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. During his first 10 years of practice, he performed inpatient and outpatient work at the Park Nicollet Medical Center and was Vice Chairman of the Department when he left. Along the way, he also worked as a consultant to the Eating Disorder unit at Methodist Hospital, helped start and was Medical Director for Fairview Ridges Chemical Dependency Programs, helped start and ran an adolescent crisis stabilization unit at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital and was Medical Director for Family Consultation Centers (later renamed Fairview Counseling Clinics.)

He was then recruited to Allina in order to help them create both an inpatient and an outpatient systemof care, worked there for approximately seven years and was Executive Medical Director responsible for the delivery of inpatient and outpatient care. 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. He lives in Minnetonka with his wife, four children, one dog and enjoys playing soccer and tennis.

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.

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