Fiona Fonseca, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. - Dr. Fonseca is a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Their current fellowship includes a focus on transgender medicine and reproductive psychiatry. They have special interests in cultural psychiatry, psychotherapy, medical ethics, physician wellness, and advocacy for their patients and profession.

Sheharyar Sarwar, D.O. - Sheharyar Sarwar is a board-certified psychiatrist and a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic. From the onset of his training, Dr. Sarwar has been working closely with a variety of specialties to identify and treat delirium, recognizing unique cases and formulating individualized treatment plans for patients and teams to achieve best outcomes. During his fellowship, Dr. Sarwar has been working with residents to do a “deep dive” into the current literature surrounding delirium. Other areas of interest for Dr. Sarwar include cultural psychiatry, integrated behavioral health, catatonia, schizophrenia, mood disorders, neurocognitive disorders, and neuromodulation. Outside of his fellowship, he is involved in multiple national organizations, working to promote the service of humanity in the United States and abroad. Dr. Sarwar will sit for his consultation-liaison psychiatry boards in September of 2023.

Emily Bodensteiner Schmitt, OTD, OTR/L - Emily has worked at Mayo Clinic Rochester as an occupational therapist since September 2016, and her career to date has been dedicated to ICU rehab. She currently serves at the ICU clinical lead OT, and she is a Mayo Clinic Gold Quality fellow. She is actively involved in research, projects, committees, and presentations related to the ICU embedded therapy model, delirium management, and Post-Intensive Care Syndrome. Emily completed her Master of Occupational Therapy degree at the University of Minnesota Rochester in 2016 and her Occupational Therapy Doctorate at University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2022.

Kaylee Lanser, M.S., CCC-SLP - Kaylee is a speech-language pathologist at Mayo Clinic Rochester. Over the past nine years at Mayo Clinic, she has provided evaluation and treatment to both inpatients and outpatients in the areas of speech, language, cognitive communication, and dysphagia. She enjoys working with patients along the entire continuum of care, rotating among acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and outpatient communication/cognition settings throughout the year. Her clinical interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, functional and patient-centered goal setting, family/caregiver training and, above all, empowering and training patients in self-advocacy despite their various communication challenges. She has published and presented nationally on dysphagia issues related to Parkinson disease and public perception of non-oral nutrition. She enjoys providing education and observation opportunities for PM&R and Neurology residents, nursing staff, Mayo Clinic's Clinical Fellows and PT/OT colleagues.

Ashley Vincent, M.S., O.T. - Ashley is a mental health occupational therapist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Ashley’s practice interests include adolescent and young adult, geriatric, and community mental health. Before joining Mayo Clinic, Ashley worked with geriatric Veterans. Ashley completed a clinical rotation focused on mental health at Mayo Clinic. In fall, 2020, Ashley graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to occupational therapy, Ashley worked as an educator in Portland, Oregon.

Trish Wagle, O.T., MOT - Trish is an occupational therapist at Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN. She works in several areas of mental health including inpatient therapy, outpatient therapy, and the adult Pain Rehabilitation Center program. Her practice interests include chronic pain management, mood disorders, adult-onset ADHD, and cognitive assessment. Prior to starting her career as an OT, Trish was a middle school and high school teacher and instructional designer.

Kalli Paukert, M.S., OTR/L - Kalli has been an Occupational Therapist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN since June 2020. Her educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and her master’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse. Kalli completed a level two fieldwork at Mayo Clinic on the mood disorders unit. She continued to pursue this field of interest as she joined the OT mental health practice at Mayo Clinic. Kalli works in inpatient and outpatient mental health with adolescents and adults as well as the pediatric pain rehabilitation program. She also supports the acute care practice providing weekend coverage. Recently, Kalli expanded her skill set and is trained in using biofeedback as a treatment intervention to promote stress management and use of relaxation skills.

Rachael Juba, MA., OTR/L. - Rachael has worked in a variety of mental health practice areas including inpatient settings, partial hospitalization programs, and residential treatment facilities. Her practice interests include program development, values-driven interventions, and biofeedback.