Training
Undergraduate at Macalester College (anthropology and pre-med, 2014). Physician-assistant program at Augsburg University (MS-PAS, 2017). Six years at Lake Superior Community Health Center in pediatrics and adolescent care before joining Chronograph in 2024. NCCPA-certified physician assistant. Member of the American Academy of Physician Associates and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
What I do
I run the pediatric and young-adult lane (Lane 05). Most weeks, that is well-child visits from age 5 through college, sports physicals in the spring, ADHD continuation prescriptions, vaccine catch-up, and the transition-of-care visits at 18 and 22 that the practice insists on. I work closely with school athletic trainers in the Duluth Public Schools system and with the college health offices at St. Scholastica and UMD when the members of our panel are also their patients.
I drew the wall growth chart in exam room 03 myself, in pencil, in 2024. It uses the WHO percentiles for kids under 2 and the CDC growth references for older children. It is, on purpose, more precise than the printed clinic chart it replaced; the new one's gridlines are spaced so that a one-centimeter change is visible without squinting. The wall chart was not, technically, in our line item budget. Lena let it pass.
What I believe
Three things, mostly. First, the eighteen-year-old's first visit on their own — without a parent in the room — is the most consequential well-child visit in any pediatric panel, and it is unbillable in any visit-template I have ever seen, which means it has to be defended on the schedule by a clinician who values it. I value it. I defend it. Second, the seven-minute pediatric visit is even more broken than the seven-minute adult visit, because adolescent disclosure is non-linear and you cannot rush the second half of a conversation that takes its first half to begin. Third, kids deserve the same access to their clinician's mobile number that adults do. They have it.
I am also responsible for the waiting-room playlist, which is a deliberate counterweight to the soft-rock medical-clinic genre. Currently in rotation: Big Thief, Mitski, Sufjan Stevens, Phoebe Bridgers, Hozier, Adrianne Lenker, the National. Skipped tracks accepted by request from members.
Availability
Member-facing hours: Monday/Wednesday 09:00–18:00, Tuesday/Thursday 07:30–13:00 (sports physicals during the spring), alternating Saturdays. School-IEP letters and forms are turned around within five business days; sports physicals during March–May are bookable in 30-minute slots; well-child visits are 45 minutes by default.
Cross-references: most of my visits are in Lane 05; ADHD work is shared with Lane 03; sports-physical season runs through Lane 07.