Legacy Through Learners

CUHCC is one of the largest urban primary care training sites in Minnesota, annually providing inter-professional, experiential education to more than 180 residents and students from the University of Minnesota’s Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Social Work, Pharmacy, Public Health, Nursing, and more. The Legacy Through Learners initiative seeks to document CUHCC’s educational legacy through the stories and successes of its learner-alumni.

Sarah Amlin, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident 2014-2015
Today: Facilitating Access to Medicine for Cancer Patients
"One of the biggest things CUHCC taught me–and this has served me in my career–is trying to always find a way to focus on the patients and to build that kind of resiliency….CUHCC really focuses on supporting its learners and making sure that they have the skills to support themselves."
Sarah Amlin, PharmD

Morgan Hoeft, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident 2017 -2018
Today: Advancing Pharmacy Equity and Education
“I really really enjoyed my time at CUHCC. It was an awesome blessing. I feel like that year, single handedly, probably helped me grow more as a human being than any other time period in my life. I'd always been somebody who was very much Type A, super motivated, always wanted to get a 100% on things. And I really appreciated that my preceptors helped me take a step back and try to think about the patient more as a person. And so it really challenged me to think about providing care in new ways that really met patients where they’re at.”
Morgan Hoeft, PharmD

Benjamin Katz, MD, CTropMed
CUHCC Resident Physician 2013-2017
Today: Serving Tribal Health Care in Remote Terrain
"I had wonderful colleagues and wonderful patients. A lot of people who worked in the clinic were patients, had grown up as patients in the clinic and so I really saw how invested CUHCC was in the community and the way it’s working to lift up and practice liberation medicine."
Benjamin Katz, MD, CTropMed

Sonal Parmar, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident 2021-2022
Today: Individualizing Patient Care Beyond Drug Therapy Management
“I come from Tanzania, a 3rd world country, [where] we don't have a lot of resources and healthcare is limited. The United States is a developed 1st world country, but CUHCC made me realize there are such gaps in healthcare here. [It became a question for me:] How can I bridge those gaps? At CUHCC you can. We were one big group, all working towards the same goal in different lanes. And if you ever needed help, you just switched the lane and asked for help, you know, and people will always be willing to help you.”
Sonal Parmar, PharmD

Yussuf S. Shafie LADC, MSW, LICSW
CUHCC Social Work Intern 2012-2013
Today: Directing a SUD Treatment Home for East Africans
"CUHCC is where I saw a lot of people from my own community struggling with addiction, and it’s where I got the idea of creating a treatment program to help East Africans. CUHCC helped me see the need and gave me the confidence to meet it."
Yussuf S. Shafie LADC, MSW, LICSW

Tyler Winkelman, MD, MSc
CUHCC Med Student 2009-2011, Resident Physician 2011-2015
Today: Advancing Health Care Rights for the Unhoused and Incarcerated
"I really appreciated the team-based approach that CUHCC facilitates, that it was pediatricians, internists, M-Peds and family medicine physicians, nurse practitioners and MAs, a team of people trying to give the greatest care to patients as possible."
Tyler Winkelman, MD, MSc

Yesenia Lopez-Mendoza, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident 2021-2022
Today: Advancing Mental Health Equity Via Pharmacy Work
“At CUHCC I was surrounded by such a supportive team. One thing I was really interested in was how, as a pharmacist, I could support people with mental health conditions. When I shared that with my preceptors, they found opportunities and helped me meet with the behavioral health specialist at the clinic and get started on that path.”
Yesenia Lopez-Mendoza, PharmD

Joy Xie, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident 2022-2023
Today: Optimizing Medication Plans, Patient by Patient
“CUHCC changed my career path for the better. After my residency, I stepped away from this type of clinic ambulatory care setting as a pharmacist, and ultimately decided that I wanted to go back into it, because when I was at CUHCC I remember waking up every morning with this sense of purpose, of enjoying what I do and knowing what it is I want to do every day. And so I really missed out on that after Residency, which is why I'm back in that kind of setting now.”
Joy Xie, PharmD

Lucas Cannon, PharmD
Pharmacy Resident 2022–2023
Today: Working with Patients to Manage Chronic Conditions & Meet Health Goals
“CUHCC is an awesome place to be a learner, and I felt supported the entire time I was there, start to finish, by so many different people–the pharmacy director, the preceptor team, my pharmacy co-resident, the other providers in the clinic, the other personnel in the clinic, my project team…I felt like I could go to anyone with any questions or concerns and they would be there to support me.”
Lucas Cannon, PharmD