Dr. Sean Ercan-Fang, MD, joined the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Division as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) last month.

Dr. Sean Ercan-Fang most recently practiced at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System serving as a Staff Physician in the Extended Care and Rehabilitation Department. At the Minneapolis VA, he has also held positions of Medical Director for the Community Living, Extended Care and Rehabilitation Department; Geriatrics Services Chief for the VA Contract Nursing Home, Home Based Primary Care and Adult Day Home Care programs; and Physician Liaison for the State Nursing Homes Programs, Home and Community Care Department.

He also has had experience at the Minneapolis Veterans Home serving as a Staff Physician from 1995 to 2014.

Previously, Dr. Ercan-Fang also practiced as a Staff Physician in General Internal Medicine and at the Community Living Center at the Minneapolis VA. He has also served as Clinical Instructor in the Outpatient Clinics at the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Minnesota.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and Medical Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency and the University of Minnesota, fellowship in Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism at the University of Minnesota, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Minnesota Obesity Center at the University of Minnesota and at the Minneapolis VA.

We welcome Dr. Sean Ercan-Fang to the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs!