Jan Rakinic, MD, FACS , SIU School of Medicine Professor of Surgery, has been named the president-elect for the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery (ABCRS.) “To earn this recognition from a number of my peers, whom I have a lot of respect for, is really humbling,” says Rakinic, who joined SIU in 2001. She is the chief of the Section of Colorectal Surgery at SIU School of Medicine. Rakinic is the second woman to be elected as president of the ABCRS. “It was and still is a male-dominated field, and it's still not very easy,” Rakinic says of the surgical field. “Only nine percent of full