TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

Written by Lauren Murphy | Photography by Jason Johnson Published in Aspects Magazine, Spring 2016 | Vol. 39 No. 2 Fifty-one-year-old Roy Bellamy was in and out of the emergency department more than 89 times in 2014, amassing upward of $330,000 in hospital charges. His costly pattern led him to Tracey Smith, DNP, and the team of hotspotters, a multidisciplinary group dedicated to identifying and helping hospital super-utilizers like Bellamy. Photo Caption: Dr. Tracey Smith visits Roy Bellamy while he’s not feeling well. In central Illinois, it’s a problem Dr. Smith, community workers and other

Written by Lauren Murphy | Photography by Jason Johnson Published in Aspects Magazine, Spring 2016 | Vol. 39 No. 2 Fifty-one-year-old Roy Bellamy was in and out of the emergency department more than 89 times in 2014, amassing upward of $330,000 in hospital charges. His costly pattern led him to Tracey Smith, DNP, and the team of hotspotters, a multidisciplinary group dedicated to identifying and helping hospital super-utilizers like Bellamy. Photo Caption: Dr. Tracey Smith visits Roy Bellamy while he’s not feeling well. In central Illinois, it’s a problem Dr. Smith, community workers and other

Peanut butter and bananas aren’t the usual therapy tools for patients with cochlear implants. But for 4-year-old David Heady, they whet his appetite to listen. . . and speak. Aspects Volume 39 No. 3 Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson Caroline Montgomery holds up two bananas and David’s face lights up with a wide smile. He clearly likes bananas. "Do you like to eat bananas plain or with peanut butter?" asks Montgomery. While most children David’s age would respond with a quick shout, "peanut butter!" David politely articulates, "I like to eat bananas with peanut butter."

Peanut butter and bananas aren’t the usual therapy tools for patients with cochlear implants. But for 4-year-old David Heady, they whet his appetite to listen. . . and speak. Aspects Volume 39 No. 3 Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson Caroline Montgomery holds up two bananas and David’s face lights up with a wide smile. He clearly likes bananas. "Do you like to eat bananas plain or with peanut butter?" asks Montgomery. While most children David’s age would respond with a quick shout, "peanut butter!" David politely articulates, "I like to eat bananas with peanut butter."

SIU Family and Community Medicine builds new walls, breaks old barriers

SIU Family and Community Medicine builds new walls, breaks old barriers

Dr. Tracey Smith finds happiness in teaching others how to be healthy Aspects Volume 39 No. 2 Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP It’s hard to be unhappy sitting in Tracey Smith’s office at SIU’s Center for Family and Community Medicine. Her walls, window sills, shelves and desk display a sea of brightly colored plaques, mugs and picture frames bearing inspirational thoughts and stories. The canvas displaying the message above is the most prominent in the room, just as its meaning is in Tracey’s life. “So many things that we’re doing at SIU would