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Video Name/Description Length Surgery Procedures Basic Techniques of Wound Closure 36:14 Concepts of Scrubbing, Gowning and Gloving 25:38 Online MedEd Surgery: General - Preop Evaluation 10:53 Surgery: General - Postop Fever 10:23 Surgery: General - Other Postop Issues 22:43 Surgery: General - Obstructive Jaundice 12:24 Surgery: General - Esophagus 14:23 Surgery: General - Small Bowel 13:09 Surgery: General - Pancreas 07:13 Surgery: General - Gallbladder 20:16 Surgery: General - Colorectal 16:44 Surgery: General - Abdominal Pain 15:30 Surgery: General - Leg Ulcers 13:00 Surgery: General -

Cheryl is a senior health policy executive with a distinguished consulting and public service career in public health, population health, health financing and system reform. She has recently joined Mitre as a Portfolio Director - Health within the Department of Health and Human Services. She spent nine years at NORC at the University of Chicago where she was a Senior Fellow in the Public Health Department. She is a results-oriented, decisive leader with a record of high performance; exceptional management, business development, strategic planning, program implementation and leadership skills

May 8, 2020 Beginning May 11, the Governor’s “Restore Illinois” plan allows elective procedures and surgeries to once again be performed. SIU Medicine providers will be performing procedures and surgeries at a variety of hospitals. Each hospital has slightly different restrictions, processes and prioritization criteria. Patients will be tested for COVID-19 prior to surgery to ensure the safety of the patient and the medical team. Each hospital will work with you to coordinate the required testing prior to your surgery or procedure. Emergent surgeries will be done without testing as we are

Epilepsy Center diagnoses and treats patients with severe epilepsy with a team approach -- and a furry friend.

Linda Reneé Baker joined the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute on March 18, 2003, after stepping down as the secretary of Illinois Department of Human Services, a post she held for three years. Her focus at the institute is to expand access to high-quality health care in partnership with the SIU School of Medicine and helping minorities and people with disabilities realize their full potential. She also teaches a course on leadership for SIU Carbondale. During her career in public service, Baker held increasingly responsible positions in a variety of state agencies. As secretary of the

Madhu Viswanathan is the Diane and Steven N. Miller Professor in Business at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he has been on the faculty since 1990. He earned a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1985), and a PhD in Marketing (University of Minnesota, 1990). His research programs are in two areas; measurement and research methodology, and literacy, poverty, and subsistence marketplace behaviors. He founded and directs the Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative and has pioneered the area of enquiry and practice entitled subsistence

The Medical Library hosted a circus themed study break for students on March 2. In addition to guzzling coffee, students enjoyed hotdogs, peanuts, cupcakes decorated like popcorn, and other circus-themed snacks. A meeage on a dry-erase board asked students and staff what job they would most enjoy if they worked in a circus: the most common answer was trapeze artist.

Mike Lawrence retired Nov. 1, 2008, as director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. He joined the institute as associate director in 1997 and became director after the death of Paul Simon in December 2003. In addition to serving as director, he taught classes in both the political science and journalism departments. Prior to joining SIU, Lawrence was press secretary and senior policy adviser to Governor Jim Edgar for nearly a decade. He joined Edgar's staff after working as a journalist for 25 years. During his newspaper career, he specialized in Illinois

Patrick Gallagher is the Senior Vice President, Health Policy and Finance at the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. Patrick’s department is responsible for assisting members with a wide range of hospital payment and regulatory issues including Medicare and Medicaid payment, health insurance regulations, hospital charity care and tax exemption issues and state and federal regulatory related challenges. Patrick coordinates IHA efforts to assist members to prepare and participate in value based health care delivery and payment programs. He is also directly involved in the review and

The Research Communique is a quarterly electronic newsletter put together on behalf of the Associate Dean for Research Office. The newsletter focuses on research, news and events from the research offices and research core at the SIU School of Medicine. The newsletter comes out in February, May, August and November each year. Articles can be submitted to Kerri Taylor at ktaylor37@siumed.edu by the 10th of each release month (Feb., May, Aug., & Nov.). Click here to read the most recent Research Communique.

Congratulations! You will be able to waive some requirements for your 4th year elective schedule. You will need to take required Doctoring courses, meet the usual "on campus" week requirement and meet a total of 30 weeks of electives required to graduate. You may waive the core requirement, ICE, and Basic Science components. Please take the time to help us understand your thoughts about your 4th year. Even if you choose not to drop the 4th year requirements, this information is helpful to us in order to plan further enhancements to Year 4. Some of you may have already met with your advisors

"Go forth and matter." That was the final charge of Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, immediate past president of the American Public Health Association, to the SIU School of Medicine graduating class of 2017. As part of her directive, she gave them three tools with which to carry it out: the three C's. Be courageous — "Be unafraid of controversy and embrace challenge." Be curious — "I want you to become interested in and curious about the stories of others. I want you to believe the stories of others, and I want you to join into the stories of others." Be citizens — "Stay woke. Be vigilant

Decatur School Students to Benefit from 'Healthy Communities' Grant (SIU Medicine) SIU School of Medicine Helping Improve Students’ Health (ladyclick.info) SIU School of Medicine Helping Improve Students' Health - (WAND Video) Grant Part of a Planning Project to Improve Health and Wellness of DPS 61 Students - (Now Decatur)

