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Medically supervised camp runs through Friday, June 29

Students and staff in the Physician Assistant Program experienced a whirlwind of activities and rites of passage during graduation week 2023.

2018 CHEST Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. October 6-10, 2018. Please visit http://chestmeeting.chestnet.org/ for more information regarding the 2019 CHEST Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Congratulations to our very own, Mirza Ali, MD and Abdisamad Ibrahim, MD, both PGY2's, and Abhishek Kulkarni, MD on your poster acceptance at the 2018 Annual CHEST Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Ali and Dr. Ibrahim traveled to Texas on October 6-10, 2018 to present their poster "Unusual Case of NSTFMI Associated with Myocardial Bridge". Dr. Mirza Ali along with his mentor Dr. Abhishek Kulkarni

Wearing sunscreen outdoors throughout the year, and especially during the hot summer months, is an important lifestyle habit that can protect your skin and improve your health. When used as directed, sunscreen can reduce your risk of skin cancer—the most common type of cancer in the United States—and even help you avoid common age-related skin woes like wrinkles, fine lines and sunspots. In the past few years, however, several sunscreen products from popular brands like Neutrogena®, Aveeno® and Coppertone® have been recalled over concerns that they contain trace amounts of a cancer-causing

The Center for Human and Organizational Potential invites team members to join its new book club. "One of our strategies for developing a mindset around leadership and excellence across the organization is to begin a movement of book clubs across SIU School of Medicine," said John Mellinger, MD, leader of the cHOP's leadership and excellence initiatives. "The clubs will involve small group meetings with colleagues for an hour, once a month, over the course of a year." Books will be provided, and each month approximately one chapter will be discussed. The book club will kick off with "The Truth

Dr. Chris McDowell has been named the new Executive Associate Dean of SIU School of Medicine. He is an alumnus of the school (Class of 2005), chair of Emergency Medicine, an associate professor and the medical director for the Memorial Learning Center.

Seniors learn results from National Resident Matching Program

STUDENT HOMETOWN SPECIALTY RESIDENCY LOCATION Dominic Aiello Springfield Emergency Medicine U Louisville SOM-KY Zachary Andersen Princeton Orthopaedic Surgery San Antonio Military Medical Center Maryam Bakare Sauk Village Emergency Medicine/ACMC Advocate Health Care-IL Samantha Bibee Belleville Fam Med/Columbia-St Marys Med Coll Wisconsin Affil Hosps Amanda Brown Fairfield Plastic Surgery St Louis Univ SOM-MO Paul Cacioppo Collinsville Anesthesiology Mayo Clinic School of Grad Med Educ-MN Blake Cain Marion Family Medicine SIU SOM & Affil Hosps-IL Komal Chaudhry Carbondale Anesthesiology U

See where the class of 2023 will complete their residencies.

Seventy-six medical students in the Class of 2023 have begun their academic medical training at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Carbondale. The students participated in a White Coat Ceremony on Friday, August 16, in Shryock Auditorium. SIU Medicine Dean and Provost Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH, and Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Admissions Erik Constance, MD, welcomed the students. Wendi El-Amin, MD, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion, and Elizabeth Cavanagh, MD, Class of 1998 and president of the school’s Alumni Society Board of Governors, presented them with