He is Associate Director of Resident Training and Education in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is therefore a key liaison in the formal collaboration between PrairieCare and the University of Minnesota. Originally, from Chisholm, Minnesota, he attended college at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English and biology with distinction. Dr. Oberstar attended the first two years of medical school at the University of Minnesota-Duluth prior to completing his clinical training at the University of Minnesota Medical School, graduating with his Doctorate in Medicine in 2001.