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Kyle Palazzolo, JD was the featured speaker for the annual Theodore R. LeBlang Distinguished Lecture titled "Insuring Equality: Removing Barriers to Health Care for the LGBT Community and People Living with HIV" held on March 1, 2016. Mr. Palazzolo is "a Staff and HIV Project Attorney in the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest organization dedicated to advancing the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and individuals living with HIV. He is also a lead strategist of Lambda Legal’s Health Care Fairness program work." "Palazzolo’s work has

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists held its clinical and scientific meeting in San Diego, CA on May 6-9, 2017. Two SIU Medicine medical students and one resident presented their research at this meeting. Sofia Candel is a fourth year medical student, who is going into an OB/GYN residency this summer, and Christine Sulmers is a third year medical student planning to pursue an OB/GYN residency next year. Dr. Aguirre is a resident in our department, who presented his basic science research project at ACOG. ASSESSMENT OF FETAL ULTRASOUND TRAINING FOR OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

In order to formally recognize the crucial and expansive role of a program coordinator, the Office of Graduate Medical Education assembles a committee annually to select a GME coordinator for the Outstanding Coordinator Award. Written nominations are welcomed from faculty, staff, and residents/fellows. These are compiled and reviewed by the committee prior to selection. Nicole Workman is the recipient of the 2017 Oustanding Coordinator Award. Nicole is the program coordinator for General Surgery and has been in this role for four years. She also serves as a mentor and team leader for other

Dr. Satu Somani was one of the original faculty members of the SIU-SOM Department of Pharmacology and a dedicated scientist educator. He loved teaching, often asking for more time to teach additional material he felt important to the student’s medical education. Dr. Somani passed suddenly in 2002. To honor Dr. Somani’s memory, a fund was setup by Mrs. Somani to enable the Department of Pharmacology to annually award an outstanding student of Medical Pharmacology a monetary stipend. In addition a plaque with the recipient’s name hangs outside the departmental office on the 3 rd floor of 801

The nation is embroiled in an epidemic that, while not contagious, impacts all sectors of society and devastates communities, especially rural communities. Opioid misuse, including abuse of prescription pain killers and heroin, led to more than 33,000 deaths nationwide in 2016 and nearly 2,000 deaths in Illinois during that same year. And these statistics, counted in lives, continue to rise at alarming rates. National, state, and local governmental bodies fight to stem the tide of this rampant killer. Law enforcement officials, courts, attorneys, and social agencies are caught in the web of

In recognition of the crucial and expanding management role of GME Program Coordinators, the Office of Graduate Medical Education (OGME) assembles a committee annually to select a coordinator for the Outstanding Coordinator Award (OCA). The office requests written nominations from faculty, staff and residents/fellows. Every year OGME receives heartfelt nominations in recognition of the hard work SIUSOM coordinators do on a daily basis. The nominations are compiled and reviewed by the OCA award committee. Typically one coordinator is selected for the award. In 2018 it was determined that there

Highlights from the 2019 Annual ACP Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. *2019 ACP Young Achiever. Dr. Abdisamad Ibrahim. PGY2 *Dr. Andrew J. Varney hooded as Master American College of Physicians

Racial inequalities are pervasive within our systems of education, criminal justice and health care, said Dave McIntosh, PhD, and need to be recognized and addressed for America to achieve its promise. McIntosh delivered “Authentic and Critical Conversations on Race, Health and Patient Care” at the Third Annual Alonzo Homer Kenniebrew, MD, Presentation on Health Inequities and Disparities at the MCLI Tuesday, Feb. 12. McIntosh is the chief inclusion and diversity officer at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. During the program, Dr. Wendi El-Amin, associate dean for equity, diversity and

The School of Medicine's annual Pharmacology Awards were presented May 16 in the Pearson Museum, honoring a trio of scientists for excellence in academics, research and leadership in the lab. Dr. Satu Somani was one of the three original faculty members of the SIU School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and a dedicated scientist and educator. He loved teaching, often asking for more time to teach additional material he felt was important to the student’s medical education. Dr. Somani died in 2002, and to honor his memory, a fund was established to provide a monetary award annually to an

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019-2020 Graduate Medical Education Resident & Fellow Poster Competition held April 2020! 1 st Place: “Increasing Efficiency through Delegation of Duties in a Developmental Disabilities Clinic”, Clayton Parks, M.D.; Ashima Datey-Chakrabarty, M.D.; Patricia Baumann, M.D.; Alborz Javadzadeh, M.D.; Jeffrey I. Bennett, M.D., Psychiatry 2 nd Place: “Lean Six Sigma Approach to Improve Process Variation and Decrease Time-to-Surgery for Hip Fractures", Austin Beason, MD; Evan Davis, PT, MS, MBA; Jennifer Quastler, RN, BSHA; Becky Douglas; Caitlin West; Carol