If you require data from TouchWorks for research-related efforts, SIU Information Technology can obtain this for you. To submit a request, please log into Laserfiche and complete the IT: Report Request form. You will need to specify Research as the SIU Mission. Once the TouchWorks list is created, it will be forwarded to CCR Statistics and Informatics Division. They will assure the required approvals are in place (IRB, data use, etc) for the project before distributing to the research team. If you have questions, please contact Michael Buhnerkempe 217-545-9605 or mbuhnerkempe66@siumed.edu .
As a father of six, Donald Torry, PhD, has some experience with pregnancy. Helping women who develop preeclampsia has become his life’s work. Preeclampsia is a pregnancy condition in which high blood pressure and protein in the urine develop after the 20th week (late second or third trimester). Preeclampsia develops in 5-10 percent of pregnancies and, aside from anti-hypertensives to try to control spiraling blood pressure, the only “cure” is delivery.
About Tracey Tracey Meares was the number one student in her class at Springfield High School in 1984. She was never officially given the title of valedictorian until decades later. She would have been the first black female valedictorian. Her representation as such may have encouraged other marginalized students to strive to be their best academically. Tracey went on to break barriers by becoming the first tenured black female law professor at the University of Chicago and Yale Law School as well as a foremost authority in her field. Her presence has been an inspiration to others to do the
