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SIU Med Students, Residency Programs Meet Their Match

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Senior medical students in the graduating Class of 2019 at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine received results from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) on Friday, March 15, at the same time other U.S. medical students learned their matches to postgraduate training programs. Sixty-three SIU seniors have secured residency positions.

View the list of students, hometowns, residency locations and specialties. Pictures of individual students are available upon request.

Ten students (16%) will specialize in family medicine, and nine (14%) will specialize in internal medicine, and six students (10%) will begin residencies in radiology. Five (8%) will go into emergency medicine, five (8%) will specialize in obstetrics-gynecology and five (8%) will specialize it anesthesiology. General surgery attracted four students (6%), and pediatrics, plastic surgery and orthopedic surgery each attracted three students (5%). Surgery-preliminary, radiation oncology, dermatology, psychiatry, neurology, neurodevelopmental disabilities, neurosurgery, medicine-pediatrics, pathology, and physical medicine & rehabilitation each attracted one student (2%).

Fifteen (24%) of the 63 students will begin training at SIU-affiliated programs.

“I’m so proud of every one of our medical students as they enter the next phase of their career, post-graduate training in residency and fellowship programs,” said Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH, SIU Medicine dean and provost. “Today’s Match Day ceremony for the Class of 2019, their teachers, colleagues, family and friends, was brimming with vigor and optimism. Our students matched into many excellent training programs across the United States. We’re looking forward to following their careers as clinicians, teachers, researchers and leaders.”

The Class of 2019 at SIU School of Medicine will graduate on Saturday, May 18. New physicians begin their residency training in July.

Match results also were announced Friday for SIU’s residency programs in Springfield, based at the school’s two affiliated hospitals – Memorial Medical Center and HSHS St. John’s Hospital. Seventy-eight starting positions in Springfield were filled. The first-year residents will join more than 200 senior residents and fellows already in training at SIU programs in Springfield.

Thirty-eight first-year positions were filled in general and preliminary internal medicine (16), family medicine (10), general pediatrics (8) and obstetrics/gynecology (4). Twenty-three positions were filled in the eight surgical programs – emergency medicine (8), general surgery (4), neurological surgery (1), orthopaedic surgery (3), otolaryngology (2), plastic surgery (2), urology (2) and vascular surgery (1). Seventeen total positions were filled in other specialties, psychiatry (6), radiology (3), dermatology (3), medicine-psychiatry combined (2) and neurology (3).

“SIU School of Medicine and our partner hospitals in central and southern Illinois continue to match with a robust, accomplished and eclectic group of residents,” said Karen Broquet, MD, associate dean for graduate medical education. “SIU residents are an intrinsic element in the clinical learning environment and interprofessional health care teams that provide quality and patient-centered care to patients.”

SIU also has affiliated family medicine residency programs in Carbondale, Decatur and Quincy, each three years in length. Seventeen first-year positions have been filled for next year through the NRMP match and a similar program held last month for osteopathic physicians. These residents will join 36 senior family medicine residents and fellows at SIU’s affiliated hospitals – Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Decatur Memorial Hospital in Decatur and Blessing Hospital in Quincy.

