Depending on the medical service you are looking for, listed are the operational hours for: Dental Clinic Monday - Thursday: 7:40 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Medical Clinic Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Wednesday and Friday: 8:00 am - 11:30 pm For an appointment call (217) 735-2317

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If you are interested in making a difference, please support our cause. Donations may be made online at the secure SIU Foundation giving page . Please contact us if you have any questions.

If you are interested in making a difference, please support our cause. Donations may be made online at the secure SIU Foundation giving page . Please contact us if you have any questions.

Medically vulnerable populations in the United States, including 47 million uninsured people and many more who are underinsured, have woefully inadequate access to healthcare services and to Personal Medical Homes. The medically vulnerable are concentrated in rural areas and inner cities. Our department trains physicians to have the skills, desire, and tenacity to serve medically vulnerable populations, and to have a desire to improve the healthcare delivery systems for their populations. SIU Department of Family & Community Medicine has the distinct opportunity to develop exemplary healthcare

Parenting is a minefield, one littered with harmless myths and lethal falsehoods that could blow up spectacularly without warning. One of the most pervasive and deadly is the idea that vaccines cause autism. No matter how many experts debunk the myth, well-intentioned parents continue to step on this landmine in higher numbers than we’ve seen in our lifetimes. And when that happens? Boom.

Parenting is a minefield, one littered with harmless myths and lethal falsehoods that could blow up spectacularly without warning. One of the most pervasive and deadly is the idea that vaccines cause autism. No matter how many experts debunk the myth, well-intentioned parents continue to step on this landmine in higher numbers than we’ve seen in our lifetimes. And when that happens? Boom.

John M. Flack, MD, MPH, is a board-certified internal medicine specialist and an American Society of Hypertension (ASH)-certified Clinical Hypertension specialist. He completed an NIH post-doctoral fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. He received internal medicine residency training as well as his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society; he also served as chief medical resident at OU. Flack also received a bachelor's degree in