Family Medicine Faculty
Bio
Patricia "Pita" Adam, MD, MSPH, is the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health's vice chair for clinical affairs. She teaches in the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency and is also one of the founding family medicine team members on the Minnesota Primary Care Transformation Collaborative. As vice chair, Dr. Adam's goal is to improve the care delivered to patients and the experience of providers and staff as they serve patients. This includes an intentional focus on minoritized patients and their quality outcomes. She oversees the core family medicine residency clinics and is a member of the Primary Care Executive Team within our Primary Care Service Line. In that role, she oversees family medicine obstetrics care, is a champion for equitable care, and facilitates engagement in the Primary Care Service Line's Practice Based Research Network. Dr. Adam has published many evidence-based answers to point of care questions, a model for optimal communication teaching, team-based care, intrathecal narcotics for obstetric pain management, saline nasal spray for colds and sinusitis and most recently Clinic as Curriculum, a model with advanced scheduling options to improve provider-patient continuity and provider wellness.
Research Summary
Improving and understanding primary care systems in academic clinics, including interprofessional team care, teaching residents patient-communication skills, and how to transform the care in teaching clinics. Leading a multi-year implementation of Clinic as Curriculum across the core Twin Cities family medicine programs with the goal of advancing pro-clinic scheduling options to improve provider-patient continuity and provider wellness. Incorporating community health workers in a primary care clinic to improve the care of patients from marginalized communities.
Clinical Summary
Ambulatory care; team care and interprofessional care; women's health
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 E. 28th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
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Prior to joining department faculty and the Medical School Program in Health Disparities Research, Michele Allen, MD, MS, completed a fellowship in primary care research and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. She is active in health disparities research and scholarship and serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals.
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717 Delaware Street SE, Suite #166Minneapolis, MN 55414
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Sharon Allen, MD, PhD, co-directs the University of Minnesota Medical School Essentials of Clinical Medicine course. As an NIH-funded researcher for over 25 years, she has focused on factors that contribute to smoking, specifically looking at the influence of sex hormones on smoking cessation and addictive behaviors. Her research explores novel treatments for smoking cessation, examines underlying traits that fuel nicotine addiction, combines treatments to maximize effectiveness, and recognizes sex and hormonal influences on the treatment of nicotine addiction. Dr. Allen sees patients at the University of Minnesota Physicians Women's Health Specialists Clinic and Clinics and Surgery Center, where she also precepts residents in family medicine, internal medicine, OB/GYN, and pharmacy.
Research Summary
Tobacco cessation in women and sex hormones
Clinical Summary
Women's health; osteoporosis; smoking cessation
Contact
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6-145 Phillips-Wangensteen Building420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0356
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Mary Amon, MD (she/hers) is a full scope family medicine physician and has been practicing for 25 years in Willmar, Minnesota. As a physician, she enjoys helping patients prevent disease burden and maintain healthy practices in their lives as well as continuing with prenatal and OB/newborn care. Dr. Amon is currently an ambulatory CDI physician champion for CentraCare regional sites. She is a dedicated teacher, having been an University of Minnesota Rural Physician Associate Program preceptor, a legacy preceptor for the Rural Medical Scholars Program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and participating in a first year medical student mentorship program with University of Minnesota students.
Teaching Summary
RPAP preceptor, legacy UMD-SOM RMSP preceptor, rural rotation preceptor for St. Cloud FM residency
Service Summary
Willmar Public School, School Board Director 2017-present
YMCA Board of Directors 2018-2024, board chair 2022-23
Cardinal Pride Board of Directors
Clinical Summary
Ambulatory family medicine with OB, newborn and pediatric inpatient care
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Bio
Christine A. Arenson, MD, is director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. Dr. Arenson was named co-director of the National Center in July 2020, working in Nexus with Barbara Brandt, the National Center’s founding director. She transitioned to director in December 2021.
Prior to joining the National Center, Dr. Arenson served as alumni professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Arenson graduated from the University of Delaware in 1986 and Jefferson Medical College in 1990. She completed family medicine residency training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, followed by a fellowship in geriatric medicine. She was the founding director of the Jefferson Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care and has focused on patient-centered care and team education for health professionals as strategies to improve the health of older adults. She was the founding co-director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, serving in that role from 2007-2016.
Most recently, she has been actively engaged in primary care transformation to meet the Quadruple Aim: Improve the Experience of Care, Improve Health Outcomes, Reduce Costs and Restore Joy in Practice. She previously served on the board of Jeff Care Alliance, Jefferson’s clinically integrated network, and the Executive Steering Committee for Jefferson Health population health and primary care service lines, implementing a new Advanced Primary Care Model across the Jefferson primary care network, now including over 100 practices. From 2013 – 2019 she was a member of the board of the Delaware Valley ACO. She also works to educate healthcare teams to improve healthcare outcomes. She is a past chair of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. She has served as a member of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Knowledge Generation Advisory Committee since 2014.
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420 Church St SEMinneapolis, MN 55455-0222
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Chris Ashton, MS, LAT, ATC serves as adjunct faculty with the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship. He currently serves as Concussion Program Coordinator at Twin Cities Orthopedics as well as providing collaborative primary care sports medicine care with Dr. David Olson.
Research Summary
Sport Concussion Diagnosis and Treatment
Teaching Summary
Concussion Evaluation & Management, Bracing & Splinting, Return to Play Decision Making
Certifications
Board Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC)
Minnesota Board of Medical Practice (LAT)
Education
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations
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Twin Cities Orthopedics 4010 West 65th Street Edina, MN 55435Bio
Macaran Baird, MD, MS, is professor emeritus and retired department head in the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Baird began his career as a family physician and family therapist in rural Wabasha, Minnesota, in 1978. He co-authored his first book, Family Therapy and Family Medicine, in 1983. Soon after that he launched his academic career by first serving as an assistant professor and residency director at the University of Oklahoma, followed by his appointment in 1987 as professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the State University of New York Medical School, Syracuse, New York. In 1995, Dr. Baird returned to Minnesota as associate medical director for primary care for Health Partners and then moved to Rochester as medical director of the Mayo Health Plan and professor in family medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. He returned to the Twin Cities as professor and head, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School and chair of the board of UCare. He held these positions from July 2002 until his first retirement in December 2017. As he was retiring, he was asked to serve as CEO for the University of Minnesota Physicians and co-president of M Health Fairview.
Dr. Baird is a past-president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and was a founding member of the Collaborative Family Health Care Association. In 1999 he co-chaired the COGME 13th Report to Congress: Educating the Physician Workforce for the Future and in 2001 he was co-chair of the Health and Behavior Report for the Institute of Medicine. He has received awards from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the Collaborative Family Health Care Association (CFHA), the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians, the Minnesota Medical Association and the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has authored and edited three books and several government and/or foundation reports related to mental health; he has also published over 40 papers and book chapters.
During Dr. Baird’s tenure at the University of Minnesota, the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health grew in the number of faculty, from 50 to around 100, and residency programs grew from six to eight. Funded research and research-focused faculty grew to make the DFMCH the third-highest NIH-funded department of family medicine in the US.
For two years after retiring, Dr. Baird served as a consultant to the dean. Among his duties during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic was to be part of the three-member team that did the first layer of review to assess the risk/benefit balance for all medical school clinical research grants. Many principal investigators were asked to delay patient enrollment to reduce the risk of infection for patients and staff. NIH and other funding sources did not penalize grant recipients for these actions.
Dr. Baird is now retired and lives with his wife, Kris, in Lake City, Minnesota.
Service Summary
Dr. Baird is focusing his interests in environmental and mental health causes and volunteers to provide primary care for a free clinic near Lake City, Minnesota. He is currently the president of the board of directors of the Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center, a multi-center non-profit organization that provides mental health services to five counties in southeastern Minnesota. He is also a member of the Health Professionals for a Health Climate, HPHC, based in the Twin Cities, and is president of the Lake City Kiwanis Club.
Education
Licensures and Certifications
Grants and Patents
Selected Grants
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Greta Bauer, PhD, MPH is a professor and director of the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). She holds the endowed academic chair in sexual health. Prior to 2022, Dr. Bauer was a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University in London, Canada, where she held a Sex and Gender Science Chair through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). As an epidemiologist, Dr. Bauer’s focus on sexual and gender health has been both substantive and methodological, with a focus on the impacts of social marginalization. She is an international leader in both community and clinical research on transgender and non-binary health, and in incorporating intersectionality into quantitative research methods. As an interdisciplinary epidemiologist, she has published in top academic journals across medicine (e.g., Annals of Emergency Medicine), public health (e.g, American Journal of Public Health), psychology (e.g., Psychology of Women Quarterly), social science (e.g., Social Science & Medicine), sexual health (e.g., Journal of Sex Research), and epidemiology (e.g., Epidemiology). Her research and professional expertise have been used in legislative or court processes in Canada with regard to blood donation policy for gay and bisexual men, the addition of gender identity and expression to federal and provincial human rights codes, and legal challenges in multiple provinces regarding restrictive criteria for trans people to change sex designations on identity documents. Pronouns: she/they
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
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Dianne Berg, Ph.D., is an associate professor and licensed psychologist, with an emphasis in Child and Adolescent Gender Health at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). She provides clinical services to adults, adolescents and children with sexuality and gender concerns. Her areas of interest are transgender issues – including gender creative children, and compulsive sexual behavior – including the unique needs of partners of people with compulsive sexual behavior. Dr. Berg and her colleague, Dr. Katie Spencer, are the authors of the Gender Affirmative Lifespan Approach (GALA™) of Psychotherapy and Education that is the theoretical framework for the clinical-research program of the Gender Health Services at ISGH. Dr. Berg is an invited speaker both nationally and internationally, including appearances on PBS and in Scientific American Mind magazine as well as presentations at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) symposium and the national conference of the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). She is a published author with more recent work being a chapter co-author for an APA book on Assessment for Children within a Gender Affirmative Model of Care. She is currently developing a group therapy curriculum for trans-identified youth and their parent/s and is exploring clinical innovations to enrich supportive therapy experiences for gender creative children. Dr. Berg is a member of the Child and Adolescent Committee of WPATH, as well as an AASECT certified sex therapist and AASECT certified supervisor. Dr. Berg works in conjunction with pediatric endocrinology, urology, genetics and MDH Newborn Screening to provide a multidisciplinary clinic for children/adolescents with Disorders of Sex Development (DSD). Dr. Berg received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. Pronouns: she/her/hers.
