Dr. Michael Neumeister received his medical degree from the University of Toronto. He had previously completed a degree in physiology and pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Neumeister was an emergency physician in Toronto, Ontario for one year following his internship at the Toronto East General Hospital. He started in a general surgery residency at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and went on to complete his plastic surgery residency at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Dr. Neumeister attended Harvard University's Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston as a microsurgery fellow. He completed a hand and microsurgery fellowship at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Plastic Surgery Institute.
Dr. Neumeister is board certified in plastic surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC).
He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr. Neumeister has received awards for presentations given regionally, nationally, and internationally, has authored numerous book chapters and articles, and has multiple research interests. He serves on numerous national committees.

Tracy Lower, MD is a SIU School of Medicine graduate (1988).  She joined the faculty of SIU in 1991 as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and has since been promoted to Associate Professor and Medical Director of the Inpatient Unit at St. John's Children's Hospital.  As a pediatrician, it is natural for her to view the overall goals and skills necessary in becoming a physician.  Dr. Lower’s philosophy:  “Teaching and medical education is much more than those one-on-one teachable moments that I sincerely enjoy.  There are responsibilities to the patient population and accrediting bodies with guidelines and requirements that must be maintained.  In working with adult learners, I feel that these must be transparent.  My goal in directing educational programs is to exceed requirements in novel ways that do not interfere with the inherent learning process…”  She has seen the number of students in pediatrics rise from 4% for the Class of 2001 to 13% for the Class of 2006.

Dr. James M. Daniels II joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield as an assistant professor of family and community medicine. He has since been promoted to professor.  Daniels earned his bachelor's degree at Quincy University (1980) and his medical degree at SIU (1983). He completed his residency at SlU's Quincy family practice program (1986) and a fellowship in occupational medicine at University of California San Francisco (1988). He received his master's of public health program at the Medical College of Wisconsin (1992).  He became the Director of the SIU Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship – Quincy program in 2003.
Daniels is board certified in occupational medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine and in family practice by the American Board of Family Practice and has a CAQ in primary care sports medicine. He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice and a member of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American College of Occupational/Environmental Medicine, the Central States Occupational Medicine Association, the Society of Occupational/ Environmental Health, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.