July 7, 2020, ALTON, IL ─ The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine has added a new residency program to begin serving patients within SIU Alton Family Medicine next summer. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the program in May. Physicians in the program will provide care through partnerships with Alton Memorial Hospital (a BJC HealthCare facility), Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in

July 7, 2020, ALTON, IL ─ The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine has added a new residency program to begin serving patients within SIU Alton Family Medicine next summer. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the program in May. Physicians in the program will provide care through partnerships with Alton Memorial Hospital (a BJC HealthCare facility), Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in

The SIU Alton Family Medicine Program now has an Instagram and will be posting lots of photos and information as we move along. Head over to www.instagram.com/siualtonfamilymedicine to follow us and watch our journey! Look for our Instagram logo:

SIU School of Medicine authors published 45 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. ( Display the 45 citations in PubMed

Uma Maduekwe, MD Undergrad: The University of Texas at Dallas Medical School: Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine Residency: Loyola University - General Surgery Loyola University - Plastic Surgery Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University/Shock Trauma Center at The University of Maryland - Craniofacial Surgery Why did you choose SIU Hand Fellowship? The main draw was the faculty with their reputation for being excellent 1-on-1 teachers and the camaraderie and esprit de corps that the program is known for. Also, the program makes available to the Hand Fellow a variety of resources

Mission To support education and research at SIU School of Medicine/Department of Surgery/Institute for Plastic Surgery in a meaningful way that drives learners to contribute to advancing science as learners become experts. The research laboratories in the Institute for Plastic Surgery are dedicated to providing research support including grant acquisition, project execution, and data synthesis for publication/presentation. We also provide microsurgical education to SIU School of Medicine medical students and residents. Research Staff Nicole Z. Sommer, MD Associate Professor, Residency Program

Quality improvement projects are those that seek to improve a system to improve process efficiency and effectiveness in the hospital and clinic. Examples include developing protocols, order sets, and routines that ultimately result in improvements in patient care. Memorial Medical Center, one of the community hospitals with which SIU Medicine is affiliated, employs a Lean Six Sigma process to quality improvement projects. All residents receive education regarding the Lean Six Sigma process and receive their “white belt” certification through this program. Residents have the opportunity to

Published work highlighting efforts of the Basic Science Lab Daugherty T. Mechanism of Skin Improvement in Radiation Wounds Following Fat Grafting: The Fate of Adipose-derived Stem Cells and Role of Stromal Vascular Fraction . Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Global Open. 2019 August; 7(8s-1):88-89. doi: 10.1097/01.GOX.0000584720.92614.3b. Mendenhall SD, Schmucker RW, Daugherty THF, Kottwitz KM, Reichensperger JD, Koirala J, Cederna PS, Neumeister MW . A Microbiological and Ultrastructural Comparison of Aseptic versus Sterile Acellular Dermal Matrix as a Reconstructive Material and a