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The Medical Library is excited to promote the new Leadership Reserve Collection for SIU’s Center for Human and Organizational Potential. cHOP’s mission is to invest in our people and community through personal and professional growth to achieve improvement in our lives and health. The books in this Leadership Collection focus on wellness, leadership and excellence, and professional development. The entire collection is on the far right in the glass bookcases behind the circulation desk; a cHOP sign that says “Leadership Reserve Collection” identifies them and keeps them together. Books may be

In her book Leadership in Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin recounts the life stories and presidential journeys of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. A major theme of the book is that each of these impactful leaders was forged out of the challenges they faced in their early life, including rejection, failure, loss of loved ones and loss of health, amongst others. The character they brought from these experiences to the unexpected challenges they faced during their presidencies ended up being the resource that made their leadership effective. It seems

The SIU Medicine Center for Human and Organizational Potential has announced that Mary Dobbins, MD, and Chris McDowell, MD, will become the new co-directors of the cHOP Leadership and Excellence Pillar. They will begin their work on March 1, 2022. The new co-directors’ goals for the cHOP Pillar for Leadership and Excellence are to: Provide opportunities for professional development, personal growth and collaborative partnerships for all of those employed by the School of Medicine Facilitate the individual’s ability to develop, influence and implement a spectrum of constructive professional

Innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs from across the SIU System are joining forces for an event that brings together research and enterprise on December 5 in Carbondale.

In spring 2022, two SIU medical students were given an early teaching opportunity that was hard to resist: the invitation to present research at a medical education conference in Lyon, France.

Medical students and residents have determined the recipients of the 2021 Department of Surgery Teaching Awards. Nick Tadros, MD, MCR, was named the "Outstanding Educator of the Year." Emily Serafin, MD, was the recipient of the "Community Faculty Teacher of the Year" award. Samuel Grampsas, MD, and Melanie Barnard, MD, received the "Faculty Teacher of the Year for Resident Teaching" awards. Norman Otsuka, MD, and Gordon Allan, MD, received the "Faculty Teacher of the Year for Medical Student Teaching" awards. Philipos Gebremedhin, MD, received the "Resident Teacher of the Year" award.

Learning from Teaching is a means of awarding AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to faculty members engaged in teaching, supervising, precepting, or evaluating medical students and residents. The AMA Council for Medical Education has approved the awarding of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for such activities. Both the AMA and ACCME have established definitions of Learning from Teaching as a means to acknowledge what most academic medical centers have known for a long time — faculty members learn from their hours of preparation for encounters with learners in UME and GME. Guidelines for Learning from