Pandemic Health Worker Program offers home care, monitoring
  JUNE 9, 2020 – SPRINGFIELD - Sheltering at home has created problems among some of Springfield’s more vulnerable residents and families who are struggling to maintain their physical and mental health
      
    
              
  
    Police Brutality and Public Health
  Police brutality illuminates a dark history in our society. There is no single universally agreed upon definition or guideline for when to use force. However, we know it when we see it. Police
      
    
              
  
    50 years of education, health care & service
  In May, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine held a historic commencement recognition for the medical student graduates of the Class of 2020. The ceremony was full of milestones. It was the
      
    
              
  
    2021 Pharmacology Awards
  Congratulations to the winners of SIU School of Medicine's 2021 Pharmacology Award winners. The awards honor students and researchers for their excellence in academics, research and leadership in the
      
    
              
  
    Racism's Threat to Public Health - a Message from the Dean
  On April 6, 2020, my message to SIU Medicine employees focused on racial inequities in the delivery of health care, racial disparities in health care outcomes, and the overt and implicit systemic
      
    
              
  
    SIU School of Medicine Faculty Promotions and Tenure, 2019-20
  SUMMARY OF 2019-2020 PROMOTION AND TENURE RECOMMENDATIONS At its April 30, 2020, meeting, the SIU Board of Trustees approved promotion and tenure for assorted faculty members. The promotions take
      
    
              
  
    2020 Wound Care Symposium | More Than Skin Deep
  The 2020 Wound Care Symposium was held March 12, at the IEA building in Springfield, IL. Healthcare workers in Central Illinois were invited to attend and could earn CME credit for attending the
      
    
              
  
    Doug Carlson named to COVID-19 IL Task Force
  SIU Medicine chair of pediatrics Doug Carlson, MD, was recently named to the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Task Force on Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Associated
      
    
              
  
    AWIMS earns 2020 Inspiring Affinity Group Award from "INSIGHT into Diversity" magazine
  The SIU School of Medicine Alliance of Women in Medicine and Science (AWIMS) group has been named a recipient of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine’s 2020 Inspiring Affinity Group Award ! INSIGHT Into