Research Summary
Transgender issues, compulsive sexual behavior, sex offender treatment, children and adolescent gender diversity
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South Second Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454
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Clinical faculty at the North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program and director of rural programs for the University of Minnesota, Dr. Bergeson spent nine years as a full-spectrum rural family physician and was the founding program director for a rural residency program in Washington state. She is passionate about full-spectrum family medicine including obstetrics and training the next generation of family physicians to serve rural and urban communities in need.
Research Summary
Delivery of care in under-resourced settings, rural GME, and clinical reasoning.
Teaching Summary
Dr. Bergeson developed a longitudinal clinical reasoning curriculum to improve medical decision-making, especially in under-resourced and high-stress settings.
Clinical Summary
Full-spectrum family medicine including obstetrics, inpatient care and emergency room care.
Education
Professional Memberships
Languages
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2426 W Broadway Ave Minneapolis, MN 55411Bio
Amy Bonifas, MD, is faculty and program director for the University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency. In addition to teaching, she practices full-spectrum family medicine and has special interests in obstetrics, community health, and adolescent medicine. Dr. Bonifas is medical director for Central Clinic, the free clinic for children and adolescents in St. Louis Park, which is staffed by Methodist Family Medicine third-year residents. |
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
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Park Nicollet Clinic - Creekside, 6600 Excelsior Blvd, Ste 100, St. Louis Park, MN 55426Bio
Karen Borchert, MD, is the associate program director of the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. She is also a graduate of this program and joined the faculty in 2015. Dr. Borchert practices full-spectrum family medicine including obstetrics at Smiley's Family Medicine Clinic in Minneapolis, MN. She is passionate about providing comprehensive reproductive health care, LGBTQ+ care including gender-affirming care, and improving patient and physician education.
Research Summary
Pregnancy of unknown location, early pregnancy failure, family planning, postpartum depression
Clinical Summary
Women's health, transgender care, office-based gynecologic procedures, reproductive health, prenatal care, medication-assisted treatment, refugee and immigrant health.
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 28th Street East
Minneapolis, MN 55407
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Dr. Braaten, MD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth Family Medicine Residency. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago and attended Northwestern University Medical School. She completed her residency at the West Suburban Family Practice Residency, serving the West Side of Chicago. Dr.Braaten first practiced at Family Practice Community Wellness Center, serving an inner-city Latino population. She completed a faculty development fellowship at Cook County Hospital and taught with the St. Elizabeth Family Practice Residency. After 6 years she and her family moved to Northern Minnesota where she joined a rural practice in Deer River, working part-time.
After working in Deer River for ten years, Braaten joined the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program as faculty in 2013 and she continues to do some rural ER work. In her free time, she enjoys time with her husband and four children.
Dr. Braaten enjoys the breadth of Family Medicine from birth to death, including part-time clinical work in a rural emergency department. She coordinates the community involvement including a weekly clinic at the CHUM homeless shelter and the residency's JEDI Committee. She also coordinates Duluth family medicine residency's multi-disciplinary Medication Safety Conference and serve on the Essentia-wide Peer Review Committee.
Teaching Summary
Teach OB and inpatient family medicine and outpatient clinic
Service Summary
Lead physician CHUM homeless shelter clinic
Chair of Duluth Healthcare and Homelessness Committee
Lead MMA Foundation Wound care kit grant 2022-23
President HS Booster Club Boys' Swimming 2021-23
President HS Booster Club Music Program 2022-present
Clinical Summary
Full spectrum family medicine for over 25 years
Education
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations
Grants and Patents
Selected Grants
Bio
Dr. Brady received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Biological/Health Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her clinical psychology internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Juvenile Research, and a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship in Health Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to joining the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH), Dr. Brady conducted research and taught courses within the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. In the DFMCH, Dr. Brady divides her time between conducting research and providing behavioral health care at M Health Fairview Smiley’s Clinic.
Research Summary
Dr. Brady has developed transdisciplinary and community-engaged programs of research. Dr. Brady’s transdisciplinary research has primarily focused on the prevention of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). She is Multiple Principle Investigator (MPI) for CARDIA-PLUS: A Life Course Investigation of Biopsychosocial Pathways to Bladder Health and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, which is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). She is also a Co-Investigator for the NIDDK-funded Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium. Dr. Brady’s community-engaged program of research has focused on the well-being of adolescents and diverse communities, including a focus on how assets of individuals and their families, peers, schools, and communities can promote health protective behaviors. This includes research on mental health and emotional well-being, sexual health, prevention of violence and substance abuse, identification of social and structural determinants of health, and promotion of health equity. Dr. Brady’s research has utilized community partnerships and coalitions to reach diverse communities. Sources of funding include the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), United States Department of Education, and Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Teaching Summary
Dr. Brady has taught courses in community health promotion, adolescent health, and the application of conceptual frameworks and theory to the development of prevention interventions and research. In addition, Dr. Brady mentors early career scientists, both individually and as part of workshops, in the conceptual aspects of planning a program of research.
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University of Minnesota Medical School Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Program in Health Disparities Research 717 Delaware Street SE Suite 166 Minneapolis, MN 55414Bio
Dana Brandenburg, PsyD, LP is faculty in the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. She completed a fellowship in primary care and behavioral science education through Michigan State University. Her scholarly interests include the integration of mental health services into primary care, behavioral science education within residency education, interprofessional education and health behavior change. Dr. Brandenburg is the training director for the Primary Care Behavioral Health Fellowship program. Additionally, she serves as a health care professional representative on the state Health Care Home Advisory Committee with the Minnesota Department of Health.
Research Summary
Smoking cessation, health behavior change, primary care psychology
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 East 28th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
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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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice Street
Saint Paul, MN 55103
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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- 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
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
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Dave Bucher, MD, is a core faculty member at the Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in St. Louis Park. He holds an adjunct professor appointment in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) and sees patients for his faculty panel at the Minneapolis location of Park Nicollet Clinic. He teaches third- and fourth-year medical students at the Creekside residency clinic and precepts the family medicine residents in their training program. He has facilitated second-year medical students in their Foundations of Clinical Thinking course since 2011, and has been a small group facilitator for first-year medical students in their SAR course (sexuality course).
Research Summary
Primary care clinical research
Service Summary
Dr. Bucher practices full-range family medicine and has special interest and experience in LGBTQ+ care, dermatology in primary care, and sports medicine/fitness.
Clinical Summary
Family medicine / primary care
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Professional Memberships
Contact
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6600 Excelsior Blvd., St. Louis Park, MN 55426Bio
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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
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Caitlin Canton, DO, is an assistant professor for the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. The ability to provide community-focused care at Smiley's to a diverse patient population combined with the resources of a University program is what drew her to this position. Some of her professional interests include inpatient medicine, climate health and environmental justice, and community medicine with an emphasis on health literacy.
Clinical Summary
Women's health and reproductive care; LGBT+ primary care and gender-affirming care; Climate health curriculum; Inpatient medicine; Osteopathic manipulative treatment
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 28th Street East
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bio
Barbara Carver, PsyD, LP, is a licensed psychologist and the Director of Behavioral Medicine for the University of Minnesota/St. Cloud Hospital Family Medicine Residency since 2019. Dr. Carver received her doctoral training at Pacific University in Oregon. She completed her post-doctoral training at Washington State University. Barbara also completed a two year intensive Gestalt Therapy training program at the Gestalt Therapy Training Center Northwest in Oregon.
Dr. Carver is one of the founding providers of Integrated Behavioral Health at CentraCare Health. She also has previously worked as an outpatient therapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders at CentraCare Health. Her current clinical duties include providing integrated behavioral health services in primary care setting and teaching family medicine residents.
Clinical Summary
Acceptance and commitment therapy, gestalt therapy, integrated behavioral health, patient centered care
Bio
Richard Cash, MD, joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota CentraCare St. Cloud Family Medicine Residency in 2019. After graduating from the residency in 2002, he practiced full spectrum family medicine for several years before embarking on a journey that gave him myriad different clinical opportunities and experiences. His professional interests include hospice medicine, geriatrics, medical ethics, NFP/FABMs, and addiction medicine.
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Nicole Chaisson, MD, MPH, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. She is also one of the family medicine team members on the Minnesota Primary Care Transformation Collaborative. She completed fellowship training in adolescent medicine and has strong interests in adolescent health and wellness and reproductive health. Dr. Chaisson earned her MPH in maternal and child health from the University of Minnesota.
