The cardiology training program broadly is divided into three areas: Inpatient and consultation Outpatient practice Invasive and non-invasive procedural and diagnostic testing The methods of assessing such procedural competence (cardiac catheterization, invasive procedures, cardioversions, echo/TEE, nuclear, etc.) are done through several mechanisms. Fellows will be supervised in all phases of invasive procedures in the cardiac cath lab, electrophysiology lab, and non-invasive lab for TEE procedures and cardioversions. Assessment is done through direct, daily supervision and instruction and

Teaching rounds will occur daily on the clinical services and procedural labs (echo, nuclear, cath). Rounds on the clinical services typically will take place in the morning. The procedural areas will also round daily to review all the diagnostic testing (cath, echo, nuclear). These services may round more than once a day depending on the clinical volume.

The Core Curriculum Conference Series will be taught by full-time clinical cardiology faculty. Periodically we will have external guest speakers on selected topics and utilize internal SIU faculty from other divisions regarding topics such as Hypertension, Radiology topics, Research design/biostatistics, ethics, and others. Conferences will include: Clinical Conference Cardiology Grand Rounds EP/ECG Conference Echo/Imaging Conference Cath Lab Conference Journal Club Patient Safety Morbidity and Mortality Other topics of interest. The core curriculum conferences will include an acute care

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Dr. Satu Somani was one of the original faculty members of the SIU-SOM Department of Pharmacology and a dedicated scientist educator. He loved teaching, often asking for more time to teach additional material he felt important to the student’s medical education. Dr. Somani passed suddenly in 2002. To honor Dr. Somani’s memory, a fund was setup by Mrs. Somani to enable the Department of Pharmacology to annually award an outstanding student of Medical Pharmacology a monetary stipend. In addition a plaque with the recipient’s name hangs outside the departmental office on the 3 rd floor of 801

Three graduate students from the Department of Pharmacology won awards at the 31st Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium held on April 23, 2021. Jesse Britz from Dr. Tischkau’s lab won 1st place for his oral presentation. Caleigh Findley from Dr. Erin Hascup’s lab and Madan Ghimire from Dr. Caspary’s lab won 3rd place for their oral presentations. The title of the presentations were: Jesse Britz - Sex-Dependent Impact of Chronic Circadian Disruption on SCN Neuropeptide Expression Caleigh Findley - Abnormal Glutamatergic Neurotransmission and Cognitive Impairment in Male AppNL-F/NL-F Mice

Seventy-two physicians and one graduate student at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine received their diplomas on Saturday, May 19, in the Sangamon Auditorium at University of Illinois Springfield during the school’s 44 th commencement. This year’s commencement speaker was U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL). Durbin previously spoke at the 1995 commencement as a congressman, when he represented the 20th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also was a volunteer professor of medical humanities at SIU School of Medicine from 1986-97. His remarks touched upon

Seventy-two physicians and one graduate student at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine received their diplomas on Saturday, May 19, in the Sangamon Auditorium at University of Illinois Springfield during the school’s 44 th commencement. This year’s commencement speaker was U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL). Durbin previously spoke at the 1995 commencement as a congressman, when he represented the 20th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also was a volunteer professor of medical humanities at SIU School of Medicine from 1986-97. His remarks touched upon

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