Doctors and dentists agree: Oral health isn’t just important for staving off halitosis. It’s also a good indicator of what’s going on in other areas of the body, like your heart. “We know that there is a definite correlation between heart disease and gum disease,” says SIU Center for Family Medicine-Lincoln dentist Sharon Molitoris, DMD. According to Molitoris, heart disease and gum disease share many of the same risk factors including smoking, diabetes, age, poor overall health, stress and diet. While experts can’t yet agree if poor gum health causes heart disease or is merely a reflection of

SIU Emergency Medicine residents presented quality projects at the Graduate Medical Education Resident and Fellow Quality Improvement Poster Competition and Symposium. Dr. Shreya Lankala, PGY-3, took first place for "Cost of Quality Waste from Inappropriate Urine Culture Testing in the Emergency Department." Dr. Alexis Koda, PGY-3, presented "Optimizing MRI Utilization in the Emergency Department" and Dr. Mark Baker, PGY-2, presented "Appropriate CT Cervical Spine Utilization in the Emergency Department."

Patient Testimonials Listen to our patients tell their stories of success Diane Stone - Lung Cancer Survivor Kris Castleman - Colorectal Cancer Survivor Raising funds for Cancer Research Every dollar stays in our region Raise Your Hands for Hope - Fighting Cancer Together Raise Your Hands for Hope - Fighting Cancer Together Our Cancer Researchers Cancer Fighting Killer Cells - Andrew Wilber, PhD Flax Seed To Fight Ovarian Cancer - Buck Hales, Phd Our Surgeons Head & Neck Cancer Care - Arun Sharma, MD HIPEC Cancer Treatment - Sabha Ganai, MD, PhD Colorectal Surgeon - Prasad Poola, MD

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Learn more about Child & Adolescent Psychiatry resident Dr. Sudhakar Shenoy, Class of 2019.

Learn more about Child & Adolescent Psychiatry resident Dr. Sudhakar Shenoy, Class of 2019.

ADULTS We will test your hearing and speech understanding both with and without your hearing aids to determine if you could benefit from an implant. Testing is performed by an audiologist who specializes in advanced hearing care. You should bring your recent hearing tests and your hearing aids to your appointment. If you do not have hearing aids – or – if your current aids are not appropriate for your hearing loss, a trial period with new devices will be offered. This step is required by the FDA to ensure that candidates for implantation are selected appropriately. If the audiologist feels

A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device for people who cannot benefit from hearing aids. 1. A device that looks like a small hearing aid fits behind the ear and is held in place on the scalp by a magnet. 2. The internal device is surgically placed under the scalp and sends the signals from the external processor through a small array of electrodes to the inner ear. 3. The signals through the electrodes stimulate the hearing nerve allowing the brain to perceive sound.

written by Karen Carlson | photographed by Jason Johnson “It’s not about health care. It’s about the health of the population. That’s the most important thing.” So said John Whittington, MD, senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Whittington has more than 30 years’ experience in medicine, population health and patient safety and was one of the co-authors of the Triple Aim framework published in 2007. The Triple Aim is “one aim with three dimensions: improving the health of populations, improving the patient experience of care and reducing the