Clinical Summary
Family planning and prenatal care, women’s health, adolescent health and wellness, cross-cultural health care, community-oriented care
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Selected Presentations
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 28th Street East
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bio
Eric Christensen, MD, is a former graduate of the University of Minnesota St. Cloud Hospital Family Medicine Residency and joined as faculty in 2021. His medical interests include pediatrics, geriatrics, dermatology, point-of-care ultrasound, and medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorder.
Research Summary
Mentoring residents
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Clinical Summary
Pediatrics, geriatrics, dermatology, point-of-care ultrasound, and medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorder, office and skin procedures
Certifications
American Board of Family Medicine
Memberships
American Academy of Family Physicians
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Contact
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1555 Northway Dr., Suite 200, St. Cloud, MN 56303Administrative Contact
Bio
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.
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
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Eli Coleman, PhD, is Professor Emeritus and former director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. He held the first endowed academic chair in sexual health. Dr. Coleman is the author of numerous articles and books on compulsive sexual behavior, sexual offenders, sexual orientation, gender dysphoria, chemical dependency and family intimacy and on the psychological and pharmacological treatment of a variety of sexual dysfunctions and disorders. He is one of the founding editors of the International Journal of Transgenderism and is the founding and current editor of the International Journal of Sexual Health. He is one of the past-presidents of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the World Association for Sexual Health, the International Academy for Sex Research and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research. He is currently the Chair of the WPATH Standards of Care Revision Committee. He has been a frequent consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization (the regional office of WHO), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pronouns: he/him/his
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 S 2nd St, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55454
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Jennifer Connor, PhD, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an associate professor at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). Her research interests include women's sexual and reproductive health, such as vulvodynia and infertility. She has conducted research in sexual health in the Minnesota Somali community, including the impact of female genital cutting. Her clinical interests include vulvodynia, infertility, couples therapy, sexual dysfunction, and gender creative and transgender children and adolescents. Connor received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Pronouns: she/her/hers
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
Contact
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West Bank Office Building1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55454-1075
Bio
Diana Cowdrey, MD, CAQSM, is faculty with the University of Minnesota Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship and St John's Family Medicine Residency. She practices both family medicine and primary care sports medicine. Her clinical interests include preventative care, overuse injuries, and ultrasound guided procedures.
Clinical Summary
Sports medicine and family medicine
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Contact
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1414 Maryland Ave. E. St. Paul, MN 55106Bio
Brooke Cunningham, MD, PhD, is a general internist, a sociologist, an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Health. Dr. Cunningham uses mixed methods to examine factors at both the provider and organizational levels that impede or facilitate efforts to address health equity, including how health care workers make sense of race and frame the causes of and solutions to racial disparities in health and health care.She teaches a course on race to first-year medical students and has been invited to speak to students and faculty from other medical schools about race and medicine.Dr. Cunningham practices internal medicine at the Community-University Health Care Clinic (CUHCC), a federally-qualified health clinic in Minneapolis that serves a diverse patient population, most of whom live in poverty.
Research Summary
Research Funding GrantsPrincipal Investigator
2016-18, U of M CTSI Pre-K Award
Purpose: Conduct a systematic review of interventions conducted with health care personnel to promote engagement with race, racism, or racial disparities in health and to develop a scale to measure providers’ psychological safety and perceptions of organizational culture in relation to racial health and health care disparities.
2015-17, U of M Office of the Vice President for Research
Title: "From 0 to 100: Building Strong Positive Organizational Climates for Health Equity"
Purpose: Use qualitative methods to identify the domains of health equity climate, by contrasting a local safety net health system—which has recently decided to elevate health equity—to health systems which are considered “best in class.”
2015-16, U of M Serendipity Grant
Title: "Come Step in It: Real Talk about Race"
Purpose: Use participatory action research to develop an intervention to promote effective dialogues about race in health care.
Co-Investigator
2015-20, NHLBI
Title: "The Impact of Residency Factors on Racial, Size, and LGBT Bias in Physician Trainees"
Purpose: This study is part of a program of research intended to evaluate and improve the degree to which physician training promotes physicians’ ability to provide equally high quality and patient-centered care to all patients regardless of their race or ethnicity, size, or sexual orientation.
2013-17, VA Health Services Research & Development
Title: "Motivating Providers to Reduce Disparities in Their Own Practice"
Purpose: Develop and test communication strategies to motivate VA providers to prevent racial health care disparities.
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Rm 155717 Delaware Street SE, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
Bio
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
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
Saint Paul, MN, 55103
Bio
Jay Dirks, MD, joined the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2014 and is now faculty at Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Previously, he practiced full spectrum family medicine in the western suburbs of Minneapolis. His medical interests include office-based procedures including POCUS, pediatric care, non-traditional visits (e-visits, telephone visits), and quality improvement. He also enjoys working with medical students through the University of Minnesota Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP).
Research Summary
Improving Vaccination Rates in Adolescent Somali Refugees
Teaching Summary
Courses: University of MN Department of Family Medicine Leadership and Finance Course presenter University of MN Department of Family Medicine Resident POCUS Course presenter
Clinical Summary
Quality improvement, office procedures, pediatrics including improvement in vaccination rates, and teaching medical students and residents.
Grants and Patents
Selected Grants
Contact
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Park Nicollet Clinic St. Louis Park Creekside6600 Excelsior Blvd #160
St Louis Park, MN 55426
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.
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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Bio
Dr. Dukinfield enjoys working in a practice that is focused on taking optimal care of all patients and utilizes a strong, team-based approach to provide the most comprehensive, appropriate and evidence-based care to a diverse population. His family medicine training allows him to take care of individuals from birth through end of life, with a special emphasis on family dynamics as well. He enjoys taking care of people in all stages of life, from newborns, children and adolescents to adults of middle and old age.
Clinical Summary
Medical interests include preventive medicine, pediatrics, end-of-life care, and diabetes.
Contact
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Park Nicollet Clinic St. Louis Park Creekside6600 Excelsior Blvd #160
St Louis Park, MN 55426
Bio
Dr. Dwivedi is University of Minnesota faculty in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, chief clinical officer at the Community University Health Care Center, and vice chair for community engagement and advocacy. She is also the Mac Baird Endowed Chair in Advocacy and Community Engagement. She received her medical training at Dr Vaishampayan Memorial Government Medical College in India. She graduated from and was chief resident at the UMN Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program. Dr. Dwivedi is involved with several leadership and quality committees all across Minnesota and serves as director at large within the executive committee of Minnesota AFP. She is an educator and likes to create new models of teaching and culturally competent care deliveries. Her special interest in education includes global health and culturally sensitive care. She is also invested in improving health disparities and mentoring medical students and residents.
Research Summary
Addiction, preventable chronic diseases, trauma healing and body experiences, patient centered care, and educational models.
Clinical Summary
Primary care, office based procedures, suboxone, integrative medicine, reproductive health
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Media Appearances
Professional Memberships
Languages
Selected Publications
Contact
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Community-University Health Care Center2001 Bloomington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Bio
Milton "Mickey" Eder, PhD, joined the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health research faculty in 2014. He studies translational research with the goal of improving health outcomes by transforming the public's relationship to healthcare and research. He founded and directed a primary care practice-based research network of Federally Qualified Health Centers, exploring research ethics, patient engagement and patient safety.Dr. Eder has chaired a biomedical Institutional Review board and served as an Associate Editor for Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action . He earned a PhD from the Committee on History of Culture at the University of Chicago.
Teaching Summary
Community engaged research, translational research, primary care with an emphasis on the office as a complex adaptive system and on patient safety
Contact
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University of Minnesota717 Delaware St SE, Room 421
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Bio
Kristin Eide, DO joined the faculty at Smiley's in 2017. She is the current medical director of MHealth Fairview - Smiley's clinic. Dr. Eide practices full spectrum family medicine including obstetrics. Her clinical interests include women's health, inpatient medicine and osteopathic medicine.
Clinical Summary
Women's Health, Obstetrics, Osteopathic Manual Treatment (OMT), Suboxone Therapy for Opioid Dependence, Medication-Assisted Therapy, Chronic Disease Management
Education
Selected Presentations
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 28th Street East
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bio
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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
Saint Paul, MN, 55103
Bio
Jamie Feldman, MD, PhD, is faculty at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH) and provides evaluation and treatment of sexual dysfunction and transgender care at the Center for Sexual Health. She has chaired the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Transgender Medicine and Research Committee since 2001 and published on transgender hormone therapy and primary care. Feldman also trains medical students and residents in sexual health and maintains a primary care practice at the University of Minnesota Physicians Women's Health Specialists Clinic. Pronouns: she/her/hers
Clinical Summary
Specialties: HIV/AIDs, women's health, sexual health, sexual dysfunction, transgender healthcare, common mental illness
Contact
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bio
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
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
Bio
Abby Girard, PsyD, is an assistant professor and the coordinator of the Relationship and Sex Therapy Program at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). She was the second Michael E. Metz postdoctoral fellow at ISGH, with research and clinical work centered on couples' sexual health. Her dissertation research focused on the role of infidelity typologies in predicting attachment anxiety and avoidance. Her clinical training has included psychotherapy experience in community counseling centers, outpatient sexual medicine clinics, and treating individuals and couples in private practice. Dr. Girard's areas of interest include sexual health and functioning, sexual desire discrepancy, compulsive sexual behavior, gender and sexual identity development, couples/relationship intimacy concerns, sexual trauma/abuse recovery, and social justice advocacy. Dr. Girard received her MA in Marital and Family Therapy from the University of San Diego, and her PsyD in Marital and Family Therapy from Alliant International University. Pronouns: she/her/hers
Contact
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bio
Jon Hallberg, MD, is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, where he also serves as the director of philanthropy. Dr. Hallberg maintains a busy clinical practice at the M Physicians Mill City Clinic in Minneapolis, where he serves as the medical director. He is also the creative director of the University of Minnesota Medical School's Center for the Art of Medicine, and is a two-time regional Emmy Award winner for his work on the Twin Cities Public Television series, Art + Medicine.
