After 25 years of dedicated service, Jim Leste, our Vice President of Operations, is leaving Children’s Minnesota effective July 19th to pursue an exciting new opportunity as Chief Administrative Officer at The University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Messinger was recognized for his devotion to the Registry’s mission of improving the outcomes for children and adults with PPB and other DICER1-related cancers.
Read about Peter's brain tumor neurosurgery in first-of-its-kind iMRI suite at Children’s Minnesota.
Congratulations to Dr. Kade Goepferd, chief education officer and medical director of the Children’s Minnesota Gender Health program, on being honored as a 2024 Top LGBTQ+ Doctor by Castle Connolly.
Dr. Stuart Winter, chief research officer, is one of 52 authors on a paper that will soon be published in “Nature,” the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. The study is titled “The Genomic Basis of T-Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL).” Congratulations Dr. Winter and team on these remarkable advances!
Children’s Minnesota is pleased to announce Minnesota Senators Alice Mann and Kelly Morrison are the 2024 recipients of the Children’s Health Hero Award. Both recipients are physicians who bring their health care expertise to their role at the state Capitol. The annual award recognizes elected officials for their commitment in championing issues vital to kids’ health at the Minnesota Capitol.
The partial hospitalization program (PHP) at Children’s Minnesota Mental Health Specialty Clinic in Roseville, which provides structured, outpatient therapy for children and teens struggling with emotional and behavioral concerns, now treats kids as young as 6 years old.
The neurosurgery program at Children’s Minnesota has the largest team of pediatric neurosurgeons in the region, including Dr. Amy Bruzek, who joined the program last summer. Dr. Bruzek has special expertise in peripheral nerve surgery to treat brachial plexus injury, as well as single-level and multi-level laminectomies selective dorsal rhizotomies for spasticity.
Hillery is one of 40 hospital and health systems teams and individuals from across Minnesota recognized by MHA for their efforts to bolster the health care workforce and improve quality and safety.
Congratulations to Sam Githinji, chief information security officer (CISO) at Children’s Minnesota, for being honored as a Black healthcare leader to know by Becker’s Hospital Review.