Mary Anne Obst

Mary Anne has extensive experience in ICU nursing and also spent many years as a flight nurse.

Mary Anne’s experience at Regions Hospital includes staff nurse on the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Trauma Nurse Clinician, Neurosurgical Nurse Clinician, and FCCS(Fundamentals of Critical Care Support) coordinator.

Mary Anne speaks nationally and internationally about the challenges of fistula care and complex wounds. She is the creator of Fistula Solution products and holds seven patents. She has published articles in Journal of American College of Surgeons, Wounds, Surgical Technology International, Clinical Nutrition, Current Dialogues in Wound Management and The Clinics of North America: Emergency Nursing.

Brian S. Myer, MD graduated from medical school at Albany Medical College, followed by general surgery residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He then completed a surgical critical care fellowship and acute care surgery fellowship at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland. Since then he has worked at Regions Hospital as a member of HealthPartners Medical Group, practicing all facets of acute care surgery. He is currently the director of the Regions emergency general surgery service and is active within the University of Minnesota general surgery residency as one of the associate program directors. He has a particular interest in soft tissue infections and optimizing patient outcomes while also developing systems to most efficiently care for these complex patients.