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2nd Thursday of each month - 12 p.m. -1 p.m. September 2024 - June 2025 SIU Asthma ECHO aims to improve asthma management for patients by providing healthcare providers, administrators, and executives insights on reducing hospital admissions and readmissions for Asthma and creating a network of providers in the region working together to improve care for patients with Asthma. Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a movement to demonopolize knowledge and amplify the capacity to provide best-practice care for underserved people all over the world through three tenets

KEY TERMS nystagmus: An involuntary rhythmic oscillation of the eyes. internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO): With attempted gaze to one side, failure of the adducting eye to move beyond the midline, with nystagmus developing in the abducting eye. INO is due to a lesion affecting the medial longitudinal fasciculus on the same side as the adducting eye. optic disk: The area of the retina entered by the optic nerve. Marcus Gunn pupil: A pupil that may react to light but does not hold the reaction, or, paradoxically, may dilate slowly; the consensual reflex may be more prompt than the direct reflex

The newly renovated atrium in the medical school’s 825 N. Rutledge building offers a welcoming area for students, faculty and staff to meet and interact. SIU alumni Drs. Kathy Bohn, ‘83, and Tom Nielsen, ‘81, made a generous gift to the medical school to refresh the space.

SIU Medicine audiologist Jennifer L. Berry, AuD, CCC-A, took the title "Best Audiologist" in the Illinois Times' 2018 Best of Springfield awards. Hundreds of readers took to the internet to cast their votes for their favorite restaurants, health care providers, dry cleaners and more in the annual contest. Berry specializes in treating hearing loss and tinnitus and provides cochlear implant services, hearing screenings and hearing aid services. She joined SIU Medicine's Department of Surgery after spending several years researching hearing loss and tinnitus. Berry sees patients at the Ear Nose

SIU scientists use teamwork, experience, creativity to improve hearing Written by Steve Sandstrom • Photography by Jason Johnson Aspects Magazine, 39-3 Summer 2016 Hearing loss is the third most common health problem in the U.S and more than 25 million citizens between the ages of 20 and 69 have high frequency hearing loss due to exposure to noise, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition, roughly 50 million people in the U.S. experience chronic tinnitus ─ a persistent ringing in the ears. SIU School of Medicine has a reputation for its world-class hearing research

Audrey Soglin is the Executive Director of the Illinois Education Association (IEA). She taught in Evanston, Illinois for 25 years. Ms. Soglin started her career teaching self contained special education students and after eight years, moved to regular education where she taught kindergarten, first, second, fourth and fifth grades. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Illinois Education Association, Audrey was the Director of the Center for Education Innovation for IEA and the Executive Director of the Consortium for Educational Change. As Executive Director of the IEA, Ms. Soglin

The employee of the month for August is Lori Miedwig , Senior Clinical Research Coordinator in the Center for Clinical Research. Her nominator said: “Lori is a very experienced senior coordinator who manages the Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Research Teams. She communicates very well and is a great representative of the Center for Clinical Research. She takes her job seriously and can be counted on to assist with anything that needs to be done. She is a great resource for industry-sponsored study issues and has stepped up to analyze the industry-sponsored billings and budgets to make sure