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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Name: Denise Jackson
Email: jacksond@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 741, Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Dr. Adriana Dhawan is an internal medicine/pediatrics hospitalist, a graduate from the University of Minnesota. Originally from New Mexico, Minnesota's well-developed global health curriculum drew her to the Midwest, where she plans to practice with a focus on hospital-based medicine and international health.

Research Summary

Global Health Education; Clinical Medicine

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Tanzania International Medicine Site Director; UMMC Inpatient Process of Care Clerkship Director

Clinical Summary

Hospital Medicine; Global Health

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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@umn.edu

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Dr. Brian Hilliard has a specific interest in health disparities and health policy. He is actively involved in promoting physician advocacy. His current projects include studying the impact of medicaid expansion on high utilizers and training physicians for advocacy and community engagement.

Research Summary

Health Disparities

Clinical Summary

Hospital Medicine

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Cindy Howard, MD, MPHTM, is a Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of the Global Pediatric Program at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Howard received her MD degree at the University of North Carolina, completed her pediatric residency at the University of Alabama Children's Hospital and her pediatric infectious disease fellowship and MPH in tropical medicine at Tulane University. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota Dr. Howard practiced in Germany, Nigeria, Uganda, and the inner city of Baltimore. She created an educational exchange program between the departments of pediatrics at the University of Maryland and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Her areas of interest include developing and measuring the effectiveness of global health curriculum; training/mentoring young men and women to address global child health challenges and the medical care of immigrant and refugee children. Dr. Howard has two children Christine and Loice, who were born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She enjoys time with her family, hiking, gardening, and reading.

Dr. Howard has received multiple awards including the The Drs. Anvar and Pari Velji Award for excellence in global health education from the Consortium of Universities in Global Health; the American Academy of Pediatrics' Education award and the Hillman-Olness Award for Lifetime Service and Lasting Contributions to Global Child Health; and the Golden Apple Award from Health Volunteers Overseas.

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Emily Danich
Administrative Phone: 612-625-2272
Administrative Email: edanich@umn.edu

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Abraham Jacob, MD, MHA, joined the Department of Pediatrics in 2005 to start and direct the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. The Division has grown substantially since 2005 and has become the largest service for admissions at M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital (UMMCH). The program currently provides inpatient pediatric services at UMMCH, Fairview Ridges Hospital, Maple Grove Hospital, and Shriners. Dr. Jacob served as Chief Medical Officer for UMMCH from 2012-2019 with a focus on patient safety, quality, and patient experience. He is now the Chief Quality Officer for MHealth Fairview and a a staff attending on the General Pediatrics service at UMMCH and on the Internal Medicine service at UMMC.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Jacob went on to medical school at the University of Toledo College of Medicine where he graduated in 1994. He went on to complete his Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics residency at the University of Minnesota in 1998. After completing residency, he helped to start the first combined Internal Medicine/ Pediatrics practice in the Twin Cities with five of his residency classmates and served as medical director of the clinic. Since coming to the University of MN as faculty, Dr. Jacob's main interests have included resident education, family centered care, quality improvement, and patient safety. He helped to lead an initiative at UMMCH that recently won the MN Hospital Association 2015 Patient Safety Improvement Award. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine.

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Kathleen Jost
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: Kathleen.Jost@fairview.org
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Chief resident of internal medicine.

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Dr. Krohn is an internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. She completed medical school and residency here in internal medicine and pediatrics. She completed the Stanford University - NBC News Fellowship in Global Health and Media in 2013 and spent two years working with Health Frontiers in Laos, teaching in the country's internal medicine and pediatric residency programs. Dr. Krohn believes everyone should be equipped with the tools they need to understand their health and to make healthy choices. As the Director of Online Content for our Global Medicine Program, Dr. Krohn works to ensure that providers know how to care for people from diverse backgrounds including underrepresented minorities, immigrants, and refugees right here in Minnesota. As the "thread" lead for medical communications with lay audiences in our Becoming a Doctor course for third and fourth-year medical students, Dr. Krohn teaches students strategies to improve their ability to talk with anyone about their health.

Research Summary

Medical Education How people outside of the field of medicine learn about medicine Medical Journalism

Clinical Summary

Global Health; Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine; Pediatrics; Refugee/Migration Health

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Dr. Maalouli is a native of Beirut, Lebanon who graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada with a bachelor's degree in Neurobiology. He went on to study medicine at the American University of Beirut then completed his pediatric residency at the Mount Sinai – St. Lukes Medical Center in Manhattan, New York.