The first time Jennifer Deiss ever took a Tylenol with codeine, also known as Tylenol 3, it was in 1983 when she was in her late twenties. Suffering from complications following surgery, doctors determined the now 62-year-old had arthritis that had been aggravated by bed rest. Her family doctor prescribed Tylenol 3 and a muscle relaxer. Today, with current CDC guidelines, that prescription would have an end date two to three weeks following surgery, no more. For Jennifer, that end date wouldn’t arrive for 34 years. The Fifth Vital Sign While there is no easy answer, one of the clear symptoms

Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities, argues author and lawyer Dayna Bowen Matthew. She will address questions of race, inequality and health care at the 2nd Annual Alonzo Homer Kenniebrew, MD, Presentation on Health Inequities and Disparities. The address is part of an annual discussion of health disparities and other factors that impact population health, and the concluding event of Black History Month activities at SIU School of Medicine. The event begins with light refreshments at 5:30 pm, Tuesday, February 27, in the Memorial Center

Event to raise awareness for breast reconstruction

Program Begins Nov 1.

Federal grant to fund SIU Medicine-SSM Good Samaritan partnership

Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU Medicine and Susan G. Komen Memorial will host an evening with Judy Kneece, nurse and author of “Sexuality After Cancer Treatment, the Guide to Restoring Your Sex Life,” at 6 pm, Tuesday, Oct. 2, at Simmons Cancer Institute (SCI), 315 W. Carpenter St., Springfield. SCI, with funding provided by the Memorial Affiliate of Susan G. Komen, is sponsoring the free event. Please call 217-545-7493 to register for the program. Light refreshments will be served. In Kneece’s latest book, readers learn about chemotherapy and other cancer drugs’ effect on sexuality and

When a domestic violence matter becomes news, one question is always shouted the loudest: why didn’t she leave? And with that question comes the implication that, by staying in the relationship, the survivor somehow deserved what happened. As the second part in our two-part series examining why survivors of assault don’t report, we’re looking at domestic violence. Why don’t victims leave, and why don’t they call the police?

When a house is robbed, rarely is the question posed of “Why was the house decorated that way if it didn’t want burglarized?” When a car is broken into, no one says “Well it should have been covered up.” But when someone is sexually harassed, assaulted or raped, those are always the first words uttered. Survivors or sexual assault face not only unimaginable trauma, but judgment after the fact. Many survivors don’t report attacks to avoid this or because of the societally prevalent idea that no one would believe them anyway. In the first of two blogs examining why victims don’t report attacks, we’re looking at sexual assault. We spoke to Jeanné Hansen, licensed clinical social worker with the SIU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, about why these crimes go so heavily unreported.

Simmons Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is hosting its 15th annual “Denim & Diamonds” fundraiser Saturday, October 3. The funds raised will support innovative research projects and enhance patient comforts. More than 90 percent of the funds raised at the event stay local. Guests at Denim & Diamonds are encouraged to dress in their finest denim or formal attire for the event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 3000 S. Dirksen Parkway, Springfield. This year’s theme is “It’s a Wonderful Night for a Moondance.” Tickets are $125 per person

Dr. Janet Albers, '87, receives Distinguished Alumni Award

International Scholar, Syrian Native to Present Pearson Lecture August 4, 2017 Abdul Nasser Kaadan, MD, PhD, will present “The History of Islamic Medicine” during Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s annual Pearson Lecture. The free, public presentation will be held at 5 pm, Wednesday, August 23, in the South Auditorium, 801 N. Rutledge St. in Springfield A native of Syria, Kaadan, an orthopedic surgeon, is a visiting international professor of history at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He is the founder and president of the International Society for the History of Islamic

Match Results #match2019 3/15/2019 Internal Medicine Program First Name Last Name Medical School of Graduation Sabree Aberabo Saint James School of Medicine Anguilla Laila Ali University College Dublin School of Medicine Cullen Hoos St. George's University School of Medicine Noor Khalid Allama Iqbal Medical College Huma Khan Dow International Medical College (DIMC) Triton Krizenesky St. Matthew's University School of Medicine (Grand Cayman) Morton Machir University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Noupama Mirihagalle University of Kelaniya Faculty of Medicine Karthik

by Richard Austin, MD "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane….” On November 7, 2018, the NRA, in response to a position paper from the American College of Physicians, tweeted that doctors should stay in their lane when it comes to gun violence research. This tweet led to a massive response from not just physicians, but health care workers of all types as well as the general public. The majority felt that gun violence research was firmly in the lane of physicians. The fact is that gun violence is responsible for 36,000 deaths every year. Unfortunately, this

Aug. 26, 2015 - Southern Illinois University School of Medicine researcher Kathleen Campbell, PhD, professor in the Department of Surgery, has secured a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance her decades of research in hearing loss prevention and treatment. The total budget for the project is $2.8 million. This grant will determine the optimal dosing level of D-methionine (D-met), a compound that has been shown to prevent hearing loss. D-met is an amino acid that has been found to protect against noise-induced hearing loss and ototoxicity, or damage to the ear