Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, FAAN is President and CEO of Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), where he oversees all aspects of PHAB’s mission and work, including accreditation-related strategies, partnerships, long-range planning, PHAB’s Board of Directors, committees/think tanks, and student opportunities. Immediately prior to joining PHAB in January 2020, Dr. Kuehnert served for seven years at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in Princeton, NJ, most recently in the role of Associate Vice President for Program. Prior to joining RWJF in 2012, he spent five years as the County Health

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SIU School of Medicine authors published 39 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. Display the 39 citations in PubMed

Carol Bauer, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and Tom Brozoski, PhD, research professor in Otolaryngology, have retired from their respective positions at SIU School of Medicine. The husband and wife duo came to SIU School of Medicine from Iowa in 1995 with a deep knowledge of tinnitus research and ideas of how to study potential treatments for this phantom ringing in the ears. The couple was a welcome addition to SIU’s Auditory Research Group, already renowned for innovative studies on the neurophysiology of hearing. Brozoski used his

Elected for national committees: Janak Koirala, MD, MPH, FIDSA-Member (2019-22), Global Health Committee, Infectious Diseases Society for America (IDSA) Vidya Sundareshan, MD, MPH, FIDSA-Member (2019-22), Public Health Committee, IDSA Appointed for State of Illinois: Vidhya Prakash, MD, Member, Illinois Council for Women and Girls, chair of the Health and Healthcare Committee Nominated for State of Illinois: Janak Koirala, MD, MPH, Member, IDPH Sepsis Review Task Force

Course Director: Donald S. Torry, Ph.D. 2023 Class meetings: dates/times to be determined. The Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) is offered every other year at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Dr. Donald Torry, Associate Dean for Research, serves as the course director. All of the topics covered in this course are included in PHS guidelines as required training for some types of NIH-sponsored research. The course is MANDATORY for trainees, fellows, participants, and scholars receiving support through any NIH training, career development awards (individual or institutional)

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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