Eric Meininger is board certified in internal medicine (ABIM), pediatrics (ABP), and adolescent medicine (ABIM).
He currently works at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare as a hospitalist supporting the adult subspecialty consult service and the pediatric inpatient service (PrIMe Team). He sees outpatients with childhood onset disabilities primarily at the Gillette Lifetime Clinic.
He is the residency site director at Gillette for Pediatrics, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, and Pediatric Dentistry residents.
Eric received his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1995. He completed a combination internal medicine / pediatrics residency in 1999 from the University of Minnesota Healthcare System. He completed a fellowship in adolescent medicine from the University of Minnesota in 2002, and received his Masters in Public Health from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 2003.
Eric’s has a variety of career interests, but, at their core, they focus on making healthcare accessible for traditionally marginalized communities. He was the guiding force behind the YouthLink health and wellness clinic for homeless adolescents and was medical director for a number of years. He was the first Director of Outreach of the Community-University Health Care Center. He is one of the founding faculty of the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, a student run clinic for unstably housed and underinsured people in South Minneapolis. He developed an innovative outreach and testing program at the local needle exchange which the Minnesota Department of Health presented nationally as a successful model of bringing healthcare to high risk communities. He worked nationally with the Health Care for the Homeless Clinician’s Network to establish accountability for HRSA grantees to meet the needs of homeless adolescents. He ran a clinic for chronic inebriates at Anishinabe Wakiagun for a number of years, improving the health, developing trust, and decreasing morbidity and mortality in a traditionally dismissed population of men and women. He was the first pediatrician in the state of Minnesota to provide services in cross-gender hormone management for teens and young adults experiencing gender dysphoria with their sex assigned at birth.
In his volunteer life, Eric served two terms on the Minnesota Ryan White Care Act HIV planning council. He is now in his third term as a physician on the Minnesota Department of Human Services Program HH formulary committee. He was the longest-serving board member and board chair of the Rainbow Health Initiative. He is one of the lead ushers of All God’s Children Metropolitan Community Church, and a former Sunday school teacher. He has served nationally as the chair of the Advocacy committee for the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
At home, Eric and his husband, Peter own an 1892 Victorian home in the Lowry Hill East neighborhood of South Minneapolis. They have been hosts with the Minneapolis-based GLBT Host home program, and Eric has previously hosted four homeless, LGBT identified youth in their home. In his spare time, he is learning the arts of upholstery and stained glass design.