Post residency, he practiced pediatric primary care in Illinois and New York then joined PACE Pediatrics in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2000 where he established one of the first electronic medical records system for primary care practices in the Twin Cities and introduced the first automated prescription dispensing system in Minnesota in private practice.

In 2008, he took on the responsibility of establishing the pediatric hospitalist program at Children's of Minnesota and successfully led it until 2012. He pioneered the use of scribes in the inpatient setting and developed a hospitalist run food allergy testing program in close cooperation with community allergists. Subsequently, he assumed the role of Chief Medical Officer at La Rabida Children's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois in 2012. During his tenure there, he actively led multiple quality and safety improvement initiatives, expanded the hospital referral network and re-organized the medical staff leadership and review process.

Dr. Maalouli rejoined his family back in Minnesota in 2014 and resumed his work in pediatric hospital medicine at the Mayo Clinic Health System before finally embarking on an academic career at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and pediatric hospitalist in 2016 where he is currently engaging in clinical research and teaching. He remains active in systems improvement as a member of the University of Minnesota Physicians Compliance and Risk Management committee and the Fairview Ridges Hospital Quality Improvement committee.

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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

Clinical Summary

Neural networks in the clinical diagnostic and management setting; Condition based predictive algorithms for clinical risk

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Name: Mena Vue
Phone: 612-624-3189
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Mail: 420 Delaware St SE
MMC 284 Mayo
8284B (Campus Delivery Code)
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Summary
Dr. Mustapha went to University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and then completed her internal medicine and pediatric residency training at the University of Minnesota. She spent a year as Chief Resident in the Department of Pediatrics prior to joining the faculty in both the departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, as a clinician educator and hospitalist. She is currently the Associate Program Director of the Med-Peds Residency Program and the Director of Clinical Coaching for the medical school. Her academic interests include both undergraduate and graduate medical education, with a focus on clinical performance and equity, diversity, and inclusion in the clinical learning environment.

Clinical Summary

Hospital medicine; Medical Education; Health Equity

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Dr. Lahn Nguyen is a Complex and Palliative care pediatrician. She received her DO from Des Moines University College of Medicine. After medical school she took a transitional year at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. Dr. Nguyen completed her residency in Pediatrics in Brooklyn, NY at the Coney Island Hospital, SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Kings County Hospital in 2019. Dr. Nguyen graduated from one of the largest Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship programs in the USA at UTHSCSA in San Antonio, TX in the Summer of 2020.

Dr. Nguyen spent her formative years growing up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota before moving to Des Moines, IA where she received her BA in Biology and History from Drake University. Her professional interests are rooted in the cultural aspects of medical care, the exploration of successful medical education practices and a passion for ethics. In her downtime Dr. Nguyen enjoys reading, quilting projects, hiking, and time with family and friends. She added a new dog, Brady to her family in 2020.

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Lynn Wodziak
Administrative Phone: 612-626-2602
Administrative Email: lleverco@umn.edu

Research Summary

Dr. Nguyen is interested in medical education and cultural aspects of care as it relates to complex care and chronic illness. 

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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@umn.edu
Mail: 420 Delaware Street SE
MMC 741
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Andrew Olson, MD, FACP, FAAP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he practices Hospital Medicine and Pediatrics. He serves as the Head of the Section of Hospital Medicine and Director of Hospital Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

Dr. Olson’s academic work focuses on understanding and improving clinical reasoning and decreasing diagnostic error as well as strategies to improve clinical reasoning performance through feedback in the clinical environment. He has led or participated in multiple national and international projects focused on improving diagnosis and health professions education.

Dr. Olson also serves as the Director of Medical Education Research and Innovation at the Medical Education Outcomes Center within the Medical School, focusing on linking educational with clinical and workforce outcomes in health professions education. He serves as the Chair of the Education Committee of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

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Dr. Pitt is a graduate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Northwestern University's Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Pitt believes that a good pediatrician must be a good educator and enjoys equipping medical students and residents with tools that improve bedside teaching, patient rapport, and parent's understanding of complex diseases in their children. He is an Associate Program Director for the University of Minnesota Pediatric Residency. An award-winning magician who has performed internationally since the age of 8, Dr. Pitt leads workshops for pediatricians on how to incorporate magic into the physical exam to ease anxiety, build rapport, and increase diagnostic yield.

