Hennepin-Regions Psychiatry Training Program

Department Chairs and Staff

Michael Popkin, MD is the Chief of the Psychiatry Department at Hennepin County Medical Center. Dr. Popkin is a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Minnesota and has an extensive list of publications and research experiences. He has a career-long clinical interest in consultation liaison psychiatry. Dr. Popkin has been the recipient of the Society For Liaison Psychiatry Lifetime Achievement Award and the Academy's of Psychosomatic Medicine Thomas B. Hackett Award.

Michael Trangle, MD is the Associate Medical Director for the HealthPartners Medical Group and the Division Head of the Behavioral health Department at Regions Hospital. Dr. Trangle is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis and attended his residency at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he was Chief Resident.  He has held administrative positions in several systems, and has done extensive inpt and outpt work, as well as developing new programs and services. In addition to his current duties at Regions Hospital and HealthPartners, Dr. Trangle is Chair of the ICSI Guideline Group and faculty/content expert on the ICSI DIAMOND Project, and is involved in a number of East Metro public/private partnerships to improve the flow of psychiatric patients.

Staff

• Teaching is done by our 30-40 staff psychiatrists with a variety of interest areas such as:  geriatrics, sleep disorders, forensics, women's health, OCD, trichotillomania, refugees and victims
  of torture, consultation-liaison, psychopharmacology, addictions, emergency psychiatry, and administration.
• Teaching is done as well as by affiliated psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.
• Many of our lecturers come from the community and donate their time and expertise to teaching our residents.

Click below for information on additional staff members.