Global Pediatrics Instructors
(formally called chiefs)
Standing Global Pediatrics Instructors
Cassidy Huun, MD
2023-2024
Major Projects:
Time abroad: Tanzania
Mounika Muttineni, DO
2022-2024
Major Projects:
Thermospot Efficacy in Neonates Undergoing Filtered Sunlight Phototherapy
Resident Debriefing from Global Elective
Bubble NIPPV: Guidelines for Use
Working as a hospitalist at Ridges
Working in outpatient peds in Cheyenne River, SD through our collaboration with Boston Children's to provide pediatric care to that community at their request.
Worked 4 months in India, in a city where she is fluent in the local language - there she collaborated with faculty and fellows in the teaching hospital to study the Neovent - a bi-pap machine which runs w/o electricity and was invented by one of our senior med-peds residents, Stephen John.
Helps to teach global education to our residents, leads the social media for the Global Pediatrics Program on Instagram and Twitter.
She is also one of the authors of a manuscript which we submitted last month to Pediatric Annals, The Challenging Landscape of Global Child Health Education in Pediatric Programs in the United States, the Impact of Covid 19 and Civil Unrest.
Time abroad:
India
Past Chiefs
Kindra Martinez, MD
2021-2022
Major Projects:
Worked as a neonatal hospitalist at Minneapolis Children's.
Worked in the NICU at Arusha Lutheran Medical Center for six months, teaching pediatric registrars there and precepting our residents who traveled to Tanzania for their global elective.
Publications:
Swanson SJ, Martinez KK+, Shaikh HA, Philipo GM, Martinez J, Mushi EJ. Every breath counts: Lessons learned in developing a training NICU in Northern Tanzania. Front Pediatr. 2022 Aug 25;10:958628. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.958628. PMID: 36090561; PMCID: PMC9452716.
Time abroad: Tanzania
Current position: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at University of North Carolina.
Phillip Plager, MD
2021-2022
Major Projects:
Worked primarily in Rosebud, South Dakota in the Lakota community with the Indian Health Service.
Worked as a hospitalist at Maple Grove and Ridges.
He worked in Saipan doing inpatient and outpatient work for 3 months.
Mentored our global track interns as they began their residency and precepted them in Rosebud on their electives there.
Helped plan and teach educational sessions for our residents.
He developed a curriculum with Dr. Mike Sundberg on the impact of settler colonization on Native American communities in the Great Plains.
Time abroad: Rosebud, South Dakota & Saipan
Current Position: Children's Minnesota
Alice Lehman, MD, CTropMed®
2020-2021
Major Projects:
Presentations
Global Health Education in Equity, Anti-Racism and Decolonization (GHEARD)
Symposium for Underserved, Rural and Global Health Equity, University of Utah (SURGE), UT
Virtual Lunch Session Toxocariasis and neglected parasitic diseases
Virtual Lunch Session Immigrant screening
Grand Rounds
Curricula Development
Global Health Education in Equity, Anti-Racism and Decolonization (GHEARD), module 3, module 4
Block Ed 6-18-2021 American Indian Health
Virtual Lunch Session 6-10-2021 Blue Marble Health: A Case From Rosebud Indian Health Service Unit
Rosebud and American Indian Health Guide for Residents
Clinical Work
Rosebud Pediatrics and Medicine
UMMC MedPeds Hospitalist
Maple Grove Pediatric Hospitalist
Rural Cloquet Hospitalist - Critical Care Hospital
Urgent Care Provider Twin Cities
Education
Rosebud Mentor
Undergraduate Medical Education St. Olaf Summer Program
Projects
Undergrad mentoring for immigrant health
"Return to Clinic" Somalian Community public health education
Community Health and Partnership Development in Rosebud
Reach out and Read in Rosebud
Splenomegaly in Refugees CDC
AIAN Health Partnerships Group
Publications
"A Case of Diffuse Thrombosis as a Complication of Influenza in a Severely-ill Pediatric Patient" - Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal
Scheuer J, Lehman A, Howard C, Greengard E, Boucher AA. Multifocal Bone Pain, Fevers, and an Enhancing Clavicular Lesion in an 11-year-old Liberian Boy. Pediatr Rev. 2021 Mar;42(3):147-150. doi: 10.1542/pir.2020-0034. PMID: 33648993.
Time abroad: Rosebud, South Dakota. Arusha, Tanzania
Current Position: Infectious Disease Fellow, UMN
Andrew Wu, MD, MPH, CTropMed®
2019-2020
Major Projects:
A Low-Resource Oxygen Blender Prototype for Use in Modified Bubble CPAP Circuits
Grant awarded from the Maslowski Charitable Trust 1/2019
Manuscript published in Journal of Medical Devices, accepted 11/2019
U.S.-based workshop 11/2019
Cambodia-based workshop 3/2020 projected
Safety and feasibility trial 5/2020 projected
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Training in Kyiv, Ukraine 12/2019
Wu, A. Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: The Highlights.GPEDS 2.0 (Global Pediatric Education Series). Editors Winter J, Danich E, Howard C. Available at globalpeds.umn.edu/gpeds. Original launch May 2014, Updated November 1, 2019.
