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Roger Waage, MD, Program Director Dr. Waage grew up in Langdon, North Dakota. He attended Medical School at the University of Minnesota, Duluth /Minneapolis and is a 1979 graduate of the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program. After graduation he joined P.S. Rudie & Associates of Duluth and practiced full-spectrum Family Medicine including Obstetrics. While in practice he remained an active participant and supporter of resident education. His interest in teaching continued to grow and he accepted a faculty position in 1994. Dr. Waage's professional interests include laboratory medicine, health information technology, and women's health issues with a specific interest in colposcopy. In 1998 he received the Colposcopy Recognition Award from the American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP). Dr. Waage "survives" in an all female household with his wife, Mary Beth, and their three daughters. He and his family are veteran globe trotters and enjoy adding to their many adventures as busy schedules permit.
David Hutchinson, MD, Assistant Director Dr. Hutchinson grew up in southern Michigan and attended Oberlin College in Ohio as an undergraduate. After a two year bicycle trip around the United States and Europe, he attended medical school in Cincinnati. Happy to return to the Great Lakes, he felt fortunate to complete his Family Medicine training in Duluth. Dr. Hutchinson is a 1991 graduate of the program. After a two-month circumnavigation of Lake Superior by kayak, he entered a busy, comprehensive care rural practice in Moose Lake, Minnesota. He split time between private practice and residency teaching beginning in 1996 and joined the residency fulltime in 2001. Dr. Hutchinson is the Immediate Past President of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP). His special professional interests remain broad, including service to rural communities, emergency medicine, procedural skills, musculoskeletal medicine, wilderness medicine, complex health issues, personal counseling/family dynamics, and kids. He feels passionate about training for the breadth and depth of skills and attitudes that will allow family practitioners to capably be the long-term coordinating centerpiece of a functional, kind, accurate, and cost-friendly health care system in the United States. Personal interests include "paddling", adventure travel, camp cooking, organic gardening and preserving, peace and justice issues, environmentalism, and spending time with his wife, Gloria, and their four children.
Megan Mahoney, MD, MS Ed, Assistant Director Dr. Mahoney grew up in Deerwood, Minnesota, graduated from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth and Minneapolis. She was a Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP) student in Cambridge in 1992. She completed her Family Medicine training in 1998 at the University of Minnesota’s St. John’s/Health East Residency Program. She then joined the faculty at the Iowa Lutheran Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in Des Moines, with a faculty appointment at the University of Iowa’s Carver School of Medicine. While teaching in Des Moines, she also served as medical director of La Clinica de la Esperanza, a community-health clinic for Latina women and children, and educated and supervised family medicine residents providing obstetrical and pediatric care to the underserved immigrant population. In 2004 she completed a Master’s Degree in Medical Education at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. She moved to Duluth to join the faculty at the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program in 2006. Dr. Mahoney’s professional interests include competency-based resident education, obstetrics in family medicine, and women’s health. She plays jazz and classical piano, shoots a mean game of pool, and loves to travel, hike, sail, and be anywhere near water. She is an amateur logophile and loves word games, grammar, and trivia. She lives in Duluth with her family and the world’s greatest dog, Martha.
Kim Kruger, MD, Assistant Director Dr. Kim Kruger was born and raised in New Ulm, Minnesota. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus in St. Peter, Minnesota, attended medical school at the University of Minnesota, Duluth/Minneapolis, did RPAP at the Brainerd Medical Center and graduated in 1997. After medical school she joined the staff at Health East at St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood, Minnesota. In 2000, Dr. Kruger left the Twin Cities for the Buffalo Clinic to practice full-spectrum family medicine including Obstetrics. In 2002 she joined the Allina Medical Clinic in Cokato where she practiced until becoming part of the faculty at the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program in 2004. Dr. Kruger is married to Lee Kruger, who teaches social studies at Duluth East High School, and they have two children. Her interests include: Women's Health, Quality Improvement, and Geriatrics.
Heather Pett Taylor, MD, Assistant Director Dr. Heather Pett Taylor was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For college she ventured back to the West Coast where she graduated with a degree in sociology and minors in women's studies, biology and French from Pacific Lutheran University in Washington state. Returning home, she attended the University of Minnesota Medical School and participated in the Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP) in Montevideo, Minnesota. This solidified her passion for rural Family Medicine and she eagerly attended residency in Duluth, Minnesota, where she also found a love of teaching. After residency, she did a fellowship in faculty development while working at a Family Medicine clinic in Spooner, Wisconsin. Dr. Pett Taylor also worked in Urgent Care and Emergency Rooms in surrounding rural communities. In 2008 she signed on as a full-time faculty member with the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program where she enjoys full-spectrum teaching, a practice of her own, and continues with interests in women's health, behavioral medicine, special needs populations, and chronic disease management. She is married to a hydrogeologist who works for a local environmental firm and they have two daughters.
Julie Lonetto Residency Coordinator	Megan Undeberg, PharmD Pharmacy Services
Christine Day, RN, MS, CDE Diabetes Services	Bonnie Keeling, MSW Social Services
Kathy Thielen, RN Nurse Manager	Cindy Hafferty Business Manager
Patti Urbanski, RD Nutrition Services	Paul Remark, EdD Behavioral Medicine Services

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