Faculty & Staff

Bio

Emily Onello, MD, joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus in 2012. She directs and teaches several medical student courses, serves as a faculty advisor to medical students, and helps to develop and evaluate curriculum. She focuses on the rural preceptorship experience for students. Current research interests include rural physician workforce challenges, vaccination attitudes and environmental health. She has practiced as a family physician at Bay Area Health Center in Silver Bay, MN as well as at Lake Superior Community Health Center in Duluth, MN. Dr. Onello participated in immunology research involving cellular inflammatory mechanisms at the University of California, San Diego.

Bio

Dr. Owen is a member of the Auk Kwaan Tribe of the Tlingit people. She is the Associate Dean of Native American Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. On graduation from the University of Minnesota Medical School and Family Practice Residency Program, she returned home to work for her tribal community in Juneau, Alaska. In 2014, after eleven years of full-scope family medicine, she returned to the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth as the Director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health (CAIMH). Her work includes: developing regional and national programs to increase the numbers of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) students entering medical careers, outreaching to local and national Native leaders to ensure that the University of Minnesota Medical School remains in tune with AIAN healthcare and education needs, teaching medical students and health care providers important components of providing healthcare to AIAN communities and developing research efforts to address AIAN health disparities. She continues to provide clinical care at the Center of American Indian Resources in Duluth and is the immediate Past-President of the Association of American Indian Physicians.

Academic Administrative Appointments

Associate Dean of Native American Health                                                                                           October 2022 - Present
Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Endowed Professorship of American Indian Health                                                                             July 2015 - Present
University of Minnesota
School of Medicine Duluth Campus
Duluth, Minnesota

Bio

Dr. Pearson is a family medicine physician who has been a part of the Duluth campus faculty for many years. Her faculty role has included course directorship, teaching throughout many additional courses within the curriculum, being a faculty advisor, serving on several committees including admissions and curriculum committees, being involved with clinical research, serving as the faculty advisor to the Honor Council, and precepting the HOPE Clinic.

Research Summary

Research Interests:

1. Effects of curricular innovation on medical education
2. Rural obstetrical care
3. Human health and the environment

Teaching Summary

1. Life Stages Thread: Co-lead for SERVE Curriculum
2. Hormone and Reproductive Medicine: Clinical Course Director
3. The Healer’s Art: Course Director
4. The Healer's Art Course website. http://www.d.umn.edu/medweb/Healers_Art/course.htm
5. Obstetrics Longitudinal Course: Course Director
6. Faculty Instructor and small and/or large group facilitator for the following courses: Cardiac, Respiratory, Renal, Acid Base 1 & 2; Gastrointestinal Medicine; Immunology, Hematology, Oncology; Neurological Medicine; Skin/Musculoskeletal Medicine; Community Clinical Medicine; Introduction to Rural Family Medicine and Native American Health; Rural Medical Scholars Program; Observed Simulated Clinical Examinations

Service Summary

Health Sciences

Clinical Summary

1. Precepting Physician: HOPE Clinic, Duluth MN
2. Family Medicine and Urgent Care: casual status with Essentia Health, Duluth MN
3. Family Medicine with Obstetrics: St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic, Hermantown Clinic
4. Medical Director/Collaborating Physician, College of Scholastica Student Health Services, Duluth MN
5. Family Medicine with Obstetrics: UW Physicians Plus Medical Group, McFarland, WI
6. Chief Resident: UW/St. Mary’s Hospital, Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health, Madison, WI

Bio

Michele Statz is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She is affiliated faculty with the University of Minnesota Law School and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center and is also an Affiliated Scholar with the American Bar Foundation. Michele is trained as an anthropologist of law and is a leading researcher in rural and Indigenous access to justice. Her work has appeared in Law & Society Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, and the American Journal of Public Health, among others. It is generously funded by the National Science Foundation. Michele is the co-founder of the Law and Rurality Collaborative Research Network, and she is a member of the Federal-level Rural Justice Task Force and the National Advisory Council for Frontline Justice.

Michele’s other ongoing work includes interdisciplinary and mixed-media projects on global youth and mobility (www.youthcirculations.com); reproductive justice; working-class identity; rural housing precarity; and immigration lawyering. Her first book, Lawyering an Uncertain Cause: Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the U.S. (Vanderbilt U Press), was published in 2018. Statz holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and a graduate certificate in Comparative Law and Society Studies from the University of Washington.

Bio

Dr. Stover joined the faulty in 2018, after 28 years as a family physician in Grand Marais, Minnesota. Her full spectrum rural practice included maternity care, emergency services, end of life care and an appointment as the Cook County Coroner. Her current role at the Medical School includes teaching clinical skills, working as a faculty member of the Rural Physicians Associate Program and serving as a preceptor with the Duluth Family Practice Residency Program.

Bio

Dr. Warry is the director of Rural Health Initiatives on the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team (MK-MDT) – Health Equity. He is also a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health.  Dr. Warry is an applied anthropologist, specializing in Indigenous and rural health research with a primary focus on the health of older adults, dementia, chronic disease and caregiving. He is co-lead with Dr. Kristen Jacklin on a research program to develop a Center for Community Engaged Rural Dementia and Alzheimer’s Research (CERDAR). CERDAR uses community-based approaches to engage rural communities in projects concerning the prevention, diagnosis and care for people with dementia in rural communities. He is also a co-investigator in the MK-MDT I-CARE research program which explores Indigenous peoples’ lived-experience with dementia.