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Surgical Critical Care Faculty
| Gregory J. Beilman, M.D. |
Jeffrey G. Chipman, M.D. |
Matthew Layman, M.D. |
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Jerome H. Abrams, M.D.
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David J. Dries, M.D.
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Sapoora Manshaii, M.D.
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Roderick A. Barke, M.D.
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Paul Druck, M.D.
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Michael D. McGonigal, M.D.
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Bruce A. Bennett, M.D.
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Erin E. Eyberg, M.D.
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Cassandra A. Palmer, M.D.
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Matthew C. Byrnes, M.D.
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James V. Harmon, Jr., M.D.
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Michael Sweeney, M.D.
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| Frank B. Cerra, M.D. |
Anne L. Lambert, M.D. |
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Gregory J. Beilman, M.D., based at the University of Minnesota, was the Director of the Surgical Critical Care training program for 10 years, Medical Director of Surgical Critical Care, Professor of Surgical Critical Care and has a joint appointment as Professor of Anesthesiology. He has published articles on acute lung injury, preoperative cardiac evaluation of high-risk patients, and tissue energetics in low oxygen delivery states. He earned his bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins in 1981 and his M.D. at the University of Kansas in 1986. Dr. Beilman is also a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army Reserves.
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Jerome H. Abrams, M.D., based at the VA, is an Associate Professor of Surgical Critical Care (formally General Surgery). He has published articles and book chapters on cardiac output measurement, scanning electron-stimulated desorption, monitoring of critically ill patients, and related areas. He earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry at Harvard in 1972 and his M.D. at Tufts in 1978.
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Roderick A. Barke, M.D., based at the VA, is the Director of Critical Care and Professor of Surgery. His bibliography includes papers on adult respiratory distress syndrome, bacterial clearance from the peritoneal cavity, and regulation of gene expression after trauma or sepsis. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Michigan State in 1969 and 1970, and his M.D. at Wayne State in 1977.
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Bruce A. Bennett, M.D., based at Regions Hospital, is an Assistant Professor. Bennett entered Coe College in 1979 and completed his course work there with a Bachelors degree in Physics and Chemistry in 1983. He attended medical school at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed postgraduate training as a general surgeon with added qualifications in surgical critical care spending time at Methodist Hospital in Indiana, Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Bennet joined HealthPartners in 2003 as Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit. At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Surgery.
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Matthew C. Byrnes, M.D., based at the University of Minnesota, is an Assistant Professor of Surgical Critical Care. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Kanasas, Lawrence, in 1997 and his M.D. at the University of Kansas, Wichita, in 2001. His post-graduate training included general surgery training at the University of Kansas, Wichita, and a surgical critical care fellowship at the Washington University/Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
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Frank B. Cerra, M.D., is the Senior Vice President for the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota and Professor of General Surgery. His bibliography includes over 200 journal articles, 50 book chapters, 6 monographs, and 4 books on various aspects of critical care and surgical nutrition. He earned his bachelor's degree in biology at the State University of New York, Binghamton, in 1965 and his M.D. at Northwestern in 1969.
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Jeffrey G. Chipman, M.D., based at the University of Minnesota, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and the Associate Program Director, General Surgery Training Program and the Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship. His research interests include the mediators of inflammation, sepsis, and the injury response; immunosuppression related to blood transfusion; and transfusion alternatives. Dr. Chipman earned his M.D. at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed a general surgery residency at the University of Arizona from 1995-2000. Then, from 2000-2001 he completed a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Minnesota.
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David J. Dries, M.D., based at Regions Hospital, is the John F. Perry, Jr. Professor of Surgery, Professor of Anesthesiology and Clinical Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine. A native of Milwaukee, Dries entered Purdue University in 1972 and completed his course work there with a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering in 1976. He attended medical school at the University of Chicago and completed postgraduate training as a general surgeon with added qualifications in surgical critical care spending time at Duke University, the University of California at Irvine and Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.
Dries joined HealthPartners in 1999 and is Assistant Medical Director for Surgery in HealthPartners Medical Group. He serves on multiple boards including Shock, Critical Care Medicine, The Journal of Trauma; Injury, Infection and Critical Care and the Year Book of Critical Care Medicine.
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Paul Druck, M.D., based at the VA, is an Assistant Professor in Surgery and Associate Director of the SICU. His special clinical interest is critical care. His special research interest is the molecular biology of colon cancer. He earned his M.D. at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, in 1982, then did his residency at the State University of New York at Downstate. In 1989-91, he was a surgical critical care fellow at the University of Minnesota.
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Erin E. Eyberg, based at the University of Minnesota, is an Instructor in the division of Surgical Critical Care. She earned her M.D. from the University in 2002, then completed a general surgical residency training program from Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota in 2008.
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James V. Harmon, Jr., M.D., based at the University of Minnesota, is an Instructor in the division of surgical critical care. Harmon attended the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota, prior to completing a pathology residency at Massachusets General Hospital in Boston where he worked as an Instructor of Pathology for Harvard University. In 1993, he came to the University of Minnesota where he has since completed a general surgery residency training program; postgraduate training in gastrointestinal endoscopy, surgical infectious disease, and research; and fellowships in both solid organ transplant and surgical critical care. In 2004, Harmon trained at the Naval School of Health Sciences in Los Angeles prior to being deployed to Iraq for six months. Additional development with the Marines for combat field surgical training in both California and South Korea round out his military expertise.
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Anne L. Lambert, M.D., based at Regions Hospital, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery. A native of rural North Dakota, Lambert entered North Dakota State University in 1991 and completed her course work there with a Bachelors degree in Zoology in 1995. She attended medical school at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine graduating in 1999. Postgraduate training as a general sureon with added qualifications in surgical critical care and trauma were obtained from June 1999 through June 2005 at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN.
Lambert joined Health Partners in August 2005 as a surgeon specializing in trauma, critical care, laparoscopy and general surgery.
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Sapoora Manshaii, M.D., based at the University of Minnesota, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery. Her research interests include women's health issues, septic shock, multiorgan dysfunction syndrome, trauma in pregnancy, and breast diseases. Dr. Manshaii earned her M.D. in Munich, Germany, and completed her general surgery residency training at St. Louis University Hospital in 2002. Then, from 2002-2003 she completed a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Maryland.
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Michael D. McGonigal, M.D., based at Regions Hospital, is the Director of Trauma Services. He devotes a large portion of his time to trauma and critical care, with a special interest in gun violence issues. He earned his B.A. in chemistry at Oberlin in 1979 and his M.D. at Ohio State in 1982.
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Cassandra A. Palmer, M.D., based at Regions Hospital, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. She earned her M.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1999 and completed her residency training program in 2005 at the Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis.
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