Creative Activity Summary
Dr. Hallberg is especially interested in health communication, and for over 18 years, from 2003 to the end of 2021, he served as the regular health and medical analyst on the regional "All Things Considered" program on Minnesota Public Radio, appearing over 650 times. In 2009, he created a live, inspired-by-radio program called Hippocrates Cafe, that works with professional actors and musicians to explore complicated healthcare topics through story and song. Dr. Hallberg has created over 100 unique shows, having performed them in eight states at such venues as Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Minnesota State Fair. In 2020, during the Covid pandemic, the live show served as the basis for a new public television series called "Art + Medicine." The four-part series explored the pandemic, race, aging, and disability, and won Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Awards in 2021 ("Reflections on the Pandemic") and 2022 ("Speaking of Race"). "Healthy Aging" has been submitted for an Emmy nomination, and the fourth show, "Disability, Culture and Creativity," will air in October 2023.
Service Summary
Dr. Hallberg has served as medical director of the 10 M Physicians Clinics since November 2021. These include such varied clinics as Broadway Family Medicine (primary care), Hilger Face Center (reconstructive and cosmetic surgery), Mill City Clinic (primary care), Radiation Therapy Center, and St. Louis Park Clinic (child and adolescent mental health, epilepsy, first episode psychosis, memory loss, and treatment-resistant depression).
Clinical Summary
Dr. Hallberg maintains a busy clinical practice at the M Physicians Mill City Clinic, an award-winning art- and light-filled clinic he helped design in 2008 and 2018 (when it was expanded, doubling in size, and remodeled). Since his first year of practice in 1995, Dr. Hallberg has taken a special interest in caring for the creative and performing arts community in the Twin Cities, and has served as the physician for the Guthrie Theater, the Minnesota Orchestra (MO), the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO), the Greater Twin Cities Youth Orchestras (GTCYS), Minnehaha Academy (MA), and various traveling Broadway productions and film companies. He has served as a tour physician multiple times, traveling to such locations as Cuba (MO), Indonesia (SPCO), Italy (SPCO, GTCYS, MA), Poland (GYCYS), Singapore (SPCO), South Africa (MO), and Taiwan (SPCO).
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Contact
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M Physicians Mill City Clinic 901 Second Street South Suite A Minneapolis, MN 55415Bio
Peter Harper, MD, MPH, serves as a preceptor at the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency and medical director of the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center in St. Paul. He is also working on environmental sustainability projects in healthcare. He was previously the department medical director and quality improvement director. Clinical interests include chronic disease, diabetes, asthma, and community-oriented primary care.
Clinical Summary
Specialties: Family medicine, community-oriented primary care, and controlling asthma
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 E. 28th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bio
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.
Professional Memberships
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
Bio
Suzanne Hecht, MD, is faculty in the University of Minnesota Program in Sports Medicine and directs the University of Minnesota Sports Medicine Fellowship. She sees patients at University of Minnesota Physicians Sports Medicine Clinic and has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in sports medicine and certification in clinical densitometry. Dr. Hecht also teaches residents in sports medicine workshops and provides training room and sideline care to University of Minnesota athletes as well as the USA Gymnastics and US Figure Skating teams.
Clinical Summary
Specialties:
Bone health and nutrition in the female athlete
Sports concussions
Pediatric athletes
Body composition
Osteoporosis
Injuries in gymnasts
She currently serves as a team physician for University of Minnesota athletics, US Figure Skating, and is a member of the USA Gymnastics National Healthcare Referral Network.
Contact
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5-255 Phillips-Wagensteen Building420 Delaware St, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
Bio
Karen Jankowski, MD, is a family physician with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health who provides comprehensive, outpatient clinical care at the Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC) in Minneapolis, MN. At CUHCC, Dr. Jankowski has engaged in the transformation to interprofessional team-based care and has promoted this care model on a national level as a key element to reduce barriers for patients from diverse and marginalized backgrounds. She also enjoys teaching medical students and an elective in global-local medicine for residents.
Research Summary
Women’s health, pediatrics, community medicine, office procedures
Clinical Summary
Full-spectrum, community-based, outpatient care and procedures; health equity and culturally appropriate care; interprofessional care teams; travel medicine; medical education
Contact
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Community-University Health Care Center2001 Bloomington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
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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Broadway Family Medicine2426 W Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Rahul Kapur, MD is Director of the Program in Sports Medicine for the DFMCH. He previously served as the Director of Education Programs in Sports Medicine for the Department from 2019-2022. He is also core faculty for the St John's Family Medicine Residency and the UMN Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.
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.
He currently serves as a team physician for the Minnesota Twins and St. Paul Saints, and was a team physician for the USA Lacrosse Women's Senior Team from 2017-2022. He also served as Co-Medical Director for the Twin Cities Marathon in 2022.
Research Summary
Sports Medicine physician burnout and wellness
Teaching Summary
Dr Kapur is actively engaged in teaching of medical students, residents, and sports medicine fellows. At the medical student level, his teaching includes the Essentials of Clinical Medicine Course (ECM) for 1st year students and the Fundamentals of Clinical Thinking (FCT) for both 1st and 2nd year medical students. He also leads the Musculoskeletal Workshop for 3rd year students on their Family Medicine Clerkship. At the residency level, he serves as core faculty for the St. John's Family Medicine Residency Program and directs their musculoskeletal education. He also serves as core faculty for the UMN Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.
Service Summary
Team Physician, Johnson High School, 2018-present; St Paul MN
Co-medical director, Twin Cities Marathon - 2022
Clinical Summary
Dr Kapur sees primary care patients at Phalen Village Clinic and sees sports medicine patients at the Clinics and Surgery Center.
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations
Contact
Address
M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
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
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
Bio
Dr. Keuler is a family medicine physician practicing at Mill City Clinic. Her areas of interest/expertise include preventive medicine, breastfeeding/lactation medicine, mental health care, women's health and addiction medicine. Dr. Keuler is also an assistant professor with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She completed her residency at University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program.Clinical Summary
Contraception care (IUD and Nexplanon insertion and removal), skin procedures, and lactation consultation.Education
Professional Memberships
Contact
Address
Mill City Clinic901 S. 2nd St Suite A
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Bio
Javad Keyhani, MD, is faculty in the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. He's also involved in the Rural Physician Associate Program. Previously, he practiced family medicine in Montevideo, Minnesota, for about 10 years, and was also a preceptor at University of Minnesota Physicians Broadway Family Medicine Clinic.
Teaching Summary
Faculty, Rural Physician Associate Program and Metro Physician Associate Program
Service Summary
Several times per year Dr. Keyhani talks to middle school and high school student about a variety of topics including life in medicine and the pathway to get there, healthy lifestyle and current topics such as COVID. He has worked to engage our Somali Muslim Community through setting up a Wellness talk.
Clinical Summary
Hospital Medicine, Substance Use Disorder, Evidence Based Medicine, Rural Emergency Medicine, Office Based Procedures, Wellness, Integrative Medicine
Education
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 28th Street East
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bio
Following residency, William Knopp, MD, completed a sports medicine fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Fontana, California. He has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in primary care sports medicine and is past director of a primary care sports medicine fellowship at MacNeal Hospital in Illinois. Dr. Knopp is actively involved in the sports medicine curriculum at the University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency and volunteers at Minnetonka High School, caring for student athletes.
Clinical Summary
Sports medicine and medical education
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Park Nicollet Clinic St. Louis Park Creekside6600 Excelsior Blvd #160
St Louis Park, MN 55426
Bio
Alison Knutson, PharmD, is a faculty pharmacist and clinical preceptor at the University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency. She also precepts at Phillips Neighborhood Clinic.
Clinical Summary
Comprehensive medication management, mental health, and pain management
Contact
Address
Park Nicollet Clinic St. Louis Park Creekside6600 Excelsior Blvd #160
St Louis Park, MN 55426
Bio
Clarice Konshok, MD, has been clinical faculty at the Centracare St. Cloud Family Medicine Residency since 2014 and Co-Associate Program Director since 2016. Having trained at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Washington D.C., she spent her early career as an active-duty Air Force Physician. She then returned to her home state of Minnesota and spent 10 years in Park Rapids/Menahga, Minnesota practicing full-spectrum family medicine. She also was able to serve in the Duluth Air National Guard for 13 years until retiring as a Colonel in 2018. Her clinical interests include pediatrics and women's health, dermatology, POCUS, aviation medicine, and international medicine.
Research Summary
Deprescribing in the office setting, self-compassion and wellness, reviewing medical literature.
Creative Activity Summary
Hobbies and pursuits include private pilot, skiing, Norwegian Elkhounds and reading.
