Avanti Mehrotra, MD

Dr. Mehrotra's professional specialties include all medical oncology with special emphasis on thoracic malignancies (lung cancer) and head and neck cancer. She is the medical oncology leader for multidisciplinary lung cancer care at North Memorial. She also provides hematology care especially pertaining to non Hodgkin lymphomas, pregnancy related hematological problems and thrombosis.
She is married and has two sons. Her husband is an interventional cardiologist with North Memorial's Heart & Vascular Institute. In her spare time she enjoys swimming, creative dancing, playing basketball and traveling to historic places with her family.

Eric H. Jensen, M.D.

Harold N. Londer, MD

Harold N. Londer, MD, studied psychology and chemistry at the University of Minnesota, receiving his bachelor's degree with honors. In 1973, he earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota. For his post-graduate medical training, Dr. Londer completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Public Health Services, and also as a clinical associate at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Londer is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Dr. Londer is available for appointments at the Robbinsdale office.

Linda (Xinsong) Li, L.Ac.

Linda (Xinsong) Li received formal medical education in both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine in Kunming, China, and has a medical degree from the Chinese Medical College of Yunnam, China. She was an Internist at Kunming City Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital in Yunnan, China, for 13 years and was the Board Secretary of the Kunming City Traditional Chinese Medical Institution. She also received her Certificate of Clinical Research Methodology from the Chinese Medical Academy in Beijing, and published 10 clinical research papers in medical journals in China. Linda Li acquired her acupuncture license from the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice in 2004 and has over 20 years of clinical experience.

Linda Li uses acupuncture to treat a wide variety of medical conditions, include nausea, vomiting, fatigue, hot flashes, night sweats, pain, and neuropathy, which are associated with chemo-therapy, and other medications, as well as radiation-therapy. She has considerable experience in treating mental conditions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADD and ADHD, and also other health issues such as chronic pain, fatigue, sinusitis, Meniere's Disease, acid-reflux, IBS, menopausal syndrome, restless leg syndrome, rosacea, shingles, and hair loss.

Meenakshi Thirunavu, MD

Meenakshi Thirunavu MD joins Humphrey Cancer Center after two and a half years of private practice in Wisconsin. Dr.Thirunavu is board certified in Hematology, Medical Oncology and Internal Medicine. She completed her Hematology/Oncology fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center and also earned a Breast Oncology certificate. She finished her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Austin where she was distinguished as an outstanding Hematology/Oncology resident. She also served as the Internal Medicine Chief Resident in her fourth year. She received her medical degree from the University of Kerala, India.

While Dr. Thirunavu specializes in treating both hematologic and oncologic malignancies, her special areas of interest include cancers of the breast, brain and lung, coagulation disorders and genetics of familial cancers. Her professional affiliations include American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology and American Medical Association. In her spare time, she enjoys landscape painting, drawing portraits, reading historical novels and spending time with her family.

Rebecca Thomas, M.D.

After completing medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin and internal medicine residency at Hennepin County Medical Center, Dr. Rebecca Thomas headed east for her fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. During her tenure at the NCI, she was chief fellow, received the ASCO Merit Award and earned a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Research from Duke University.

Dr. Thomas' prior clinical positions include assistant professor of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and Senior Associate Consultant at the Mayo Clinic. She has published in major medical journals and maintains a strong interest in the field of colorectal cancer. She completed her internship and residency at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Her professional affiliations include: American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology. A special area of interest is gastrointestinal malignancies.

Thomas Amatruda, MD

Thomas Amatruda, MD, is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School. He completed his postdoctoral training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; hematology and medical oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles; and molecular biology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Prior to joining the Humphrey Cancer Center, Dr. Amatruda was a member of the Medical Oncology section at the University of Minnesota, where his work focused on research of the molecular biology of cell signaling. He also served as the university's co-director of the Familial Cancer Program and the Melanoma Program.

Dr. Amatruda is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, and his clinical interests include the biology and treatment of malignant melanoma, the genetics of familial cancer, and the development of therapies for cancer. He provides medical oncology care at the Fridley office and genetic counseling and treatment of melanoma at the Robbinsdale and Fridley offices.

Todd M. Tuttle, M.D., M.S.

Heather Penning, RN, CNP, MS

Heather Penning has an undergraduate degree in nursing from Viterbo University in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Her first nursing job after college was on an oncology unit in Colorado.

She received her Masters in Oncology Nursing from the University of Minnesota and her Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the College of St. Catherine. She has a special interest in symptom management and the psychosocial coping that accompanies a cancer diagnosis.

She provides symptom management, urgent care and routine follow-up care to patients at the Robbinsdale and Wyoming Humphrey Cancer Center locations.