June 28, 2007                                                  

Two SIU School of Medicine faculty members have received professional honors -

Dr. Thomas H. Tarter, Ph.D., associate professor of urology, has been elected as a member of the Society of Urologic Oncology, a national organization for urologic oncologists interested in improving care for patients with malignant genitourinary diseases as well as developing education and research in urologic cancers.

Tarter joined SIU's faculty in 2001.  He sees patients in Springfield as well as the division’s outreach clinic in Marion.  He is board certified by the American Board of Urology.

Tarter completed his residency in urology at the University of Southern California Medical Center in Los Angeles (1996).  He received his medical degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y. (1990), a doctorate in anatomy from Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine in Portland (1983) and bachelor’s from Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore. (1977).  He was a fellow at the Center for Biomedical Research at Rockefeller University in New York (1983-86).

Andrzej Bartke, Ph.D., professor of internal medicine and physiology and distinguished scholar, received an honorary doctorate degree, Doctor Honoris Causa, from Lodz Medical University in Lodz, Poland, in May.  In addition to the formal ceremony bestowing the degree, Bartke presented a guest lecture, titled "Genes that extend life.”

Bartke, joined SIU’s faculty in 1984.  He previously received the inaugural Methuselah Prize for his contributions to life extension research resulting in the longest lived mouse (2003).  Bartke received his doctorate in zoology genetics from the University of Kansas in Lawrence (1965) and his magister degree (equivalent of M.S.) from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland (1962).

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