Clinical

Academic General Pediatrics has become its own division in the Department of Pediatrics in 2007. However, for more than 20 years, Academic General Pediatrics flourished through the core network of participating community hospitals and clinics:

• University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview
• Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
• Hennepin County Medical Center
• HealthPartners Clinics
• Regions Hospital

Clinical Services

The University-based faculty have responsibility for the:

• Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
  Begun in 1976, the Behavioral Medicine program was one of the first such clinical and training programs in the US. It serves as a consultation and referral source for families and physicians locally and throughout the Upper Midwest. It specializes in the evaluation and management of a wide variety of behavioral concerns, including offering training in computerized biofeedback, self-hypnosis, relaxation and mental imagery.

• Palliative Care
  University of Minnesota Children¿s Hospital, Fairview offers pediatric palliative care consultation. These consults involve an interdisciplinary approach for addressing the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of children who were born with serious medical conditions or who develop serious illnesses during childhood or adolescence, and who are faced with complex and life-limiting conditions.

• The Center for Safe & Healthy Children
  The Center for Safe & Healthy Children at University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview is dedicated to caring for possible victims of child maltreatment and preventing abuse and neglect in children and adolescents.
  

• University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview (University and Riverside campuses) - Inpatient General Pediatrics services & Newborn Nursery

• U Special Kids
  The U Special Kids program helps the families of children with complex medical issues coordinate care with University specialists, community health care providers, families and others who care for the child, and dealing with common day-to-day problems such as prescription refills, minor illnesses, mental health issues, or questions from home care nurses, school nurses, or insurance companies.
  

• KDWB University Pediatrics Family Center
  Activities at the center are focused on maximizing the developmental potential of all children by creating human environments that reduce risks and provide resources that contribute to child competence and well-being.
  

• Community University Health Care Clinic (CUHCC) Academic General Pediatrics
  Community University Health Care Clinic offers a teen clinic every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. The clinic serves diverse populations drawn primarily from the Southeast Asian, East African and Native American communities.

• St. Joseph's Home for Children
  St. Joseph's Home for Children cares for children in need by addressing immediate needs for shelter and stability and offering long-term solutions to emotional and behavioral issues.
  
  

• Training

  • Primary Care Fellowship in Academic General Pediatrics
  • The academic faculty are responsible for medical student and pediatric resident training and faculty development. They provide oversight of resident rotations, including developmental pediatrics, behavioral and developmental pediatrics, an urban rotation, emergency medicine, and inpatient and ambulatory rotations in affiliated hospitals and clinics.

  Research

  Faculty are involved in research in the following areas:

  • Youth Violence Prevention
    A collaboration with UCare Minnesota (a health maintenance organization that serves low-income families) to implement a telephone-based parenting education program and measure the impact of the program on interpersonal violence involvement among youth.
  • Clinical Approaches to Prevent Health-Risk Behaviors Among Youth
    A collaboraion with the American Academy of Pediatrics' Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS), a national network of pediatric practices involved in research, to conduct a randomized controlled trial of primary care based intervention to reduce mental health problems, violence and substance abuse among youth.
  • Speical Populations: Special Health Care Needs, Chronically Ill - Transition Services, Case Management
  • Breastfeeding and Prevention of obesity
    

  Community Outreach

  • Parents as Teachers
  • U Special Kids program is supported with legislative funding

  Publications

  Primary care pediatrics in an era of managed care: Where are we headed? A retreat of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine. White Paper #2 . (1997). Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

  Medical Education in an era of managed care in Minnesota. A Colloquium of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota. White Paper #1 . (1995). Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

  For more information, see contact information below.

  Staff

  Cindy Howard, MD, Director of General Pediatrics
  Iris Borowsky, MD, PhD
  Christopher Boys, Ph.D.
  Pi-Nian Chang, Ph.D., L.P.
  Mary Chesney, MS, RN, CPNP
  Allison Golnik, M.D., M.P.H.
  Dave Hanson, M.D.
  Julie Hauer, M.D.
  Abraham Jacob, MD
  Rich Kaplan, M.D.
  Harsohena Kaur, MD, MPH
  Michael Kim, MD
  Anne Kelly, MD, MPH
  Daniel Kohen, MD
  Katherine E. Murray, M.D., M.P.H.
  Leon Satran, MD
  Peter Scal, MD, MPH
  Emily Borman-Shoap, M.D.
  Mary Jo Spencer, RN, CPNP, MPH
  

  Contact Us

  General Academic Pediatrics
  Department of Pediatrics
  University of Minnesota
  717 Delware Street SE, #353
  Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
  Phone: (612) 626-2820
  TTY: (612) 624-3939
  Fax: (612) 626-2134
  E-mail: drcindy@umn.edu

  Links

  University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview
  Children's Hospitals and Clinics - Minneapolis, St. Paul
  Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare