September 14, 2011

Shelda I. Borders, Ph.D., has joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, specializing in psycho-oncology.  She also is a member of SIU HealthCare, the medical school’s practice group.                      

Borders recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in psycho-oncology at SIU (2011).  She completed her doctorate in counseling psychology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock (2010), where she also earned her master’s in psychology (2008).  Borders completed a pre-doctoral internship at Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee (2010).  She earned her bachelor’s in psychology at Anderson University in Anderson, Ind. (2004).

A native of Indianapolis, Ind., she is married to Brent Borders and has one child.

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