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The SIU Alton Family Medicine Residency Program is happy to offer some upcoming residency program informational sessions via Webex. Please join Program Director, Dr. M. Rebecca Hoffman, and Program Coordinator, Alison Witcher, for these 30-minute sessions to get your questions answered! Each session with begin with a short presentation of general program information and we will then open the session to attendees for questions. Please note that these sessions are not practice interview opportunities . Be prepared to arrive to the session(s) of your choice on time to ensure you hear the entire

Bloomington-Normal native and fourth-year medical student Emilee Gibson is a force. The Class of 2023 president, medical student representative to the Illinois State Medical Society’s Government Affairs Council, and future OB-GYN is advocating for women on a personal level as well as at local, state and national levels. TELL US ABOUT YOUR EDUCATION PRIOR TO SIU. I attended the University of Iowa and earned a Bachelor of Science in human physiology with minors in global health and Spanish. I loved my time in Iowa City cheering on the Hawkeyes and studying a wide variety of topics. I especially

New physician assistant Harshi Perera is a native of Sri Lanka -- the "Pearl of the Indian Ocean" -- and followed her childhood passions to become a health care professional.

Future physician assistant Katy Coyer, Class of 2020, is an avid nature enthusiast with a passion for learning. Where did you grow up? I grew up outside of Oglesby, a small town in north-central Illinois. Starved Rock State Park was my backyard. What did you want to be as a child? When I was about 3, I declared to my mom that I wanted to be a pediatrician on the moon. What were you like as a teen? To be completely honest, I was a total nerd. I remember a lot of Friday nights spent at home making biology study guides while watching Star Trek. Where did you attend college? St. Ambrose University

Published in Aspects Magazine, Summer 2018, Vol 41-3

As the chief resident physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Tyler Fulks, MD, Class of 2016, has made it his life’s mission to provide the best care to patients having their worst days. What was your childhood like? Dr. Tyler Fulks: I grew up not far from here in Chatham. As a boy, I knew I wanted to be either a rock star, a racecar driver or a doctor. I’m glad at least one of those seemed to pan out. I used to race go karts. My dad’s whole side of the family races to this day. I retired from racing in middle school, but at the time I was actually pretty good. What made you choose

Medical student Barra Madden had dreams of becoming a professional dancer until personal and familial health challenges forever changed her life – and career path.

Jennifer Becker, MD, MPH, is a first-year resident in Emergency Medicine. She completed her dual degrees in May, just after she received a 2020 Excellence in Public Health Award from the U.S. Public Health Service Physician Professional Advisory Committee for projects she initiated in southern Illinois. WHAT DID YOU ENJOY ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND SPRINGFIELD? I don’t think I could’ve had a better group of students to go through school with, and I had a lot of tutor groups with people that I really enjoyed seeing all of the time. Third year was by far the best, getting to rotate in so

Hailing from Divernon, Illinois, Jesse Britz is a pharmacology and neuroscience graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology. He has been the student representative of the Graduate Program Committee and chief coordinator of “Brain Awareness Week.”