Faculty

Mark Bixby, MD, director
Michael Wootten, MD, associate director
Geoffrey Abbott, MSW, behaviorist
Jerica Berge, PhD, behaviorist
Renee Crichlow, MD
Lauren Giammar, MD
Barbara Leone, MD
Jody Lounsbery, PharmD
Jean Moon, PharmD
Grant Morrison, MD
David Olson, MD
Shailendra Prasad, MD, MPH
Kevin Raff, MD
Bean Robinson, PhD, behaviorist
Mark Yeazel, MD, MPH

Mark Bixby, MD, director
bixby001@umn.edu

Medical school: University of IL
Residency: University of MN North Memorial Family Medicine
Medical interests: Procedural skills, OB, and wilderness medicine
Background: Bixby spent 10 years in rural private practice in northwestern WI. During that time, he developed a wide range of procedural skills, including C-section, appendectomy, laparoscopy, and vasectomy, and was active in clinic management. He joined North Memorial faculty in 1991 and was named director in 1997.

Michael Wootten, MD, associate director
mwootten@umphysicians.umn.edu

Medical school: Vanderbilt University
Residency: University of MN North Memorial Family Medicine
Medical interests: OB, including procedural skills; geriatrics; and chronic disease management
Background: Prior to joining North Memorial faculty, Wootten practiced for three years in the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains and four years in suburban Minneapolis. He routinely teaches procedural skills, such as sigmoidoscopy, OB ultrasound, and other OB procedures.

Geoffrey Abbott, MSW, behaviorist
gabbott@umphysicians.umn.edu

Education: University of MN
Clinical interests: Pyschotherapy, hypnosis, family violence, and integrating mental health into primary care
Background: Abbott has been at North Memorial since 1977. Through precepting, video reviews, and team meeting and seminars, he helps residents understand patient-physician communication dynamics to increase their awareness of psychosocial factors. He also helps residents effectively utilize community resources.

Jerica Berge, PhD, behaviorist
mohl0009@umn.edu

Education: University of MN in marriage and family therapy
Research interests: Reducing health disparities through community engagement and participatory action research, resiliency of children with chronic illnesses, and reducing biopsychosocial problems through couples/family therapy
Background: Berge is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in collaborative care and family health issues. She has specialized clinical training in child play therapy, loss and grief issues, critical incident stress management, couples and sex therapy, parenting, depression, anxiety, group therapies, and working with families struggling with chronic illnesses.

Renee Crichlow, MD
rcrichlo@umn.edu

Medical school: University of CA, Davis
Residency: University of CA, Davis Medical Center, Family Medicine
Fellowship: University of CA in faculty development and research
Background: After residency, Crichlow was an attending physician, researcher, and instructor at University of CA, Davis, with a joint appointment in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Breast Health Clinic. Prior to joining North Memorial, Crichlow had been on faculty at the MT Family Medicine Residency with her continuity clinic in the town of Joliet, MT (population 300).

Lauren Giammar, MD
giamm001@umn.edu

Medical school: Northeastern OH University
Residency: University of MN North Memorial Family Medicine
Medical interests: Women's health, obstetrics, adolescent medicine, and child development

Barbara Leone, MD
bleone@umphysicians.umn.edu

Medical school: Harvard
Residency: University of MN St. Joseph's Hospital Family Medicine
Medical interests: Maternal and child health and health disparities
Background: For 13 years, Leone’s clinical practice was at the Model Cities Health Center, a non-profit community clinic in St. Paul, where she served as staff physician, preceptor, and medical director. She was also faculty at Regions Hospital Family Medicine Residency for five years before joining North Memorial.

Jody Lounsbery, PharmD
loun0015@umn.edu

Residencies: OH State University in community care; University of MD in ambulatory care
Medical interests: Women’s health, diabetes, and mental health
Faculty appointment: Assistant professor, University of MN College of Pharmacy

Jean Moon, PharmD
jmoon@umn.edu

Residency: University of MN in pharmaceutical care and leadership
Medical interests: Asthma, diabetes, smoking cessation, and
motivational interviewing
Faculty appointment: Assistant professor, University of MN College of Pharmacy; Clinical specialist, University of MN Family Medicine and Community Health
Background: During residency, Moon practiced at the Community-University Health Care Center and Broadway Family Medicine.

Grant Morrison, MD
morri209@umn.edu

Medical school: University of WA
Residency: Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) Family Medicine
Fellowship: HCMC Primary Care Sports Medicine
Medical Interests: Sports medicine, joint injections, and preventive medicine

David Olson, MD
dolson@umphysicians.umn.edu

Medical school: University of MN
Residency: United Family Medicine
Fellowship: Notre Dame University in primary care sports medicine
Background: Olson was faculty at St. Michael's Family Medicine Residency for one year, prior to joining North Memorial. Currently, he is a team physician for area high schools and colleges and the MN Vikings.

Shailendra Prasad, MD, MPH
pras0054@umn.edu

Education: MD from Mysore Medical College, India; MPH from the University of MN
Residency: Henry Ford Hospital Family Medicine
Fellowship: Henry Ford Hospital in academic medicine
Medical interests: Health care delivery systems and public health/primary care interfaces
Background: Prasad has practiced in rural MS and tribal areas in India.

Kevin Raff, MD
kraff@umphysicians.umn.edu

Medical school: Ross University School of Medicine
Residency: St. Clare's Regional Medical Center Family Medicine, Schenectady, NY
Medical interests: Obstetrics, pediatrics and adolescent health, and procedural medicine
Background: Raff worked locum tenens in VA and HI before joining a rural Mayo Health System site in Springfield, MN, where he practiced full scope family medicine. In 2007, he joined North Memorial faculty.

Bean Robinson, PhD, behaviorist
brobinsn@umphysicians.umn.edu

Education: University of MN in family social science
Fellowship: University of MI, Ann Arbor, in Asian American mental health and research methods
Background: Robinson is associate director of the University of MN Program in Human Sexuality and has authored numerous scientific articles, reports, manuals, and monographs.

Mark Yeazel, MD, MPH
yeazel@umn.edu

Medical school: University of NM
Residency: University of MN North Memorial Family Medicine
Fellowship: University of MN in faculty development
Medical interests: Preventive medicine and cancer screening