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CHEST Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas

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October 17, 2018

2018 CHEST Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. October 6-10, 2018.

Please visit http://chestmeeting.chestnet.org/ for more information regarding the 2019 CHEST Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

Congratulations to our very own, Mirza Ali, MD and Abdisamad Ibrahim, MD, both PGY2's, and Abhishek Kulkarni, MD on your poster acceptance at the 2018 Annual CHEST Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Ali and Dr. Ibrahim traveled to Texas on October 6-10, 2018 to present their poster "Unusual Case of NSTFMI Associated with Myocardial Bridge".

Dr. Mirza Ali along with his mentor Dr. Abhishek Kulkarni, Division of Cardiology; SIU Medicine also presented on "Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy: An Underrecognized Cause of Heart Failure".

Partnering to strengthen rural health

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Public health, policy and medical leaders from across Illinois gathered at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine for the 2025 Illinois Rural and Small-Town Health Summit to address workforce shortages and access challenges in underserved communities.

Fran Owens honored for work at Survivor Recovery Center

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SIU Medicine care provider Fran Owens has been named Illinois' Social Worker of the Year.

Supported in health, empowered at work

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Specialty care and collaboration is what Lynn needed, and it realized her ideal version of health care: “It's offered here at SIU, and it made all the difference of the world.”