Background: The Community Health Needs Assessment identified pediatric asthma as a problem disproportionally impacting children on the East side of Springfield. A community based approach using community health workers and home visits was developed to reduce Emergency Room visits due to uncontrolled asthma. Project Lead: Carolyn Pointer, JD OPSP Team Members: Arden Caffrey, Sameer Vohra, Amanda Fogleman, and Georgia Luckey. Outside of OPSP, Patrice Jones from SIU Office of Regional Programs is also working with this program. Collaborators: HSHS St. John's Office of Community Benefits, led by

Anne Scheer, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Population Science and Policy Contact 217-545-8512 ascheer65@siumed.edu Primary Responsibilities My primary responsibilities include community-oriented research in rural areas across Central and Southern Illinois, with a particular focus on child health and wellbeing, as well as assisting in grant and manuscript writing, and general duties as assigned. About Born and raised in Berlin, Germany, I hold a Master’s degree in Sociocultural Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Freie Universität Berlin. Following my MA research about a legal

SIU Vascular Surgery is known nationally and internationally for its cutting-edge treatment of diseases of the arteries and veins throughout the body to prevent stroke, death, limb loss, and disability. The members of the Division of Vascular Surgery are SIU’s only surgeons who are Board-Certified to treat vascular disease and the only SIU surgeons treating vascular disease who can offer both traditional surgical repair and minimally-invasive treatment of aortic aneurysms, carotid artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, varicose veins, and dialysis access. This distinction allows us to

Mailing address: Southern Illinois Trauma Center at Springfield Memorial Hospital Box 19663 Springfield, IL 62794-9663 Informational Phone Number: 217-545-5183 E-mail: For general questions trauma@siumed.edu

James, E., & Samson, E. (2017, April) Medical-legal partnership: A hands-on education tool for social determinants of health. Poster presented at the SIU Medicine Symposium for Teaching and Learning annual medical education conference in Springfield, IL. James, E., & Samson, E. (2015, November) Why do we screen who we screen? BRCA mutation genetic risks and guidelines for Latina and African-American women. Poster presented at the 2015 American Public Health Association annual conference in Chicago, IL.

SIU Family and Community Medicine, Medical-legal partnership: Investigating Medical-legal Partnership As Medical Education 2016-Present Students Involved: Emily Samson and Emma James SIU Mentors: Carolyn Pointer, JD Emily and Emma, under the direction of Rachel Miller, JD, and Carolyn Pointer, JD, designed and implemented a novel inpatient medical-legal partnership screening process using second year medical students. We are going to investigate the efficacy of the program as a social determinants of health education tool through qualitative analysis with the first cohort. We also plan to

Student Research Current MD/MPH students are engaged in several research projects, both in Carbondale and Springfield. For more information on those projects, click here . Medical students that are not in the MD/MPH track are also involved in research projects with Population Science and Policy faculty. The Department welcomes medical students into their research. For more information on the types of projects we are working on, please see the Science and Policy tabs. Publications and Presentations MD/MPH and Medical students have opportunities to showcase their work at various conferences and

Students The MD/MPH program is a five year program that begins in Carbondale. Students who have been accepted to medical school at SIUSM, but have not yet started medical school, are eligible to apply for the program. Students accepted to the program spend their first year completing MPH coursework in Carbondale. In the second year, students start medical school. In the fifth year (MS4), the students take MPH specific electives and complete a practicum. MD/MPH Faculty Faculty members from SIU Medicine and SIU Carbondale work together to educate the MD/MPH students. For more information on the

Trauma centers treat the most serious and complex combinations of injuries, those from which a person may be at risk of loss of life or limb. The SITC follows international guidelines for a Level I trauma center as established by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Thus, the SITC provides resources for all areas of trauma care, from prevention, through emergency department and hospital treatment, and into rehabilitation. After providing initial emergency evaluation, the SITC trauma team continues its direct involvement, providing advanced critical care, specialized medical

Resident Research Oral Presentations 2019 Khan, Taylor, Zahnd, Ganai. Gastrointestinal Cancer Incidence and Trends in United States Rural and Urban Populations. Presented at DDW 2019 May 18, 2019, San Diego, CA Shackleton, Knight, Wietfeldt MD, N Engelking RN, J Thiele MD, J Rakinic MD. Incidence of adenoma in normal risk patients younger than 50 higher than previously reported. Presented at Ohio Valley Society of Colorectal Surgery, April 27, 2019 Shackleton, Knight, Pacheco, Rakinic, Thiele, Wietfeldt, Engleking. Colorectal cancer screening in average risk patients younger than 50, is it