Service Summary
Community Health Coordinator, 2019 to present
Project Heal Clinics
Menahga First Responders, Medical Director 2006-2014
USAF Active Duty with deployments to Kuwait and Duluth Air National Guard with deployments to Iraq, Estonia, and Korea
Short-term Medical Missions:
- Helps International, Guatemala 2022
- Global Health Outreach, Ecuador, 2005
- New Horizons, USAF, Grenada, 2003
Clinical Summary
Seven weeks per year inpatient on service and 2-4 half days outpatient clinic per week. Call coverage 1:7 to include OB, Office procedures to include colposcopy.
Certifications
Board Certified in Family Medicine
Fellow American Academy of Family Medicine (FAAFP)
Licensed in Minnesota
CALS, BLS, ACLS, ALSO Instructor, PALS, NRP
Memberships
American Academy of Family Physicians
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
Christian Medical and Dental Association
Minnesota Medical Association
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Languages
Selected Presentations
Contact
Address
CentraCare - Family Health Clinic1555 Northway Drive, Suite 200
St. Cloud, MN 56303-1867
Administrative Contact
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
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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 W Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
As a faculty member and medical director of the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency at Smiley's Clinic, Carrie Link, MD, participates in clinical education, research, and primary care for all ages and all genders. She most strongly values a patient-first approach. Her medical interests include improving healthcare access, bedside teaching, gender care, and whole family care, in the context of one's family and community.
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 28th Street East
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bio
Katie Loth, PhD, MPH, RD, is an assistant professor and associate vice chair for faculty affairs in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Loth is both a researcher and a practicing clinical dietitian. Her research explores social and environmental influences on child and adolescent dietary intake, eating behaviors, weight status, and disordered eating behaviors. Specifically, she is interested in identifying ways that parents and primary care providers can work to help the children in their care develop and maintain a healthy relationship with food and with their bodies.
Dr. Loth provides nutrition counseling and medical nutrition therapy to patients of all ages at M Physicians Broadway Family Medicine Clinic. She is also on the faculty for the North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program, where she helps to train residents on topics related to medical nutrition therapy.
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.
Contact
Address
717 Delaware St SE, Room 420Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
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.
Contact
Address
2426 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411Bio
Lynn Manning, MD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency. She has interests in chronic disease management, diabetes care, obstetrical ultrasound, scholarly activity including screening for food insecurity and social determinants of health. She also has interests in population health and coordinates daily didactic noon conferences.
Bio
Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH, CSE, is a sex and relationship researcher and educator. She is the current Joycelyn Elders Endowed Chair for Sexual Health Education and Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School's Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). She is affiliate faculty at the Kinsey Institute with a national and international reputation as a sexual scientist and educator. Her research program centers around sexual well-being, specifically the maintenance of sexual and relationship satisfaction and sexual desire in long-term relationships, sexual function and dysfunction, sexual trauma, and sexual desire discrepancy. Dr. Mark is committed to community advocacy for inclusive comprehensive sexual health education that integrates messages of sexual pleasure and works to change sex education policy at state and national levels. Dr. Mark holds degrees in psychology, family science, biostatistics, and public health and her research and therapeutic approaches are as interdisciplinary as her training. She consistently publishes her scientific research in the top journals and has presented her work through hundreds of talks nationally and internationally. Additionally, Dr. Mark is regularly relied upon as an expert to digest sex and relationship science to print, radio, and television media. Pronouns: she/her/hers
Contact
Address
Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bio
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.
Contact
Address
M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
Saint Paul, MN, 55103
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
Contact
Address
Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Dr. McCabe has been University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health faculty since 1995 and the program director of the Mankato family medicine residency program since 2003. His interests and expertise include resident medical education, sustainable practice, finding one’s passion within broad spectrum family medicine, rural medicine, geriatrics, and office-based procedures.
Clinical Summary
Rural family medicine, office dermatology procedures, colposcopy, and OB ultrasound.
Grants and Patents
Selected Grants
Contact
Address
Mayo Clinic Health System EastridgeMankato, MN 56001
Bio
Terri McCarthy, MD, MS, is faculty at the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation. She served as the physician team lead for the interprofessional geriatric education program at Walker Methodist Health Center Transitional Care Unit. McCarthy's research experience includes falls, urinary incontinence, osteoporosis, care transitions/rehospitalization, and interprofessional teams.
Clinical Summary
Geriatric syndrome assessment and management, geriatric education, interprofessional team care, transitions management, long-term care medical direction, comprehensive geriatric assessment.
Contact
Address
Room 454-4717 Delaware St SE
Mpls, MN 55414
Bio
Dr. Mell is an adjunct assistant professor at Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. He has a near full-spectrum family medicine practice, including pediatric care, adolescent health, men’s and women’s health, sports medicine and geriatrics. He is particularly interested in office procedures such as skin shaves, mole biopsies and other dermatology procedures as well as joint injections.
Clinical Summary
- Dermatology
- Sports Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Geriatrics
- Full Spectrum (Non-Ob) Family Medicine
Education
Bio
Dr. Merten is a family physician and medical educator working within the Park Nicollet System and University of Minnesota Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program. He is most passionate about caring for all age groups, education initiatives, quality improvement, primary care practice-based research, and teaching and performing ambulatory primary care procedures.
Research Summary
I am interested in medical education research and innovation. I am also interested in research projects that can be implemented and studied in the primary care setting.
Clinical Summary
Medical education
Office-based procedures
Substance use disorder treatment
Preventive medicine
Weight management
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Contact
Address
3850 Park Nicollet Blvd., St. Louis Park, MN 55416Administrative Contact
Gage White
gage.white@parknicollet.com
1-952-993-7711
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
Contact
Address
Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 W Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Michael Miner, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). His areas of research include treatment of sex offenders, etiology of sexual abuse, and compulsive sexual behavior. Miner's research has been funded by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Justice. Beyond his primary research, Miner serves as co-investigator on many federal grants due to his expertise in research design and statistics. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on sex offender treatment, forensic assessment, instrument development, and evaluation methodology. His clinical work includes sex offender treatment and relationship and sexual dysfunction. Miner is past vice president of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and is past president of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He received the Profession Service Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Miner received his PhD from St. Louis University.
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Suite 180 WBOB1300 S 2nd St
Minneapolis, MN 55454
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Katherine Montag Schafer, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, is an associate 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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
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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.
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University of Minnesota 7-172 Weaver-Densford Hall 308 Harvard St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455Bio
Dr. de Brito is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. de Brito is a social-behavioral epidemiologist and a trained dietitian. Her research focuses on investigating the interplay of structural and social determinants of health and health-related behaviors that contribute to obesity and cardiometabolic health disparities among children and families of racialized and other marginalized groups.
Research Summary
Physical activity and sedentary behaviors, eating behaviors, mental health, pediatric obesity, cardiometabolic health, health disparities, mHealth, device-based measures, life course epidemiology, mixed-methods.
Teaching Summary
Social and behavioral epidemiology, social determinants of health, eating behaviors, physical activity and sedentary behaviors, cardiometabolic health, pediatric obesity, maternal and child health, positive deviance, green spaces, and health disparities.
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717 Delaware Street SE, Rm 424Minneapolis, MN 55414
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Shannon Neale, MD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Her medical interests include OB, maternal and child health, and practice management. She is also the chair of the Family Medicine department at Park Nicollet.
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Park Nicollet Clinic - Creekside6600 Excelsior Blvd, Suite 100
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
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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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St
St Paul, MN 55103
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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
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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 W Broadway
Minneapolis, MN 55411
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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.
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University of Minnesota717 Delaware St SE, Rm 421
Minneapolis, MN 55414
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Jennifer Oberstar, MD, FAAFP, CAQ SM, is an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Sports Medicine program. Seeing patients at MHealth Fairview Sports Medicine Clinic (CSC) and being the sports medicine liaison at M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's allows clinical time for developing patient relationships. Dr. Oberstar is a sports medicine educational lead and clinical instructor for medical students and residents. Among her other leadership roles she is coordinating the program and functioning as an advisor for Exercise Is Medicine On Campus (EIM-OC). Dr. Oberstar covers community events such as high school game coverage, the Twin Cities Marathon, City of Lakes Loppet and Minnesota High School League state tournaments in multiple sports. She is currently a co-medical director for the USA Cup soccer tournament in Blaine, Minnesota. Her research interests focus on Exercise Is Medicine in the community and on medical device development for training ultrasound guided injections. Physicians from other medical disciplines have collaborated with her to publish in scholarly journals.
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 28th Street East
Minneapolis, MN 55407
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Joseph Ofstedal, MD, practices family medicine at the University of Minnesota Physicians Primary Care Center.
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
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6-240 Phillips-Wangensteen Building516 Delaware St SE/MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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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
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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
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Broadway Family Medicine2426 W Broadway
Minneapolis, MN 55411
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Tina Ozbeki, MD, is a family medicine physician who cares for patients through all ages and stages of life. She has special interests in preventive health, women’s health, and addiction medicine. Dr. Ozbeki cares for patients at University of Minnesota Physicians Mill City Clinic and at M Health Fairview Women’s Clinic. Dr. Ozbeki is also an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Clinical Summary
Women's health, behavioral health, and addiction medicine.
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Mill City Clinic901 S. 2nd St, Suite A
Minneapolis, MN 55415
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James Pacala, MD, MS, is professor and head of the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Pacala has performed research and published extensively on models of care delivery to geriatric populations and innovative teaching methods. He is a past president of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and is co-author of the AGS practice handbook, Geriatrics At Your Fingertips. Pacala currently chairs the UCare Board of Directors. In 2013, he was appointed to the 2013-14 Health and Aging Policy Fellowship. He is also PI for the Minnesota Northstar Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program.
