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Welcome SIU Carbondale Family Medicine was established in 1978 at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. We are pleased you have chosen SIU Carbondale Family Medicine as your medical home. SIU Medicine is a group of family physicians that are trained to care for the entire family. We are concerned with each family member's total well-being. We believe that taking care of the entire family helps us better to understand each member. In addition, we are an accredited Family Medicine Residency which means we train physicians to be Family Medicine specialists with an emphasis on

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 Written by Karen Carlson• Photography by James Hawker Dr. Angela Holbrook ’89, blends two careers: emergency medicine physician and entrepreneur in the heart of Southern Illinois Angela Holbrook, MD, Class of 1989, cradles four bottles of wine that she carefully delivers to a group of eight visitors to the Hidden Lake Winery Oktoberfest. She rushes from table to table, greeting friends and welcoming visitors. She gives duties to her staff like her cousin’s son, Travis. With no makeup, dressed in an orange t-shirt and jeans, Dr. Holbrook looks like a worker herself, not

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 Written by Karen Carlson• Photography by James Hawker Dr. Angela Holbrook ’89, blends two careers: emergency medicine physician and entrepreneur in the heart of Southern Illinois Angela Holbrook, MD, Class of 1989, cradles four bottles of wine that she carefully delivers to a group of eight visitors to the Hidden Lake Winery Oktoberfest. She rushes from table to table, greeting friends and welcoming visitors. She gives duties to her staff like her cousin’s son, Travis. With no makeup, dressed in an orange t-shirt and jeans, Dr. Holbrook looks like a worker herself, not

SIU researcher to study effects of BPA found in consumer products Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 Could your water bottle cause infertility? That’s what Joe Kurian, PhD , research assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology hopes to discover with the help of a three-year, $746,724 grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nearly six billion pounds of bisphenol A (BPA), a compound found in everything from plastic water bottles and food storage containers to thermal paper receipts and baby bottles, is produced globally each

SIU researcher to study effects of BPA found in consumer products Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 Could your water bottle cause infertility? That’s what Joe Kurian, PhD , research assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology hopes to discover with the help of a three-year, $746,724 grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Nearly six billion pounds of bisphenol A (BPA), a compound found in everything from plastic water bottles and food storage containers to thermal paper receipts and baby bottles, is produced globally each

SIU vascular surgery helps patients overcome pain and disability with thoracic outlet decompression surgery Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson Aspects Winter 2015, Vol 38-1. Annalese Corwin, 24, waited a year to be able pick up her five-year-old son, Carter, and give him the hugs he longed for or even push him on the swings at the park. "He was always asking me to take him to the park and push him on the swings, but I just couldn’t do it," she says. The pain in Corwin’s left shoulder, her dominant side, was so deep and the numbness in her arm was so unpredictable that

Injury prevention education spans two generations Aspects 38 No. 1 Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson Traumatic injuries are the leading cause of death for teenagers in the United States, and for survivors of these injuries, life can become one filled with hardships and challenges. For the last 25 years, ThinkFirst’s mission has been to provide injury prevention education, research and advocacy on behalf of SIU School of Medicine. The group, originally called Risky Business, began in 1989 with a small grant for a slide projector. Mary Kay Reed, first director of the

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 While medications can help heal, too much can cause harm and lead to a path of destruction. The same applies to social network site users: too much with the wrong motivations for use can also have damaging results. But some SIU School of Medicine psychologists and counselors feel that social network sites (SNS), when used with the right motivation, could also provide benefits to a subset of patients with mental issues. "The studies regarding the benefits and disadvantages of social media are conflicting because there are so many variables," says Dana Ingram, LCSW

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 While medications can help heal, too much can cause harm and lead to a path of destruction. The same applies to social network site users: too much with the wrong motivations for use can also have damaging results. But some SIU School of Medicine psychologists and counselors feel that social network sites (SNS), when used with the right motivation, could also provide benefits to a subset of patients with mental issues. "The studies regarding the benefits and disadvantages of social media are conflicting because there are so many variables," says Dana Ingram, LCSW