Patrick Gallagher is the Senior Vice President, Health Policy and Finance at the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. Patrick’s department is responsible for assisting members with a wide range of hospital payment and regulatory issues including Medicare and Medicaid payment, health insurance regulations, hospital charity care and tax exemption issues and state and federal regulatory related challenges. Patrick coordinates IHA efforts to assist members to prepare and participate in value based health care delivery and payment programs. He is also directly involved in the review and

Madhu Viswanathan (B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, IIT, Madras, 1985; Ph.D. (Marketing), University of Minnesota, 1990) Professor of Marketing, College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University in 2019 Professor Emeritus, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research programs are on measurement, and subsistence marketplaces, where he has authored several books including Measurement Error and Research Design (Sage, 2005), Enabling Consumer and Entrepreneurial Literacy in Subsistence Marketplaces (Springer, 2008), Subsistence Marketplaces (2013)

Audrey Soglin is the Executive Director of the Illinois Education Association (IEA). She taught in Evanston, Illinois for 25 years. Ms. Soglin started her career teaching self contained special education students and after eight years, moved to regular education where she taught kindergarten, first, second, fourth and fifth grades. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Illinois Education Association, Audrey was the Director of the Center for Education Innovation for IEA and the Executive Director of the Consortium for Educational Change. As Executive Director of the IEA, Ms. Soglin

Bryan Samuels is the Executive Director of Chapin Hall, one of the nation’s leading research and policy centers focused on improving the well-being of children and youth, families and their communities. He has spent his career building the capacity of child-serving systems to produce positive outcomes for children, integrating empirical evidence into public policy and service delivery, streamlining management and operations in government and non-profit agencies, and emphasizing the emergence of a cutting-edge body of scholarship in neuroscience and its potential for innovative contributions to

Mike Lawrence retired Nov. 1, 2008, as director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. He joined the institute as associate director in 1997 and became director after the death of Paul Simon in December 2003. In addition to serving as director, he taught classes in both the political science and journalism departments. Prior to joining SIU, Lawrence was press secretary and senior policy adviser to Governor Jim Edgar for nearly a decade. He joined Edgar's staff after working as a journalist for 25 years. During his newspaper career, he specialized in Illinois

Alzheimer’s disease could affect more than 14 million Americans by 2050 if a cure isn’t found, the Alzheimer’s Association reports. The Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, part of SIU Medicine’s Neuroscience Institute, is hoping new research studies might change that. Three clinical trials, including the Aware Study by AbbVie, Tauriel Study by Genentech, and GRADUATE I Study by Roche, are now recruiting participants with memory impairment or probable mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of these studies is test how well the medical treatments work at slowing the

Alzheimer’s disease could affect more than 14 million Americans by 2050 if a cure isn’t found, the Alzheimer’s Association reports. The Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, part of SIU Medicine’s Neuroscience Institute, is hoping new research studies might change that. Three clinical trials, including the Aware Study by AbbVie, Tauriel Study by Genentech, and GRADUATE I Study by Roche, are now recruiting participants with memory impairment or probable mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of these studies is test how well the medical treatments work at slowing the

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Cheryl is a senior health policy executive with a distinguished consulting and public service career in public health, population health, health financing and system reform. She currently serves as the Managing Director, Healthcare Payment, Innovation & Quality for the MITRE Corporation. She spent nine years at NORC at the University of Chicago where she was a Senior Fellow in the Public Health Department and over three decades as a senior executive at the US Department of Health and Human Services. She is a results-oriented, decisive leader with a record of high performance; exceptional

Congratulations to the Department of Internal Medicine! The American Journal of Case Reports recently published "Hepatic Involvement in Systemic Sarcoidosis," authored by SIU Medicine faculty and residents Ibrahim AM, Bhandari B, Soriano PK, Quader Z, Gao JZ, Shuster D, and Mamillapalli CK. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305603 Am J Case Rep. 2018 Oct 11;19:1212-1215. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.910600. PMID: 30305603 Similar articles