Clinical Summary
Geriatrics, medical student education, and health services research.
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PWB 6-240420 Delaware St. SE, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Kara Pacala, MD, joined the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency faculty in 2004. She brings a background in social work to her clinical practice and teaching and is consistently ranked in the top 10 percent of University of Minnesota Physicians for patient satisfaction.
Clinical Summary
Urban community health, refugee and immigrant health, women’s health, and reproductive rights.
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 E. 28th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
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C.J. Peek, PhD, joined U of M Family Medicine and Community Health faculty in 2008 as a consulting psychologist. He specializes in leadership development, organizational effectiveness, interprofessional communication, clinical platform development, and integration of medical and mental health care. Dr. Peek belongs to the American Psychological Association, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, and Society for Descriptive Psychology.
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
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516 Delaware St. SE6-240 Phillips-Wangensteen Building, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Justin Penny, DO, MA, is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program (Smiley's). He holds a joint appointment in the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics as a Clinical Ethics Assistant Professor and is also a member of the Clinical Ethics Consult team providing clinical ethics services for the M Health Fairview System. Dr. Penny received his DO and MA in Bioethics from Kansas City University. He completed his medical residency in family medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Penny obtained the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) credential in 2023.
Research Summary
The intersection of LGBTQ+ care and bioethics, care delivery and medical education concerning transgender and gender nonconforming care, the needs for an aging LGBTQ+ population, and informed consent.
Clinical Summary
Full spectrum family medicine including inpatient medicine and obstetrics, LGBTQ+ comprehensive care including HRT and HIV prevention, medication-assisted therapy for opiate use disorders, and osteopathic manipulation.
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 East 28th St
Minneapolis, MN 55407-1394
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Dr. Pereira is dedicated to the goal of improving pharmacy practice and medical practice by implementing concepts of pharmaceutical care into patient care. He believes pharmacy practice can serve to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and further improve the health of a community. Dr. Pereira's current practice is located at Smiley's Clinic in Minneapolis. Smiley's Clinic is a family medicine clinic that is part of the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program.
Research Summary
Dr. Pereira's research and scholarship interests are focused on patient care, continuous quality improvement and public/community health. Current projects includes curriculum design to improving interprofessional education through assessment and exploring ways the medication experience may be identified for the benefit of patient care. Research projects: Ambulatory Care APPE Co-op research in the use of a pre and post ambulatory care examination; ambulatory Care APPE Co-op research in the measure of patient encounters and student performed patient education skills to measure competency for students while on APPEs; and post hospital follow-up appointments in a primary care center and the impact pharmacist intervention can have to improve overall care.
Teaching Summary
Dr. Pereira enjoys training pharmacy students and residents at Smiley's Clinic. Smiley's is an established five-week APPE for PharmD candidates. The pharmacy resident completes year one of the two-year Leadership Residency at Smiley's Clinic. In both cases, learners work with a care team to provide care within the medical home model. Pharmacy learners work directly with patients to apply pharmaceutical care skills with the goal to optimize drug therapy and health outcomes. The educational mission is to understand how to apply evidence-based medicine to patients with limited resources as well as complicated medical histories.
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7-103 Weaver-Densford HallBio
Dennis Peterson, MD, joined faculty at the University of Minnesota / CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital Family Medicine Residency in 2013, after practicing full-spectrum rural family medicine in Willmar, MN for 22 years. With over 20 years of medical student training as a University of Minnesota preceptor, he has now developed our UMN Medical School MetroPAP longitudinal rotation. He currently co-chairs the UMN Family Medicine Point of Care US (POCUS) training program, and has also developed St. Cloud's POCUS training curriculum using SONOSIM. His medical interests include full spectrum rural family medicine with OB, pediatrics, and emergency medicine.
Service Summary
RPAP, MetroPAP, POCUS
Clinical Summary
Maternity care
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CentraCare - Family Health Clinic1555 Northway Drive, Suite 200
St. Cloud, MN 56303-1867
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The research of Kevin A. Peterson, MD, MPH, FRCS(Ed), FAAFP, focuses on diabetes, chronic disease management, practice-based research, bioinformatics, and clinical trials in primary care. He has been the principle investigator (PI) or site-PI on many National Institutes of Health-funded studies, including ACCORD-ASPREE, TRANSLATE, and the creation of a national electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN).Having licensed several UMN innovations, Peterson also provides advice and oversight for the University's MIN-REACH program. He leads the Center of Excellence in Primary Care and previously directed the national AHRQ PBRN Resource Center. Peterson serves on the editorial board for Diabetes Care , the clinical care journal of the American Diabetes Association. He also serves on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's peer review standing study section, Health Care Research Training until September 2020.Peterson has been recognized for his contributions by the National Institutes of Health, National Diabetes Education Program, the American Diabetes Association, and the Minnesota Department of Health.He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine, a faculty member of the UMN Institute of Engineering in Medicine, and an affiliate fellow of the University of Minnesota Institute for Health Informatics.
Clinical Summary
Family medicine; Diabetes management
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PWB 6-209420 Delaware St. SE, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
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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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
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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.
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
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Mayo Building, Suite C311420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Rebekah Pratt, PhD, is research faculty in the U of M Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
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717 Delaware Street SE, Suite 454Minneapolis, MN 55414
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Teresa Quinn, MD, is a faculty member at the University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency, holds a Certificate of Added Qualifications in geriatrics, and is boarded in medical hypnosis. She has worked in busy practice settings; as medical director of an FQHC community clinic in St. Paul; and as a volunteer physician in refugee camps in Thailand. Currently, Quinn is completing a Bush medical fellowship with a focus on improving health care for older patients and Medicare policy.
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Park Nicollet Clinic St. Louis Park Creekside6600 Excelsior Blvd #160
St Louis Park, MN 55426
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Ryan Rahm-Knigge, PhD, completed his doctoral training in Counseling Psychology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, where his research focused on health-risk sexual behavior and individual differences (such as emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, and sensation seeking), as well as HIV treatment adherence. Before joining the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, Dr. Rahm-Knigge completed his psychology internship in Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, RI. Dr. Rahm-Knigge also worked as a Licensed Professional counselor before starting his PhD. Dr. Rahm-Knigge’s research and clinical interests focus on the effects of individual differences on health-risk sexual behavior and compulsive sexual behavior.
Pronouns: he/him
Education
PhD, Colorado State University
Master of Science, Counseling Psychology, Colorado State University
Master of Science, Counseling and Human Resource Development, South Dakota State University
Bio
Timothy Ramer, MD, serves as Program Director of UMN Medical Center Family Medicine Program and has since 2018. He has been at M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's since 1990, first as resident, then faculty, then Medical Director, and now Program Director. Dr. Ramer is passionate about family medicine and training the next generation of family medicine physicians. He loves the diversity the specialty offers and the ability to change the focus as the needs of the population changes.
Clinical Summary
Specialties: POCUS and mindfulness
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 E. 28th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
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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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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
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Christopher Reif, MD, MPH, serves as director of clinical services of the Community-University Health Care Center and is involved in medical student education, co-directing the Urban Community Ambulatory Medicine (UCAM) clerkship and precepting for the Family Medicine Clerkship. He is a charter member of the National Assembly of School Based Health Care and former board chair of the Minnesota Organization for Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention, and Parenting.
Clinical Summary
Adolescent Medicine
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Community-University Health Care Center2001 Bloomington Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55404
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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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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
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Nic Rider, Ph.D. (they/them) is an assistant professor, a licensed psychologist, and the Adult Gender Services Program Coordinator at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). They are also the Director of the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health. Dr. Rider's research broadly focuses on improving healthcare for and exploring resilience among marginalized communities, with a focus on sexual and gender diverse people of color. They often focus on social and structural factors impacting the lived experiences of historically excluded communities and resilience/strengths identified by these communities. Dr. Rider's clinical training includes psychotherapy and assessment experiences in a university counseling center, hospital settings, private practice, community clinic, residential treatment, and juvenile justice settings. Their professional interests are in the areas of intersectionality, improving various health disparities, sexual health and pleasure, decolonizing healing justice, systems change and social justice advocacy. They serve as the Co-Chair for the Asian American Psychological Association's Division on LGBTQQ and participate on committees advocating for queer and trans individuals globally. Dr. Rider received a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Howard University in Washington, D.C. Pronouns: they/them/theirs.
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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William Roberts, MD, MS, is professor emeritus, former 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. He is also 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
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Selected Presentations
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave East
St Paul, MN 55106
Bio
Bean "Bean" Robinson, Ph.D., is professor, MN Licensed Psychologist (LP), MN Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and State-approved LMFT Supervisor at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). Dr. Robinson received her PhD from the University of Minnesota and received NIMH funding to complete a postdoctoral training in Asian-American mental health and research methods at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her current area of emphasis is exploring the sexual health of Somali women living in Minnesota who have experienced female genital cutting/circumcision/female genital mutilation. Other foci of her professional activities have been examining and promoting HIV prevention in sexual and ethnic minority communities (African-born HIV- positive men, African American women and men, HIV-positive African American men who have sex with men, men who have sex with men, Hmong women and men, bisexual women, and transgender individuals) and examining risk factors leading to sexual offending. She is a researcher-clinician who investigates and develops new methods, techniques, and programs to promote sexual and psychological health; she has been a practicing psychotherapist/clinician her entire career. Dr. Robinson has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and books, has been the principal or co-investigator on numerous research grants, and is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. She is an active teacher and has provided clinical training for psychologists, marriage and family therapists, medical students and residents. She has also developed HIV/STD prevention curricula and has given numerous presentations at professional meetings nationally and internationally. She is the past-president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and Executive Director for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. Pronouns: she/her/hers.
