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Tina Hartwig, program coordinator at Decatur Family & Community Medicine, was nominated for and awarded the 2016 Outstanding Coordinator Award. Hartwig has been in this role for over eight years. This will be an annual award sponsored by the Office of Residency Affairs and given to a GME program coordinator. The coordinator must be in this role for a minimum of one year, and must demonstrate a commitment to the mission and behavioral standards of SIU School of Medicine. A committee meets to review the nominations and select an award winner. The award winner consistently demonstrates the

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

The 2017 SIU Medicine Annual Security Report is available. This report and posting of this report is required by federal law and contains policy statements and crime statistics for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield. This report addresses the University’s guidelines, policies, procedures, and programs concerning campus safety and security. It also contains the last three years (2014, 2015 and 2016) of crime statistics that were reported to have occurred on campus, inside of buildings located off campus, on property owned or occupied by the school located off

SIU Internal Medicine & Medical Humanities Grand Rounds Theodore R LeBlang Distinguished Lecture March 14, 2017 8 am - 9 am Memorial Center for Learning and Innovation - Theater 2A "Public Health Law 2017: National Trends" Presenter: James G Hodge Jr., J.D., LL.M. Professor of Public Health Law & Ethics ASV Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Read Professor Hodge's Faculty Profile HERE

Participant Project title Mentor Location Farris Abou-Hanna A comparison of team leader, team member, and objective observer evaluations of leadership Skills during multi-disciplinary trauma simulation Jonathan dela Cruz, MD SIU-SOM, Springfield, IL Brendan Finnell Type I PTH/PTHrP receptor regulates mitochondrial biogenesis and morphology in embryonic mouse cardiomyocytes Lisa D. Wilsbacher, MD, PhD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Kaitlin Gibson Impact of early fluid and electrolyte management of in-hospital outcomes for extremely preterm infants Beau Batton

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

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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