Thank you for your interest in the Anniversary Brew Tasting. This event has been canceled and an official kick-off event will be hosted during our anniversary year. We look forward to celebrating with you in 2020!

The SIU School of Medicine Department of Surgery Annual Teaching Awards were presented on August 8, 2019. The awards are held to recognize the entire Department of Surgery faculty and are from General Surgery, Urology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Neurosurgery. Award recipients are chosen based upon the evaluations submitted by the residents about the faculty and are based on the numbers but more importantly, on the comments made by the residents. The Division of Orthopedic Surgery would like to congratulate: Resident Teaching: SIU Faculty

Internal Medicine Publications Meta-Analysis Evaluating Outcomes of Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion During Cardiac Surgery Authors: Abdisamad M Ibrahim, MD/ Nitin Tandan, MD/ Cameron Koester, DO/ Mohammad Al-Akchar, MD/ Bishal Bhandari, DO/ Albert Botchway, MD/ Jumana Abdelkarim, MD/ Ruby Maini, MD/ Mohamed Labedi, MD Published online August 1, 2019. Published in the October issue of The American Journal of Cardiology. https://www.ajconline.org/article/S0002-9149(19)30832-X/pdf

SIU School of Medicine authors published 34 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. Display the 34 citations in PubMed

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Internal Medicine Presentations "Acute Leukoencephalopathy After Chasing the Dragon" Authors: Liao H-I, Izaguirre-Anariba D, Tandan N, Shah N, Mir T. SCCM. February 18, 2019. "A Young Woman With an Unusal Cause of Severe Abdominal Pain Due to Massive Splanchnic Thrombosis" Authors: Izaguirre-Anariba D, Tandan N, Liao H-I, Adarkwah O, Thet Z, Mir T. SCCM. Februrary 18, 2019. https://oce.ovid.com/article/00003246-201901001-00471/HTML

Internal Medicine Presentations "Fulminant Necrotizing Myositis with Concurrent Streptococcus Bovis Bacteremia" Authors: Liao H-I, Izaguirre-Anariba D, Tandan N, Mir T. SCCM. Februrary 18, 2019. https://oce.ovid.com/article/00003246-201901001-00590/HTML

Internal Medicine Presentations "Uncommon or Under Diagnosed: Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy" Authors: Koester C, Vlamis C, Kulkarni A. Illinois ACC Fellows in Training Poster Session; 2019, March 7. Chicago, Illinois. "Cardiac Arrest and Cetuximab- A Potentially Lethal Combination" Authors: Tandan N, Maini R, McCarty R, Bhattarai M, Kulkarni A. Illinois ACC Fellows in Training Poster Presentation; 2019, March 7. Chicago, Illinois

Internal Medicine Presentations "A Catatonic Surprise" Authors: Abbot N, Koester C, Bottum K. 2018 Amercian Neuropsychiatric Association Annual Meeting Abstracts. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018;30(3):e1. https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.17100225

Internal Medicine Presentations "Unusual Case of NSTEMI Associated with Myocardial Bridge" Authors: Ibrahim A, Ali M, Kulkarni AK. CHEST Conference. October 2018;154(4). https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(18)31255-8/fulltext