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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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
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St. John's Hospital1575 Beam Ave
Maplewood, MN 55109
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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
Bio
Editor of Fast Facts and Concepts ; member of Journal of Palliative Medicine editorial board; member of American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine clinical education committee; named a "2017 Top Doctor" by Minnesota Monthly
Bio
Michael Ross, MD, PhD, MPH, MHPEd, MSt, is a professor at the University of Minnesota Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH) and was the Joycelyn Elders Chair in Sexual Health Education from 2014-2020. He holds 11 degrees, including a MedDr, a PhD in cross-cultural health psychology, and degrees in criminology and health education. Ross has studied sexuality and sexual and mental health for more than 30 years in several countries: India, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam. Ross has also published more than 500 publications and books. Additionally, he worked extensively in prison environments and wrote a book about prison physical and mental health. Ross has also practiced as a clinical psychologist and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the British Psychological Society.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Creative Activity Summary
Licences -- Australian and US Private Pilot, land/single, both current
Aircraft ratings -- Avions Pierre Robin 2160 Aerobin, Bellanca 8KCAB Super Decathlon; and Pitts S-2A Special (all with unrestricted aerobatic ratings)
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bio
Dr. Salmen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and serves as the Director of the UMN-OHR Mfangano Community Health Field Station in Western Kenya. Dr. Salmen brings extensive experience in medical anthropology and community-based research, particularly within HIV hyperendemic fishing communities of Lake Victoria, Kenya.Through a 2007 Rhodes Scholarship to the Oxford University Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Dr. Salmen conducted 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork on Mfangano Island exploring the surprising relationship between the Nile Perch Fishing industry and HIV epidemiology in the region. During this time on Mfangano Island, Dr. Salmen worked with local stakeholders and community leaders to help establish a community health organization called the Organic Health Response (organichealthresponse.org). Dr. Salmen also recruited and trained local investigators to establish the first community-based research department on Mfangano Island at the Ekialo Kiona Community Center. This team of investigators has completed numerous longitudinal studies to evaluate novel interventions to address HIV/AIDS, maternal health and food security issues facing these remote communities. Dr. Salmen completed his medical training at UCSF School of Medicine, and his residency at the UMN North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program. In collaboration with the UMN Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, Dr. Salmen now leads the development of a local-global collaboration between UMN and the Organic Health Response, supporting longitudinal global health research, training for US and Kenyan graduate students, and innovative health programming through the "Mfangano Community Health Field Station".
Clinical Summary
Family Medicine and Community Health, Underserved Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Community-Based Research, HIV/AIDS and related issues in rural East Africa
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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Dr. Jamie Santilli provides clinical ambulatory primary care services at the University of Minnesota M Health Clinics and Surgery Center (CSC) and the Primary Care Clinic (PCC). She also has been a member of the University of Minnesota Medical Candidate Admission committee since 2010 serving a leadership role as Co-chair from 2015-2017. Jamie's work and area of interest include clinical prevention, women's health, and primary care. Previously, she worked as a faculty member at San Francisco Family Medicine, University of California.
Research Summary
Peripheral Vascular Disease, Women's Health, Graduate Medical Education
Clinical Summary
Ambulatory Primary Care, Prevention & Health Promotion, Women's Health including contraceptive procedures, and Peripheral Vascular Disease, Clinical Guidelines Development
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
Contact
Address
M Health Fairview Clinics and Surgery Center909 Fulton St SE, MMC 2121DB
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bio
David Satin, MD, is the department compliance officer and risk management leader. Within the Medical School, he directs the core topics in ethics, law, policy, healthcare finance, and quality improvement. He serves as a preceptor in the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency (Smiley's Clinic.) At the continuing professional development level (formerly known as CME) he co-directs the Rothenberger Leadership Academy. He has served on several AMA workgroups making quality measures for CMS, testified to pass Minnesota legislation requiring social risk adjustment within State Pay-for-Performance programs, and has consulted internationally on issues in Value-Based Payment. He currently chairs the Risk Adjustment and Segmentation Committee of Minnesota Community Measurement and serves on its Measurement and Reporting Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Department of Family Medicine, Stratis Health, and the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety.
Research Summary
Dr. Satin’s research interests span the field of health systems science, with publications on quality improvement, public health, behavioral economics, shared decision-making, and topics in bioethics.
Clinical Summary
Underserved medicine, hospital medicine, bioethics, family medicine, and inpatient medicine.
Contact
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PWB, 6-167420 Delaware St. SE, MMC 381
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0356
Bio
Thomas Satre, MD, directs the University of Minnesota CentraCare St. Cloud Family Medicine Residency. He is also the editor-in-chief of the HelpDesk Answers project for the Family Physicians Inquiries Network. He mentors residents in research and writing. Other pursuits include transforming medical practice to improve quality and value in a patient-centered manner.
Clinical Summary
Medical information management, mentoring resident scholarly activity, medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction, maternity care, and quality improvement.
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CentraCare - Family Health Clinic1555 Northway Drive, Suite 200
St. Cloud, MN 56303-1867
Bio
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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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
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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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
I practice full-spectrum family medicine caring for all ages. I enjoy helping people meet their health goals and get active. I like working with athletes of all levels from weekend warriors to high-level competitors. I use ultrasound for diagnostic purposes and for injections. I like working in the hospital and taking care of patients in acute care settings.
Research Summary
Sports medicine, health disparities
Creative Activity Summary
Movies, biking, cooking
Service Summary
Sideline sports coverage
Clinical Summary
Sports medicine, obstetrics, addiction medicine, hospital medicine, ultrasound, ultrasound guided procedures, fitness
Education
Professional Memberships
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda, 580 Rice St., St. Paul, MN 55103Bio
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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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
Bio
Katie Spencer, PhD, LP is an assistant professor, licensed psychologist, and clinical training director at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH). She is also the co-director of M Health Fairview Comprehensive Gender Care, Behavioral Health. Her primary clinical practice is working with transgender and gender non-conforming, adolescents, and adults, women's sexuality and sexual health, and LGBT sexuality and well-being. Dr. Spencer has written, presented and published scholarship on transgender sexuality, queer femininities, and gender affirmative approaches to transgender healthcare. She provides training and education of therapists and medical providers in sexual health and transgender health care competency. She is developing a curriculum of pleasure based sexuality for people on the transfeminine spectrum and working, with her colleagues, to revise existing measures of gendered experience to improve congruence with transaffirmative philosophies. She is the founder and chair of the Minnesota Transgender Health Insurance Taskforce and often provides consultation and advocacy on insurance and policy issues in transgender health. Dr. Spencer and her colleague, Dr. Dianne Berg are the authors of the Gender Affirmative Lifespan Approach (GALA™) of Psychotherapy and Education that is the theoretical framework for the clinical-research program of the Gender Health Services at ISGH. Dr. Spencer received her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and she was a postdoctoral fellow in human sexuality at ISGH. She is passionate about social justice and feminist approaches to academic scholarship and clinical practice. Pronouns: she/her/hers.
Clinical Summary
Transgender and gender non-conforming adolescents and adults, women’s sexuality and sexual health, LGBT sexuality and well-being
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Institute for Sexual and Gender Health1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bio
Dr. Stelter believes in allowing patients to tell him everything that is on their list, and then approaching each problem with a shared decision plan for each issue. He emphasizes a healthy lifestyle to prevent disease and also tries to limit reliance on medications as the only solution. He is from a very small town in southwest Minnesota and enjoys being outdoors as much as possible. In his free time, Dr. Stelter enjoys volunteering in his community.
Clinical Summary
Dr. Stelter's special interests include cardiovascular diseases, care of vulnerable populations, chronic disease management, health policy and access to care, health promotion and wellness, and quality improvement methods.
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Professional Memberships
Contact
Address
Mayo Clinic Health System Eastridge101 Martin Luther King Jr Dr
Mankato, MN 56001
Bio
Steven Stovitz, MD, MS, is a family physician and a subspecialist in primary care sports medicine. He serves as a rater for McMaster's Online Rating of Evidence and serves as an associate editor at the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the journal Medicine and Science in Sport and the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise . His main research interest is the interpretation and translation of research findings for the practice of evidence-based medicine. He has particular interests in how the principles of causal inference apply to clinical decision-making, and also in how the statistical literacy of clinicians affects the shared clinical decision making process.
Research Summary
My main research interest is in the interpretation and translation of research findings for the practice of Evidence Based Medicine. I have a particular interest in how the principles of Causal Inference apply to clinical decision making and also in statistical literacy for clinicians.
Clinical Summary
Family medicine, sports medicine, lifestyle medicine
Selected Presentations
Contact
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Mill City Clinic901 S. 2nd St, Suite A
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Bio
Family-Centered Trauma-informed care for Latinx youth and their families, and youth in general. Community-Based Participatory Research and Health Equity Leadership. Sustainable interventions for youth Integrative Care, including Mental Health.
