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Internal Medicine Presentations "Acute Leukoencephalopathy After Chasing the Dragon" Authors: Liao H-I, Izaguirre-Anariba D, Tandan N, Shah N, Mir T. SCCM. February 18, 2019. "A Young Woman With an Unusal Cause of Severe Abdominal Pain Due to Massive Splanchnic Thrombosis" Authors: Izaguirre-Anariba D, Tandan N, Liao H-I, Adarkwah O, Thet Z, Mir T. SCCM. Februrary 18, 2019. https://oce.ovid.com/article/00003246-201901001-00471/HTML

The Research Policy Committee honored Kristal Adams with the 2022 Frank J. Toth Award, the highest recognition for SIU School of Medicine research support personnel. Adams is a clinical research program director in the Center for Clinical Research.

Winter can be an isolating time of year and that can be especially true for those with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Venturing out into the cold weather and dealing with shorter days limits the options of activities that stimulate the mind. But between indoor activities and adapting some outdoor ones, you can create engaging entertainment for all. (See an infographic from the Smith Alzheimer’s Center .) Remember, while many of these activities aim to use older memories that may still be active, don’t press someone if they remember a certain moment, person or song. The goal is to find activities

The SIU Alton Family Medicine Residency Program is happy to offer some additional 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

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.

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.

Effects are unique between males and females A recent study from the Hascup labs at SIU Medicine has shown how riluzole, a drug compound typically used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), showed different effects on models with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) depending on whether they were male or female. Published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease , the study reports male mouse models with Alzheimer’s and healthy models showed improved glucose tolerance with riluzole treatment. However, female mouse models with Alzheimer's disease did not show significant improvements in metabolism