Children’s Minnesota in the News

Congratulations to the 79 Children’s Minnesota physicians recognized by Mpls.St.Paul Magazine as 2017 “Rising Stars.” This is the third edition of the Top Doctors Rising Stars list, which highlights outstanding physicians who have been fully licensed to practice for approximately 10 years or less. This year’s list includes 383 doctors in 43 specialties, who were selected after a peer-nomination process. Candidates were evaluated on myriad factors, including (but not limited to) professional achievement, review by an expert physician panel, extensive research and disciplinary history. Only doctors who received the highest total points from the surveys, research and blue-ribbon panel were selected to this list.

A partnership between Children’s Minnesota and the Life Is Good Kids Foundation has contributed to the training of nearly 80 Children’s staff members to be “playmakers.”

Patsy Stinchfield discussed the Children's Minnesota St. Paul PICU's record 2,570 days without a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI).

Dr. Gigi Chawla, chief of general pediatrics, and Kelly Wolfe, public policy director, discussed the importance of Medicaid.

Patsy Stinchfield, director of infection prevention and control, discussed the possibility of adding a third MMR booster shot.

Dr. Marcelo Vargas, genomic medicine pediatrician, discussed updates to the newborn screening, which will soon be testing for 60 different conditions with one blood test.

Dr. Marcelo Vargas and genetic counselor Catherine Long talked about the importance of genomic medicine.

Lincoln shared his story with Fox Sports North, discussing how his love of hockey helped him fight his cancer head on.

Dr. Robyn Reed, pathologist, describes what hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is and how the heart can change based on the condition.

Dr. Kris Catrine, a Pain and Palliative Care Consultant, and Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf, medical director of the Department of Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine discussed end-of-life care for children.