Established in 1970, the mission of SIU School of Medicine is to assist the people of central and southern Illinois in meeting their health needs through education, patient care, research and community service. An international leader in medical education, the school is based in Carbondale and Springfield and is specifically oriented to educating new physicians prepared to practice in Illinois. Since opening, more than 2,800 physicians have graduated from its program. For more information, visit www.siumed.edu.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Residency Match Results
March 15, 2019
LAST NAME FIRST NAME HOMETOWN (Illinois, unless otherwise indicated) INSITUTION SPECIALTY CITY STATE
AGNEW TYLER EDINBURG NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER-PORTSMOUTH INTERNAL MEDICINE PORTSMOUTH VA
BLESSMAN JOSEPH DIXON MAYO CLINIC SCHOOL OF GRAD MED EDUC-MN FAMILY MEDICINE ROCHESTER MN
BOEDER DANIEL MAESTOWN SIU SOM &AFFIL HOSPS PSYCHIATRY SPRINGFIELD IL
BOUCHER LUKE ALEDO EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER INTERNAL MEDICINE AUGUSTA GA
BRANDT CATHERINE BLOOMINGTON SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS GENERAL SURGERY SPRINGFIELD IL
CASTALDO ANDREA SPRINGFIELD U MASSACHUSETTS MEO SCHOOL PLASTIC SURGERY WORCESTER MA
CLEVELAND MATTHEW DANVILLE SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS RADIOLOGY-DIAGNOSTIC SPRINGFIELD IL
COLLINS JAMES PEORIA INDIANA UNIV SCH OF MED INTERNAL MEDICINE INDIANAPOLIS IN
CUPPINI CANDICE BLOOMINGTON UNIV OF CHICAGO MED CTR-IL ANESTHESIOLOGY CHICAGO IL
DAVIS ELLE CARBONDALE SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS MEDICINE-PRELIMINARY DERMATOLOGY SPRINGFIELD IL
      INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCH OF MED   INDIANAPOLIS IN
DUFNER ANASTASIA GIRARD SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS FAMILY MEDICINE SPRINGFIELD IL
EASTON MADELINE SPRINGFIELD WAKE FOREST BAPTIST MED CTR-NC EMERGENCY MEDICINE WINSTON-SALEM NC
ENRIGHT DANIEL OTTAWA AKRON GEN MED CTR/NEOMED-OH ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AKRON OH
FERRY NICOLAS   SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER INTERNAL MEDICINE SANANTONIO TX
FETTER MADELYN SPRINGFIELD SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS FAMILY MEDICINE SPRINGFIELD IL
GAZDA ALEXIS CHATHAM U ILLINOIS COM-PEORIA OSF EMERGENCY MEDICINE PEORIA IL
GRAFF DYLAN MT. ZION SIU SOM &AFFIL HOSPS EMERGENCY MEDICINE SPRINGFIELD IL
GRAVES JACKSON SPRINGFIELD U ILLINOIS COM-PEORIA OSF MEDICINE-PEDIATRICS PEORIA IL
GROSS JEFFREY JACKSONVILLE INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCH OF MED PLASTIC SURGERY INDIANAPOLIS IN
GROTTS CODY CARTHAGE U IOWA HOSPS AND CLINICS ANESTHESIOLOGY IOWACITY IA
HANLEY THOMAS PEORIA RUSH UNIVERSITY MED CTR-IL RADIOLOGY-DIAGNOSTIC CHICAGO IL
      UNIV OF CHICAGO MED CTR-IL MED-PRELIM/NORTH SHORE CHICAGO IL
HATLEY HA EDWARDSVILLE MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS-MO FAMILY MEDICINE STLOUIS MO
HOCKER NATHANIEL MORTON U IOWA HOSPS AND CLINICS INTERNAL MEDICINE IOWACITY IA
IDUSUYI BRITTANY SPRINGFIELD RUSH UNIVERSITY MEO CTR-IL OBSTETRICS-GYNECOLOGY CHICAGO IL
JAMES EMMA EDWARDSVILLE SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS OBSTETRICS-GYNECOLOGY SPRINGFIELD IL
KAY KATHLEEN EFFINGHAM SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY SPRINGFIELD IL
KIRKOVER KYLE GRANITE CITY U KANSAS SCH OF MED-WICHITA MED COLL RADIOLOGY-DIAGNOSTIC TRANSITIONAUST JOSEPH WICHITA KS
       WISCONSIN AFFIL HOSPS   MILWAUKEE WI
KLEIN ANDREW CHICAGO NORTHWESTERN MCGAW/NMHNA-IL ANESTHESIOLOGY CHICAGO IL
      SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS MEDICINE-PRELIMINARY SPRINGFIELD IL