Time abroad: Cambodia - 1/29/2020-3/30/2020
Current Position: PICU Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University
Publications with the team post graduation:
Ojo I, Wu A, Lauden S, Slusher T, Gladding S, Danich E, Howard C. Long-Term Impact of Global Pediatrics Curriculum, Experience, and Mentorship in Pediatric Residency. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Feb 7;106(4):1057–62. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-1014. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35130486; PMCID: PMC8991360.
Ifelayo Ojo, MBBS, MPH
2017-2018
Major Projects:
Ojo IP, Obeya EQ, Gbadero DA, Slusher TM. Evaluation of ThermoSpot for measurement of body temperatures in Nigerian infants receiving phototherapy and validation of caregiver ThermoSpot temperature reading. Abstract published in Minnesota Medicine, November-December 2017, Volume 100, Issue 6
Helping Babies Survive Global Leaders Scholar (Vermont Oxford Network - 2017) Taught Helping Babies Breathe including Neonatal Resuscitation in Hospitals at Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Nigeria and Mbingo Baptist Hospital, Mbingo, Cameroon
Moskalewicz R, Howard C, Slusher T, Gladding S, Danich E, Ojo I, Pitt M. Global Health Track Passport; An Innovative model for Self-Paced Multi-Choice Learning for Longitudinal Curricula. Association for Pediatric Program Directors Annual Meeting. March 22-24, 2018, Atlanta, GA
Miller K, Winter J, Connolly E, Ojo I, Fischer P, Van Genderen K, Slusher T. PEARLS Case-Pairing. S-PACK (SUGAR’s Pre-Departure Activities Curricular Kit). Editors Pitt M, St Clair N, Butteris S. Available at sugarprep.org/s-pack. Curriculum launched March 23, 2018
Slusher T, Vaucher, Y, Bjorklund A, Desai B, Lauden S, Ojo I. How to Bring Life-Saving Pediatric Procedures to Low-Resource Settings. Pediatric Academic Societies, May 5-8, 2018, Toronto, Canada
Time abroad: Nigeria (January 2017), Cameroon (January - April 2018)
Current Position:
Pediatrician, Hennepin Healthcare
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Assessment and Coaching Expert | Assistant Course Director, Foundations of Clinical Thinking, University of Minnesota Medical School
Publications with the team post graduation:
Ojo I, Wu A, Lauden S, Slusher T, Gladding S, Danich E, Howard C. Long-Term Impact of Global Pediatrics Curriculum, Experience, and Mentorship in Pediatric Residency. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Feb 7;106(4):1057–62. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-1014. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35130486; PMCID: PMC8991360.
Stephanie Lauden, MD, CTropMed®
2016-2017
Major Projects:
Lauden SM, Gladding S, Slusher T, Howard C, Pitt M. Learning Abroad: Qualitative Study of Residents’ Narratives About Clinical Experiences While on Global Health Electives. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2019 Aug; 11(4 Suppl):91-99. PMID: 3142826
Lauden SM, Chongwain S, Achiti A, Helm E, Slusher T, Krug A, Lund T. G6PD Deficiency and Infection in West African Blood Donors. BMC Research Notes. 2019 April 2;12(1):195. PMID: 3094018
St Clair N, Butteris S, Cobb C, Kaeppler C, Lauden S, Miller K, Warrick S, Winter J, Pitt M, on behalf of the Midwest Consortium of Global Child Health Educators S-PACK Workgroup. S-PACK: A Modular and Modifiable Comprehensive Preparation Curriculum for Global Health Experiences. Academic Medicine. 2019 May 14. PMID: 31094729
Time abroad: Cameron, Thailand
Current Position:
Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Depts of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, University of Colorado SOM
Program Director for Integrated Pediatric & Psychiatric Consultative Services, Pediatric Mental Health Institute
Publications with the team post graduation:
Ojo I, Wu A, Lauden S, Slusher T, Gladding S, Danich E, Howard C. Long-Term Impact of Global Pediatrics Curriculum, Experience, and Mentorship in Pediatric Residency. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Feb 7;106(4):1057–62. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-1014. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35130486; PMCID: PMC8991360.
Nate Meuser-Herr, MD, FAAP
2015-2016
Major Projects:
Lung ultrasound study in Jinja Uganda.
Thrasher early career award- https://www.thrasherresearch.org/grant/13043?lang=eng
Sonosite pocus profile- https://www.sonosite.com/blog/pocus-profile-dr-nathaniel-meuser-herr
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Division of General Pediatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Ann Campagna, MD
2010-2011