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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Name: Mena Vue
Email: vuexx154@umn.edu
Fax: 612-624-3189
Mail: 420 Delaware ST SE
MMC 741
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Hope Pogemiller, MD, MPH, CTropMed ® is an internal medicine/pediatrics hospitalist, - Assistant Professor, - and Global Health Faculty in the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine. She served as a public health volunteer in Benin (West Africa) and has continued her interest in cross-cultural healthcare in Minneapolis and abroad. She worked with St. Damien's Pediatric Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the International Organization for Migration in Kampala, Uganda. Her work with refugees at the Center for International Health (as a resident) and with the IOM in Uganda led to the creation of an online medical interpreter training module for refugee settings. She worked with the Selian Hospital and Arusha Lutheran Medical Center in Arusha, Tanzania as a Global Health Chief Resident, and she served as an In-Country Clinical Lead for the trial, A Multicenter Randomized Safety and Efficacy Study of Putative Investigational Therapeutics in the Treatment of Patients with Known Ebola Infection, in Sierra Leone. Currently, she leads the inpatient portion of the BRIIDGE program (Bridge to Residency for Immigrant International Doctor Graduates through clinical Experience). With the Center of Excellence in Refugee Health, she is collaborating to update and expand CDC's screening guidelines for newly arrived refugees.

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Dr. Russell was born and raised in North Carolina, where much of her family still lives. She completed a double major at Oberlin College in Chemistry and Religion, with a focus on Ethics. After college she returned to North Carolina to complete medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, and joined the department of Pediatric Hospital Medicine in 2013. She works as a Pediatric Hospitalist at the M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital and at Maple Grove Hospital, where she is the currently the vice-chair of the Pediatric Department for the year 2016. Dr. Russell's clinical and academic interests include well nursery, surgical co-management, and quality improvement.

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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Dr. Sharon was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, spending as much time as possible at the Mediterranean Sea. He obtained his medical degree at Semmelwies University in Budapest, Hungary. After graduating from the Pediatric residency program at Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Sharon moved to Minneapolis to complete a Pediatric Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sharon then joined the University of Minnesota faculty. He is board certified in both General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. His clinical duties include roles in both infectious Disease and Pediatric Hospital Medicine. As an infectious disease specialist, he sees patients admitted to the hospital with infectious concerns and sees children and adolescents at his Infectious Disease outpatient clinics. As a Pediatric Hospitalist, Dr. Sharon sees children and adolescents who require hospital admission for general Pediatric issues, and he works at both the M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital and Fairview Ridges Hospital. He is also the director for the University of Minnesota Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship program.

His clinical interests include invasive bacterial infections in otherwise healthy children, as well as congenital CMV infection. He's also interested in continuing medical education, and is excited to lead the Hospitalist division's fellowship training program. When not in the hospital you may find him traveling with his family (either biking around town or globetrotting with his wife and three young children), or jumping out of airplanes just for fun.

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Cathy Centola
Administrative Phone: 612-625-6678
Administrative Email: kreme002@umn.edu
Administrative Fax Number: 612-626-1144

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Infectious disease

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Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@umn.edu

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Dr. Trappey graduated from medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 2008 and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota in 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics where he works as a hospitalist. He is an Associate Director of the Medical School's Center for the Art of Medicine, and his educational and research focus are on the intersection of art and medicine--focusing particularly on reflective writing and medical creative writing. His clinical interests include hospital medicine, medical education, and global health. He is a core-faculty member for the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program and serves as the faculty adviser for the Pediatric Global Health Track site at St. Damien Hospital in Port Au Prince, Haiti.

Clinical Summary

Medical reflective writing; Medical education; Global health education

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Name: Jaden Turner
Email: turne883@umn.edu 
Mail: 420 Delaware St SE, MMC 741, Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Dr. Wyman is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota Medical School, and completed residency training in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wyman currently practices hospital medicine at the University of Minnesota for adults and pediatrics as well as at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Pediatrics. In addition to clinical duties, she is the Director for Resident Ultrasound Education for the U of MN Internal Medicine Residency Programs. Her additional interests include global health, health disparities, medical education, and medical ethics. In her free time Dr. Wyman practices martial arts and spends times with her family.

Research Summary

• Medical Education
• Point of Care Ultrasound
• Global Health

Teaching Summary

• Introduction to Ultrasound
• Advanced Ultrasound Elective

Clinical Summary

• Evidence-based medicine
• Pediatric to Adult transitions of care
• Quality of Life
• Asthma
• Resident and Medical Student Education