The Operations Division will: • Facilitate, foster, cutting-edge, and support the conduct of high-quality clinical research • Increase studies that provide patients with access to, research opportunities • Serve as a shared resource to investigators and research coordinators. Services include: • Research nurse/coordinator support for study start-up, follow-up, and closeout • Screen and identify eligible patients • Contract and budgeting • IRB preparation, submission, and continuing review • Educational opportunities

The Center for Clinical Research was established to increase clinical and translational research infrastructure, capacity and productivity. A centralized administrative infrastructure is an efficient and responsive means to provide clinical research support, and in turn: Provides shared services that are difficult to establish and maintain by individual investigators Creates a central point of contact for investigators Improves compliance and quality Produces economy of effort Saves overall costs The central concept of the CCR is to support faculty and their research teams using a flexible

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2024 Graduates: Emil Abraham, MD - Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship, University of Miami, Miami, FL Ahmed Sundos, MD - Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Anyka Clouden-James, MD - Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH Saskia D'Sa, MD - Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL Laila Mahmoud, MD - Primary Care Practice, SIU School of Medicine, Decatur, IL Daphne Mlachila, MD - Primary Care Practice, Sterling Primary Care at Colquitt Regional Medical Center, Moultrie, GA Harsh

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On April 30, 2006, after 31 years of service, Professor Theodore LeBlang retired from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. During that time, Professor LeBlang was the mainstay of the Law and Medicine teaching program for every class of students who have graduated from the school since its inception in 1975. In honor of his retirement, the SIU School of Medicine has established the Theodore R. LeBlang Distinguished Lectureship in Law and Medicine . This lectureship will carry forward Professor LeBlang's legacy of creative, timely, and accessible education highlighting important