Board Members

Sheldon Berkowitz, MD, FAAP
President
Clinical Medical Director & Physician Advisor
Children’s of Minnesota

Eileen Crespo, MD, FAAP
President-Elect 
Chapter Oral Health Advocate and Pediatrician
HCMC

Janna Gewirtz O’Brien, MD, FAAP
Treasurer
Pediatrician
Adolescent Medicine Fellow in the University of Minnesota Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program

Lori DeFrance, MD, FAAP
Immediate Past President
Pediatrician
Essentia Health – Duluth Clinic

Ria Bardhan, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician
Allina Health

Kelly Bergmann, DO, MS, FAAP
Pediatric Emergency Physician
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

Marcie Billings, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician
Mayo Clinic Children’s Center

Deborah Buchman, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician
Southdale Pediatrics

Pamela Gigi Chawla, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician, Pediatric Hospitalist, Senior Medical Director
of Primary Care

Nathan Chomilo, MD, FAAP
General Pediatrician and Internal Medicine Hospitalist; Park Nicollet
Medical Director, Medicaid & MinnesotaCare, Minnesota Department of Human Service

Lisa Cinar, MD, FAAP
General Pediatrician
North Memorial Clinic – Maple Grove

Valeria Cristiani, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician
Mayo Clinic

Madeleine Gagnon, MD, FAAP
Associate Medical Director
Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare

Seth Gregory, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician
Mayo Clinic

Angela Goepferd, MD, FAAP
Associate Director of Medical Education
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota — Minneapolis

Gretchen Karstens, MD, FAAP
General Pediatrician
St. Luke’s

Kathy Kulus, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
CentraCare Health

Hannah Lichtsinn, MD, FAAP
General Pediatrician, Internal Medicine
HealthPartners

Dawn Martin, MD
Pediatrician
Hennepin Healthcare

Nancy Ott, MD, FAAP
Pediatric Allergist
Allergy and Asthma Specialists

Michael Pitt, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor, Medical Director of Informatics Education
University of Minnesota

Andrea Singh, MD, FAAP
Chairperson of Pediatrics, Park Nicollet Health Services
Medical Director of Newborn Nursery, Methodist Hospital
Pediatrician, Park Nicollet Health Services

Katie Smentek, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician
Mankato Clinic

Rachel Tellez, MD, MS, FAAP
General Pediatrician
HCMC

Robert Mills, III, MD
Resident
U of M

Bonnie Bentson, MD
Resident
U of M

Brandon Jones, MD
Resident
Mayo Clinic

Jessica Ulrich, MD
Resident
Mayo Clinic

Melissa DeBilzan
Executive Director, MNAAP

Katherine Cairns, MPH, MBA
Executive Director, MAPF

Bethany Venable 
Communications Manager

Eric Dick
Lobbyist