A team approach to your care

At Children’s Minnesota, we believe your care is a partnership between you, your family and a wide variety of experts in cancer treatment, including physicians, nursing, psychology, social work and more. You’ll have support from dozens of specialists at Children’s Minnesota as well as experts in young adult and adult medicine from Allina Health’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

Our Adolescent and Young Adult cancer care team:

• Doctors and nurse practitioners:
  • Julie Chu, MD
  • Mary Langevin, APRN CNP
• Nursing:
  • Trinayani Freeberg, RN
  • Kate Joseph, RN
• Child life:
  • Kristi Adams
  • Jodi Betsinger
• Psychology: Nicole Englebert, LP, PhD
• Social work:
  • Theresa Huntley, LICSW
  • Alisa Linne, LICSW

Access to specialists outside of Children’s Minnesota

Through our partner, Allina Health at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, you’ll have access to professionals at:

• Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
• Allina Health Cancer Institute
• Minnesota Oncology

We also have partners in fertility preservation at The Center for Reproductive Medicine.