Dear Colleagues: On a quarterly basis, I will provide a written or video description of some of the recent activities, accomplishments, and upcoming events at SIU Medicine. I will keep you appraised of the various opportunities and challenges that are before us. These updates certainly will not include all of the important activities at SIU Medicine, but I will try to represent things that fulfill our mission and strategies, and that I will also bring to the attention of the leaders of the SIU System. This communication is a type of “News and Views” delivered right to your desktop. I will

Wiley Jenkins, PhD, MPH, FACE Division Chief, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Eric Adjei Boakye, PhD, MA Assistant Professor Rebecca Bolinski, MA Graduate Assistant John Bresett, MS Graduate Assistant Megan Dandurand, MSW Research Project Specialist Stacy Grundy, DrPH, MPH Research Assistant Professor Min Jee Lee, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor Allison Spenner, MS Senior Research Project Coordinator Mary York, MSW Graduate Assistant

Thomas (TJ) Albers, MA Health Policy Coordinator Latiyfa Fields, MA Health Policy Specialist Amanda Fogleman, MEng Senior Research Project Coordinator Carolyn Pointer, JD Policy Director

Amanda Fogleman, MEng Senior Research Project Coordinator Jessica Grim, MPH, CHES Research Project Coordinator Tracie Johnson, MA Assistant Instructor Anne Scheer, PhD Assistant Professor Nicole Summers-Gabr, PhD, MS Assistant Professor

John Bresett, MS Graduate Assistant Department of Population Science and Policy Contact john.bresett@siu.edu Primary Responsibilities My primary responsibility for the Department of Population Science and Policy is to assist in research aimed at improving health outcomes in central and southern Illinois. About I earned my bachelor’s degree in anthropology in May 2015 from the State University of New York at Potsdam. After completing my program, I worked as a substance-abuse counselor for two years. After my first year, I decided to continue my education and pursue a master's degree in

"Thrombotic Mid LAD Occlusion Presenting as Isolated Inferior Wall STEMI" Bishal Bhandari, DO, PGY2 and Giselle A. Baquero, MD Poster Presentation at the 2019 Miami Valve Conference. Miami, Florida. Bishal Bhandari, DO is a second year Internal Medicine Resident, SIU School of Medicine. Giselle A. Baquero, MD, Division of Cardiology, SIU School of Medicine.

Ever wonder why “an apple a day keeps the doctor away?” The Medical Library has a new resource that can help answer this and other questions about complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies! Natural Medicines is widely respected as “the most authoritative resource available” on these treatments and aims to provide health professionals clinically practical information by using an empirical, evidence-based approach. In the same way that other databases are routinely updated to include the most recent primary literature, all monographs are reviewed and updated every 24 months at

The Medical Library has compiled the collective scholarly works of four SIU-SOM “founding figures:” Dean and Provost Richard Moy, Dr. Howard Barrows, Dr. Roland Folse, and Dr. Reed Williams. These documents serve as the inaugural collections in our new archival platform, ArchivesSpace. One physical copy of each work has been placed in the School of Medicine Archives to be preserved in perpetuity. This ensures that the works of these scholars will be available for researchers for years to come. Highlights of the collection include: Dean Moy’s speech on the History of SIU-SOM Reed Williams’s

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The Department of Population Science and Policy is collaborating with education faculty and staff to provide students with up-close, experiential learning activities. In addition to offering resource sessions centered on our three divisions, the education team is also able to introduce students to a vast number of projects in which they can assist. Research topics include children’s health and development, cancer disparities with an emphasis on rural areas, sexually transmitted infections, health systems policy, and other projects of interest. For more details on opportunities, contact Carol