end-of-life care, and treating overlapping chronic disease and mental health in refugees and immigrants. Her research and professional interests focus on local population health interventions, including building community partnerships, improving patient education, and developing physician advocates. She leads the Woodwinds program's healthcare legal partnership and resident education didactic curriculum.

Research Summary

Medical student and resident education, immigrant and refugee health, healthcare legal partnerships, interdisciplinary health collaborations.

Teaching Summary

Academic Interests and Focus: Resident Education, Educational pedagogy, Community Health
Teaching Area: Family Medicine

Clinical Summary

Geriatrics, Obstetrics, Refugee and Immigrant Health

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Ila Harris, PharmD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency and an adjunct professor in the University's College of Pharmacy. She maintains a clinical and educational position at Bethesda Clinic; provides didactic lectures at both the University's Medical School and College of Pharmacy; precepts family medicine residents and pharmacy students; and leads the pharmacotherapy curriculum at Woodwinds Hospital residency (formerly known as St. Joseph's Hospital Family Medicine Residency program). Harris is also active in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

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Casey Martin, MD, directs the University of Minnesota Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency, providing a supportive learning environment with an appropriate mix of guidance and independence. He is also involved in sports medicine care at several local high schools, primarily Henry Sibley in Mendota Heights. Martin enjoys involving residents in high school athletic care because it embodies not only orthopedics, but also adolescent medicine, ENT, dermatology, and other areas of medicine.

Clinical Summary

Cross-cultural healthcare, graduate medical education, sports medicine, and healthcare for the underserved.

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Allison Newman, MD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Prior to joining the department in 2021, she completed a fellowship in obstetrics and practiced full-spectrum family medicine for four years through Contra Costa Health Services in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to caring for a primary care panel at a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center, she practiced and taught high-risk and surgical obstetrics, coordinated obstetrical emergency simulations, and provided clinic consultation for patients with congestive heart failure.

Service Summary

High-risk and surgical obstetrics, contraception/family planning, heart failure management, and an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) certified instructor.

Clinical Summary

Safe childbirth, contraception and family planning, breastfeeding medicine, Point of Care Ultrasound, chronic disease management, mental healthcare, health equity, and cultural competence in healthcare.

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Dr. Ann Philbrick is an associate professor at the College of Pharmacy and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. She is on the faculty of Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program and maintains her pharmacy practice at Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic. She is a 2006 graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed a combined PGY1 and PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2008.

Research Summary

• Pharmacist's role in a family medicine teaching clinic
• Pharmacists Role in refugee healthcare
• Education and attitudes about medical cannabis

Teaching Summary

• Immunization Delivery
• Medical Cannabis

Clinical Summary

Family Medicine, Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM), asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, preventative are, refugee health care, social determinants of health (SODH), medical cannabis

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Following medical school and residency in Dublin, Ireland, David Power, MD, MPH, moved to the U.S. He completed a fellowship in faculty development and an MPH in epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. He directs the department's medical student education activities, leads medical school curricular integration of public health and health policy, and sees patients at University of Minnesota Physicians Bethesda Clinic. He also serves as a Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) representative to the Alliance for Clinical Education. In 2018, Dr. Power was inducted into AHC Academy for Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Clinical Summary

Medical student education, family medicine, clinical decision-making, and chronic kidney disease.

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Amanda Weinmann, MD, MS, is faculty and associate program director of the Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Weinmann joined faculty in 2015 after graduating from the University of Minnesota St. Joseph's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, now known as Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program.