Michael Trangle
Dr. Trangle was born and raised in the Twin Cities area, attended Cornell
University as an undergrad, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis for
medical school and was a resident and Chief Resident at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison. During his first ten years of
practice, he performed inpatient and outpatient
work at 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 AbbottNorthwestern 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 system of care, worked there for approximately seven
years and was Executive Medical Director responsible for the delivery of
inpatient and outpatient care.
For the past 12 years, he has worked at HealthPartners where he is the
Associate Medical Director responsible for the delivery of behavioral health
care at Regions Hospital and within the HealthPartners Medical Group. He
has been active in regional quality improvement initiatives and
collaboratives including depression guidelines, improving depression
outcomes in primary care, and in Behavioral Health clinics, improving care
for patients with mental illnesses and/or chemical dependency in emergency
rooms, in crisis in the community or going through the commitment process.