Leveraging Perspicaciousness with Dr. Heidi Moline

This week features Dr. Heidi Moline living the High Leverage Practice of Perspicaciousness.  From public health to being a pediatrician, she has traveled around the world caring for others and seeing the emergence of trends.  At a very young age, Heidi has been able to connect dots of similarity – in arenas that on the surface seem dramatically different. In this conversation Dr. Moline came to understand that she actually is “perspicacious”, sharing “Sometimes it’s hard to articulate in the moment if I’m thinking of ways we can be connecting this further down the road,and to put time in now and cultivate ideas to really bring energy toward something that may not deliver fruit until some time in the future.”  Dr. Heidi is an inspiration for others who want to claim being the same!

Dr. Moline has already done extensive research, published articles and provided numerous presentations in the areas of acute respiratory distress in children, virus’ and infections in pediatrics and pandemic preparedness.  She worked with Ben-Gurion University and the Ministry of Health with respect to Disaster Preparedness and Response in Israel. Her most recent breakthrough work dealt with Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Minnesota children. In 2019 she spent a clinical month working with mothers and children in Tanzania, and does ongoing work with Somal-Minnesotani mothers to better understand vaccine hesitancy and misconceptions surrounding autism.

 Heidi Moline, MD, MPH, is Chief Resident of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She completed her undergraduate (2008) and medical training (2016) at the University of South Dakota for undergraduate and medical training, and attended Emory University for her masters of public health (2010). In July 2020 she will join the Center for Disease Control’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two year fellowship in applied public health leadership and outbreak investigation.  Additionally she is a clinical instructor of public health at the University of South Dakota.

Dr. Heidi has been honored with the 2019 Certificate in Global Pediatrics, the 2015 Gold Humanism Honor Society Award from the University of Minnesota and the Excellence in Public Health Award from the US Public Health Service.

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