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Lynn Tanner, PT, PhD, iis the Scientific Director of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Children’s Minnesota. She has over 22 years of clinical, research, and operational experience in pediatric cancer rehabilitation.  In her current role, she conducts research investigating peripheral neuropathy and the impact of PT in pediatric oncology. She has published multiple research manuscripts in collaboration with other experts in the field and leads a cancer rehabilitation program development training for other hospitals interested in evidence-based care. She has presented for the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), American Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing Association Conferences, Children’s Hospitals Association, Children’s Oncology Group, and local Universities. Honors include the APTA Oncology Jeri F. Walton Award for Service, APTA Emerging Leader Award, Oncology Section Stephen Gudas Award for Outstanding Publication in Rehabilitation Oncology with Dr. Laura Gilchrist, and the Children’s Minnesota Board Quality award. She was co-creator and chair of the Pediatric Oncology Special Interest Group of the APTA and the Cancer Rehabilitation Networking Group Pediatric Task Force of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Currently she serves as the Education co-chair of the Rehabilitation & Physical Medicine SIG in the International Society of Paediatric Oncology..

Paula Anderson, OTR\L, PM&R Director

Allison Galkowski, DNP, APRN, CNP is a nurse practitioner in the Cancer and Blood Disorders Program at Children's of Minnesota.  She received her undergraduate nursing degree from Saint Louis University and received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at Creighton University.  Her interests include neuro-oncology, pediatric oncofertility, survivorship, and patient education.

Laura Gilchrist PT, PhD, is a Professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at St. Catherine University, in St. Paul, MN. Since 2007, she has also held the position of Clinical Research Scientist in the Oncology Program at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. She has a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota. Her current research focuses on assessing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathies and their impact on balance control and overall physical function. She has externally funded grants from the American Cancer Society and St. Baldrick’s Foundation for this work. In addition, she has published 2 clinical practice guidelines in oncology rehabilitation. She has served on the board of directors for the Oncology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association and currently heads the Development of Evidence-Based Practice documents for this group.

Bonnie Carlson-Green PhD, LP, is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist at Children's Minnesota. She earned her PhD from Georgia State University in Atlanta, completed her internship at Children's Memorial Medical Center (now Lurie Children's Hospital) in Chicago, followed by a 2-year fellowship in neuropsychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She remained there as a staff pediatric neuropsychologist until joining Children's in 1996 to develop the neuropsychology program for pediatric cancer patients. In addition to her work with children with various forms of cancer, she sees a variety of patients with medical, learning and developmental disorders from infancy to young adults and enjoys the opportunity to follow her patients over the course of childhood into adulthood. Dr. Carlson-Green’s research includes Cogmed working memory interventions with brain tumor survivors and other neurocognitive and developmental outcomes in brain tumor patients. Dr. Carlson-Green's interests include parent advocacy for students with special needs, transition planning, and neurodevelopmental outcomes after childhood cancer and cancer survivor issues. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, travel, Nordic skiing, and open water swimming.

Sharyl Samargia-Grivette, PhD CCC-SLP, is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. She earned her B.A.S. and M.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and her PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is interested in optimizing neuroplasticity for motor and communication recovery after stroke and brain injury through an integrative rehabilitation approach including neuromodulation.
 

Diane Lesmeister, OTR/L is an occupational therapist at Children’s Minnesota leading the occupational therapy team in the Cancer and Blood Disorders clinic. She began working at Children’s Minnesota in 2001 and has contributed to the multidisciplinary feeding clinic, OT practice board, and development of best clinical practice guidelines for children and adolescents with oncology diagnosis. She has received her certification in pediatric vestibular rehabilitation to improve assessment and intervention in children with concussion and oncology diagnoses. She also works on the clinical research team investigating chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in young children and a functional outcome database for children treated for blood cancers. She co-authored an invited manuscript on Cancer Rehabilitation in the Pediatric and Adolescent/Young Adult Population.

Lane Miller, MD, MSc, obtained a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, completed a residency in general pediatrics at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, OR, and completed a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology/BMT and obtained a masters degree in clinical research at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He is a specialist in childhood leukemia and lymphoma with particular interests in supportive care, treatment-related toxicity, and novel therapeutics for de novo and relapsed disease. He is additionally engaged in clinical research with active projects involving personalized approaches to chemotherapy, sedation for intrathecal chemotherapy administration, and pre-emptive pharmacogenomic applications. Outside of the hospital, he is an active musician, cyclist, backpacker, and gardener.

Monica Olsen, PT, DPT is a Physical Therapist at Children's Minnesota. She earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN, and has worked at Children's Minnesota in both inpatient and outpatient pediatric oncology since 2019. She works on the clinical research team investigating chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in young children. She also co-authored an invited manuscript on The Concerns With Falling in the pediatric oncology population for the Journal of Rehabilitation Oncology.

Leah Podergois, CCC-SLP, is an acute care inpatient Speech-Language Pathologist at Children’s Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in Speech Language Pathology at Marquette University and her M.A. at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. She has worked at Children’s Minnesota for 4 years with focus towards feeding/dysphagia and cognitive communication for oncology and other acute care populations.

Susan Sencer, MD, is currently the Chief and VP of Specialty Pediatrics at Children’s Minnesota, where she was previously the Medical Director of the Cancer and Blood Disorders Program. She attended Grinnell College and medical school at the University of Minnesota. She completed her pediatric residency and pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship there as well. She has been at Children’s Minnesota since 1990 and was the ‘founding mother’ of the Integrative Medicine program there, the first clinical integrative medicine program for pediatrics in the country. Susan was also instrumental in starting the Pain and Palliative care program, which emphasizes the use of integrative therapies for symptom control. She lectures and writes about pediatric integrative oncology, and more recently on the use of medical cannabis in children.