New Faculty - 2006

We would like to extend a warm welcome to the following new faculty members:

John Andrews, M.D.
Associate Head for Education and Pediatric Residency Program Director
Joins us from Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota.
Trained at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Bryce Binstadt, M.D., Ph.D.
Rheumatology Faculty
Joins us from Children's Hospital Boston.
Trained at the Mayo Medical School.

Michael Burke, M.D.
Hematology/Oncology and BMT Faculty
Joins us from Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University.
Trained at Ross University School of Medicine, Portsmouth, Dominica.

Ron Furnival, M.D.
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Division Director
Joins us from Banner Children's Hospital and Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona.
Trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Dan Gruenstein, M.D.
Cardiology Faculty
Joins us from Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trained at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Sameer Gupta, M.D.
Critical Care Faculty
Joins us from Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trained at the University of Maryland School of Medicine

Jin-Young Han, M.D., Ph.D.
Infectious Diseases and CIDMTR Faculty
Joins us from Children's Hospital Medical Center, Seattle, Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
Trained at  University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine

Dave Hanson, M.D.
General Pediatrics/Hospitalist
Joins us from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Susan Kearney, M.D.
Hematology/Oncology, BMT Faculty
Joins us from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard University.
Trained at the Mayo Medical School

Michael Kim, M.D.
General Pediatrics/Hospitalist
Joins us from University of Minnesota Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program.
Trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

John McDonald, M.D.
Clinical Neuroscience Faculty

Katherine (Betsy) Murray, M.D.
General Pediatrics & Adolescent Health Faculty
Joins us from University of Minnesota Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship.
Trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Brandon Nathan, M.D.
Endocrinology Faculty
Joins us from Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trained at Dartmouth Medical School.

Kiri Ness, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Epidemiology Faculty
Promoted from within to Assistant/Associate Professor.
Received Masters of Public Health and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Simona Ognjanovic, Ph.D.
Epidemiology Faculty
Joins us from the University of Hawaii at Manoa
Trained at the John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii

Mark Roback, M.D.
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Faculty
Joins us from Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado.
Trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School

Julia Steinke, M.D.
Nephrology Faculty
Joins us from the University of Minnesota Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship.
Trained at Rush Medical College.

Emily Yonke, M.D.
Associate Program Director Pediatric Residency Program and General Pediatrics/Hospitalist
Joins us from University of Minnesota Pediatric Residency Program.
Trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School.