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Jocelin Huang, MD, has joined Minnesota Oncology and began practicing at its clinics in Edina and Waconia in August. Huang received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and completed her fellowship in medical oncology and hematology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Huang’s areas of special interest include the treatment of colorectal, pancreatic, and hepatoJocelin Huang, MD biliary cancers; breast cancer; multiple myeloma; and lymphoma. Y. Ralph Chu, MD, has been honored with the Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Opthalmology. The award recognizes individuals for their contributions to the academy through instruction, participation, and other areas of service. Chu currently represents the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society on the AAO Council. He founded BloomingtonY. Ralph Chu, MD based Chu Vision Institute in 1999. Essentia Health has added several physicians to its clinics in Minnesota. Adam Swank, MD, has joined the Family Medicine Department at Essentia Health–West Duluth Clinic. Swank attended the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and completed his residency through the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program. Gastroenterologist Erin Thackeray, MD, has joined the Essentia Health–Duluth Clinic. Thackeray completed medical school at the University of Minnesota. She did her residency in internal medicine and completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. Chad Filson, MD, has joined Essentia Health– Virginia (Minn.) Clinic. Filson received his medical degree from Medical University of the Americas in Devens, Mass., and completed a family medicine residency at MidMichigan Medical Center in Midland, Mich. Minto Porter, MD, an allergy and asthma specialist, has joined Essentia Health St. Joseph’s–Brainerd Clinic and began seeing patients in August. She graduated from the University of North Dakota Medical School; completed her residency at Michigan State University–Kalamazoo; and completed an allergy, asthma, and immunology fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Lisa Young, MD, has been selected for this year’s Essentia Health Obstetrics Fellowship Program. The fellowship allows family medicine physicians who plan to practice in rural areas to train in obstetrics. Young attended Midwestern University in Glendale, Ariz., and completed a family medicine residency at Northern Colorado Family Medicine in Greeley, Colo. St. Croix Orthopaedics, PA, has added two physicians: Nicholas Holmes, MD, and Eric Kirksson, MD. Holmes, a primary-care sports medicine physician, will provide care for patients at the practice’s Nicholas Holmes, MD new urgent care clinic in Lake Elmo. He received his medical degree from St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies; and completed an internship at St. Joseph’s Mercy-Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, Mich., and a residency at Seneca Lakes Family Medicine Program–Oconee Medical Center in Seneca, S.C. Holmes is board-eligible with the American Eric Kirksson, MD Board of Family Practice with a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine. Kirksson, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, will treat patients at the Lake Elmo, Fairview Lakes, and Stillwater clinics. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2006 and completed residency training at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, followed by a medical spine fellowship at Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wis. He is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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OCTOBER 2012
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