Calendars
April
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Join the Academy for Scholarship in Education for its 10th Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning on April 26, 2019. The symposium is dedicated to showcasing innovations in teaching and learning in medicine, improvements in delivering community-based education, and advances in technology and simulation.
Register online. More information about this event will be added as it becomes available.
The Office of the Associate Dean for Research at SIU School of Medicine invites you to attend the 29th Annual Trainee Research Symposium.
Selected graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will begin presenting at 10 am on Friday, April 26, at Guyon Auditorium and Rotunda at the Morris Library in Carbondale.
For more information, contact Kristi Katcher at kkatcher@siumed.edu.
The SIU Graduate Medical Education Committee is proud to present the SIU SOM Quality Improvement Poster Symposium and Competition. This event will publicly recognize the quality improvement projects that are being done by SIU SOM residents and fellows. Monetary awards will be given for the top three quality improvement projects in addition to an Innovation Award.
May
For more informatiom, please contact Kristie Parkins at kparkins81@siumed.edu.
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Can we decrease the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive impairment as we age? Accumulating evidence indicates that there are a wide variety of lifestyle risk and protective factors that affect cognition and brain health. This conference will present useful, empirically-based information regarding risk and protective factors for healthy versus unhealthy brain/cognitive aging.
This program is designed for clinicians, researchers, and other professionals in health care, wellness and aging.
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Join SIU Medicine's Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders for a free community event on Tuesday, May 7, presented by Tom Ala, MD, interim chief of the Alzheimer's center, and Mehul Trivedi, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at SIU Medicine.
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Alzheimer's research updates Clinical trials Risk factors for dementia Strategies to prevent dementiaThe doctors will also answer audience questions related to risk, prevention and healthy brain aging.
June
The annual Camp COCO Charity Golf Outing is Friday, June 7, 2019, at The Rail Golf Course in Springfield.
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The 2019 reunion, which is being held on June 21 and 22, 2019 in Springfield, celebrates the classes of 1979, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009. A casual and fun Friday night family-friendly reception is planned as well as Saturday events that include a campus tour and class picnics. Saturday night will conclude the reunion weekend in style with a semi-formal (business casual) dinner where you can enjoy wonderful food, mingle with classmates and fellow alumni, and learn about updates at the School of Medicine.
Simmon's Cancert Institute at SIU (SCI) invites you to celebrate in an expression of hope and peace. The SCI's butterfly release is a beautiful way to honor the living and celebrate the memory of loved ones by sponsoring a butterfly in their names.