KORZEC MAX CHICAGO UNIV OF CHICAGO MED CTR-IL ANESTHESIOLOGY MEDICINE-PRELIMINARY CHICAGO  IL 
      U NEVADA LAS VEGAS SCH OF MED   LAS VEGAS NV
KRAMER MITCHELL MOLINE BAYFRONT MRD CTR-FL FAMILY MEDICINE ST PETERSBURG FL
LANTER JACOB FREEBURG ST LOUIS UNIV SOM-MO FAMILY MEDICINE ST LOUIS MO
MAHAN REIANA HARRISBURG UNIV HOSPS-COLUMBIA-MO FAMILY MEDICINE COLUMBIA MO
MAHMOOD MUSTAFAA SPRINGFIELD BARNES-JEWISH HOSP-MO  RADIATION ONCOLOGY
MEDICINE-PRELIMINARY 
ST LOUIS MO
      OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION-LA   NEW ORLEANS   LA
MASSUTTI THOMAS DECATUR SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS RADIOLOGY-DIAGNOSTIC SPRINGFIELD IL
MATTERN MACKENZIE FREEBURG U ILLINOIS COM-PEORIA UPHM  . FAMILY MEDICINE PEORIA IL
MCKILLIP KELSEY GALESBURG MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS-MO OBSTETRICS-GYNECOLOGY ST LOUIS MO
MILLS RORY CHAMPAIGN JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSP-FL PEDIATRICS ST PETERSBURG FL
MITZELFELT JORDON HANNA CITY MAYO CLINIC SCHOOL OF GRAD MED EDUC-MN PEDIATRICS ROCHESTER MN
ARMSTRONG MORAN MARGARET O'FALLON SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER EMERGENCY MEDICINE SANANTONIO TX
NICHOLSON KYRA ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND UNIV OF CHICAGO MED CTR-IL SURGERY-PRELIMINARY CHICAGO IL
O'MALLEY SEAN BLOOMINGTON SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS GENERAL SURGERY SPRINGFIELD IL
OLLESCH BRIDGET MAROA U UTAH AFFIL HOSPITALS NEUROLOGY SALT LAKE CITY UT
PORTER TYLER URSA UNIVERSITY HOSPS-COLUMBIA MO INTERNAL MEDICINE COLUMBIA MO
PORTUGAL AILEEN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA UC SAN FRANCISCO-CA OBSTETRICS-GYNECOLOGY SAN FRANCISCO CA
POWER MATTHEW MARION SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS INTERNAL MEDICINE SPRINGIELD IL
REINHOLZ BRIAN WATERLOO ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSP-MO PEDIATRICS STLOUIS MO
RODEMICH EUGENE MILLSTADT U IOWA HOSPS AND CLINICS EMERGENCY MEDICINE IOWACITY IA
ROTH KELLY MARTINTON CARLE FOUNDATION HOSP-IL INTERNAL MEDICINE URBANA IL
SAMSON EMILY MILLSTADT U NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS FAMILY MEDICINE CHAPEL HILL NC
SAWYER JUSTIN CARLINVILLE SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS PLASTIC SURGERY SPRINGFIELD IL
SCHUH DANIEL MAHOMET U ILLINOIS COM-PEORIA UPHM FAMILY MEDICINE PEORIA IL
SEADLER BENJAMIN SPRINGFIELD MED COLL WISCONSIN AFFIL HOSPS GENERAL SURGERY MILWAUKEE WI
SHARPE JOHN MARION PALMETTO HEALTH RICHLAND-SC ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY COLUMBIA SC
STUMPF MONICA ALHAMBRA MED COLL WISCONSIN AFFIL HOSPS GENERAL SURGERY MILWAUKEE WI
TABIBI SEENA SPRINGFIELD JOHNS HOPKINS HOSP-MD PATHOLOGY BALTIMORE MD
THACH LONNIE CARROLLTON, TEXAS ST LOUIS UNIV SCH OF MED-MO INTERNAL MEDICINE ST LOUIS MO
THOMPSON TERRENCE PORT BARRE, LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY HOSPS-JACKSON-MS OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY JACKSON MS
VARNET MARIE MACKINAW U TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MED SCH-DALLAS NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES DALLAS TX
WANG EDWIN MARSEILLES COOK COUNTY HEALTH AND HOSPS SYS-IL RADIOLOGY-DIAGNOSTIC CHICAGO IL
      UNIV OF CHICAGO MED CTR-IL MED-PRELIM/NORTHSHORE CHICAGO IL
WEBER MATTHEW EDWARDS SIU SOM & AFFIL HOSPS NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY SPRINGFIELD IL
WILLIAMS STEPHEN WASHINGTON MED COLL WISCONSIN AFFIL HOSPS RADIOLOGY-DIAGNOSTIC MILWAUKEE· WI
ZENDELI LIRIDON CHARLESTON MARIANJOY REHAB HOSP-IL PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHAB MEDICINE PRELIMINARY WHEATON IL
      U FLORIDA COM-SHANDS HOSP   JACKSONVILLE FL

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