Languages
Bio
Prior to joining the University of Minnesota CentraCare St. Cloud Family Medicine Residency, Kevin Switzer, MD, practiced at a rural clinic in Willmar, Minnesota, for 20 years and precepted for the University of Minnesota Rural Physician Associate Program.
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CentraCare - Family Health Clinic1555 Northway Drive, Suite 200
St. Cloud, MN 56303-1867
Bio
Jennifer Tarpenning, MD, is faculty at the University of Minnesota/CentraCare St. Cloud Family Medicine Residency. She is involved in the Metropolitan Physician Associate Program. She practices full spectrum family medicine including obstetrics.
Contact
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1555 Northway Dr Ste 200 St. Cloud, MN 56303Bio
Frances Tepolt, MD, joined as faculty at the University of Minnesota St. Cloud Family Medicine Residency in 2021. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota St. John’s Hospital Family Medicine Residency and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Prior to this, she served on active duty with the United States Navy and is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Her clinical interests include diabetes care, hospital medicine, sports medicine, and the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
Research Summary
Research interests:
- Colon cancer screening – timely colonoscopy follow-up after abnormal stool-based testing
- Sports medicine
Clinical Summary
Chronic disease management; preventative medicine; sports medicine; hospital medicine
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Contact
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CentraCare Family Health Clinic, 1555 Northway Drive, Suite 200, St. Cloud, MN 56303Bio
Chelsea Thibodeau, DO, serves as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Thibodeau was drawn to this program by the incredible group of faculty, residents, and staff committed to excellent, compassionate care for all patients and families. Some of her clinical interests include reproductive health, obstetrics, osteopathic medicine, patient-centered communication, behavioral health in primary care, and health equity.
Clinical Summary
Reproductive health, obstetrics, osteopathic medicine, patient-centered communication, behavioral health in primary care, health equity
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's2020 E. 28th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Bio
Joshua Thompson, MD, MPH joined the faculty in 2018 and sees patients at the University of Minnesota Physicians Mill City Clinic. His clinical and research interests include preventive medicine and the health of LGBTQ patients.
Contact
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Mill City Clinic901 S. 2nd St, Suite A
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Bio
Dr. Traxler is a core faculty member for the Smiley's Family Medicine Residency. Through the residency, he is involved in outpatient, inpatient, and obstetrical care for patients. His medical interests revolve around maternal care, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. His academic focuses are on improving procedural and simulation teaching in medicine.
Research Summary
Dr. Traxler's prior research has focused on procedural and simulation teaching, including a grant to create simulation models incorporating 3D printing to improve fidelity and feasibility. His other projects have revolved around curriculum development in residency.
Teaching Summary
Dr. Traxler enjoys teaching in all the different environments that medical education offers. He works with residents in the clinic, inpatient, and obstetrics settings, providing education in full spectrum family medicine care. During large group lectures, he works to incorporate cases, questions, and small group activities to improve participation and retention.
Service Summary
Throughout his medical training, Dr. Traxler volunteered at community clinics such as the Guadalupe clinic in Wichita and the Free Medical Clinic in Iowa City. As a new Minnesota resident, he is looking forward to finding opportunities to serve the community here in the Twin Cities.
Clinical Summary
Dr. Traxler tries to embody the 'cradle to grave' mentality that makes family medicine both unique and rewarding. Through clinic, he provides prenatal, pediatric, and adult medicine in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.
Certifications
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics/ ALSO
Advanced Trauma Life Support
Basic Life Support
Neonatal Resuscitation Program
Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Education
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Contact
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2020 E. 28th St. Minneapolis, MN 55407Administrative Contact
Bio
Dr. Wehseler and his family moved to Spicer from Rochester in 1998. His medical interests include obstetrics, emergency medicine and sports medicine. His professional interest is ongoing physician professional development and continuing medical education.
Education
Professional Memberships
Bio
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.
Education
Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements
Licensures and Certifications
Honors and Recognition
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Grants and Patents
Patents
Contact
Address
M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda580 Rice St.
St. Paul, MN 55103
Bio
April Wilhelm, MD, MPH, is a faculty physician and clinician-researcher at the University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency and the Program for Health Disparities Research. 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 child and adolescent tobacco prevention and control.
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
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
Administrative Contact
Jack Smith
smit8053@umn.edu
Bio
David Wilkins, DO, is a psychiatrist and behavioral medicine educator at the University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency.
Research Summary
Psychiatric care for adults and adolescents
Contact
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Park Nicollet Clinic St. Louis Park Creekside6600 Excelsior Blvd #160
St Louis Park, MN 55426
Bio
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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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Dr. Serena Xiong is a community-engaged implementation scientist. Her program of research draws on the tenets of designing, implementing, and communicating research for a more equitable world. It incorporates participatory research approaches (e.g., community-based participatory research, human-centered design principles) to address cancer-related health disparities. She has a history of implementing evidence-based and multilevel strategies for increasing cervical cancer screening (e.g., HPV self-sampling) and HPV vaccination across clinical settings, schools, and other organizations.
Bio
Dr. Yapel is a pharmacist and adjunct faculty member. Her teaching interests include clinical management / guideline review of common chronic disease states such at diabetes and hypertension. Clinical interests include diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and support of patients engaging in opioid tapering.
Research Summary
Understanding the impact of collaborative care of patients between primary and behavioral health systems. Teaching pharmacy students concepts of social determinants of health through case-based learning and implementation of pharmacogenomic monitoring in a primary care clinic system.
Selected publications:
Schneiderhan ME, O'Donnell C, Jackson SK, MacDonald DA, Yapel AM, Renier CM, Albee JN, Hager KD. Bridging Community Mental Health and Primary Care to Improve Medication Monitoring and Outcomes for Patients With Mental Illness Taking Second-Generation Antipsychotics-Phase 2: Quality Improvement Initiative Over 15 Months. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2023 Jun 27;25(3):22m03432. doi: 10.4088/PCC.22m03432. PMID: 37419461.
Okoro ON, DeVuyst-Miller SA, MacDonald DA, Montag-Schafer KG, Pereira CR, Schweiss SK, Yapel AM. Integrating social determinants into pharmacotherapy courses: A case-based learning approach. Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2022 Nov;14(11):1438-1447. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2022.09.023. Epub 2022 Sep 23. PMID: 36154989.
Hager KD, Albee JN, O'Donnell C, Jackson S, King A, MacDonald DA, Nash C, Yapel A, Schneiderhan ME, Dean K. Impact of Interprofessional Care Conferences Across Primary Care and Mental Health Organizations on Family Medicine Resident Learning. Fam Med. 2021 Apr;53(4):289-294. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2021.329815. PMID: 33887052.
Brown JT, MacDonald D, Yapel A, Luczak T, Hanson A, Stenehjem DD. Integrating pharmacogenetic testing via medication therapy management in an outpatient family medicine clinic. Pharmacogenomics. 2021 Mar;22(4):203-212. doi: 10.2217/pgs-2020-0178. Epub 2021 Jan 20. PMID: 33470873.
Hundertmark ME, Waring SC, Stenehjem DD, Macdonald DA, Sperl DJ, Yapel A, et al. Pharmacist's attitudes and knowledge of pharmacogenomics and the factors that may predict future engagement. Pharm Pract (Granada). 2020;18(3):2008. Epub 2020/09/15. doi: 10.18549/PharmPract.2020.3.2008. PubMed PMID: 32922573; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC7470237.
Hager K, Kading M, O'Donnell C, Yapel A, MacDonald D, Albee JN, et al. Bridging Community Mental Health and Primary Care to Improve Medication Monitoring and Outcomes for Patients With Mental Illness Taking Second-Generation Antipsychotics-HDC/DFMC Bridge Project, Phase 1: Group Concept Mapping. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2019;21(4). Epub 2019/08/14. doi: 10.4088/PCC.19m02452. PubMed PMID: 31408282.
Licensures and Certifications
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330 North 8th Avenue East, Duluth, MN 55805Bio
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
Contact
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Broadway Family Medicine Clinic2426 West Broadway Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Bio
Dr. Zak-Hunter is the Director of Behavioral Health at St. John's Family Medicine Residency/Phalen Village Clinic. She completed her doctoral internship at St. John's in 2011. She provides integrated behavioral healthcare, teaches and oversees the family medicine residents' curriculum related to mental/behavioral/social health, physician office-based counseling and communication skills, and well-being/resilience. She supervises the behavioral health/medical family therapy pre-doctoral internship at St. John's. She is co-founder and chair of the Medical Family Therapy Consortium, a national group of professionals addressing workforce development, advocacy, training, and education for family therapists in healthcare settings. Her interests include integrated behavioral healthcare, medical family therapy, family centered healthcare, primary care approaches to trauma and adverse life experiences, and provider well-being.
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.
Selected Publications
Contact
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M Health Fairview Clinic - Phalen Village1414 Maryland Ave E
Saint Paul, MN 55106-2824
Bio
Dr. Zekri is interested in full-spectrum family medicine care. They aim to provide evidence-based, cost-conscious, autonomy-focused care from womb to tomb in contexts including: pregnancy care, newborn hospital care, care of families in the outpatient setting, and care of hospitalized individuals. They have a particular interest in care at the intersections of life, particularly from maternal-fetal dyad to maternal-infant dyad as a cornerstone of family medicine.
Teaching Summary
Dr. Zekri was previously teaching faculty at State University of New York Upstate and is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota in the department of Family Medicine at Bethesda/Woodwinds.