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The SIU Division of General Surgery and the Springfield Memorial Hospital Advanced Hernia Center present Advanced Hernia Grand Rounds with visiting professor, Eric Pauli, MD. Dr. Pauli is the chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Associate Professor of Surgery and Program Director for the Abdominal Wall Surgery Fellowship at Pennsylvania State University. He developed the “Pauli technique” for parastomal hernia repair, and he will present “Prometheus, Sisyphus and the Challenges of Parastomal Hernia Repair”.

A CUT ABOVE Learning From the Best in Microsurgery Imagine being a resident physician – doing your normal rounds in the emergency department – when you encounter a woman walking in with no pants and covered in blood. Maybe your first thought is that she has suffered some sort of trauma, until you learn that it’s her husband who suffered an accident. In the moment of crisis, she gave the only item of clothing she could, to make a tourniquet and try to prevent her husband’s loss of blood – her pants. The only person who offered her a clean pair of pants, after she had spent several hours in two

Sickle cell disease is painful, leads to a high incidence of stroke and carries with it a much shorter life expectancy than the average person living in the developed world. Andrew Wilber, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology at SIU School of Medicine, and his team are working to change that.

Community health worker Nicol Moore met Amber Hinkle, 41, during a 2021 neighborhood celebration in Comer Cox Park. Amber had chronic leg pain and had become discouraged with her physician. “I’d bring things to my doctor’s attention but they were always getting swept under the rug, or they were misdiagnosed,” Hinkle says. Moore told her about SIU’s Access to Care program and offered to find her a new physician. Within a week, Moore had connected her with Dr. Patrick Long, a resident physician at SIU’s Center for Family Medicine in Springfield. He examined Hinkle and enlisted the help of SIU

After nearly 14 months of negotiations, SIU School of Medicine and AFSCME Local 370 have come to an agreement and successfully ratified a new contract, effective through June 30, 2025.

An Introduction to Helping Skills In this first session, participants will explore elements of a helping/ therapeutic conversation in a 40-minute interactive webinar. Practical application specific to producers and their families will behighlighted, and the webinar will conclude with discussion, questions, and answers. Recognizing Signs of Psychological Distress In the second session, participants will learn to identify typical presentations of depression, anxiety, and suicidality, along with learning triage for suicidal ideation in this 40-minute interactive webinar. Practical application

An Introduction to Helping Skills In this first session, participants will explore elements of a helping/ therapeutic conversation in a 40-minute interactive webinar. Practical application specific to producers and their families will behighlighted, and the webinar will conclude with discussion, questions, and answers. Recognizing Signs of Psychological Distress In the second session, participants will learn to identify typical presentations of depression, anxiety, and suicidality, along with learning triage for suicidal ideation in this 40-minute interactive webinar. Practical application

An Introduction to Helping Skills In this first session, participants will explore elements of a helping/ therapeutic conversation in a 40-minute interactive webinar. Practical application specific to producers and their families will behighlighted, and the webinar will conclude with discussion, questions, and answers. Recognizing Signs of Psychological Distress In the second session, participants will learn to identify typical presentations of depression, anxiety, and suicidality, along with learning triage for suicidal ideation in this 40-minute interactive webinar. Practical application

Quincy will soon be home to a new family medicine doctor. This December Deseray Aguirre, DO, will join the SIU Center for Family Medicine Quincy, 612 N. 11th St.