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Leadership /Administration

Department of Family and Community Medicine Department Office Janet R. Albers, MD Professor, Chair James Daniels, MD, MPH Professor, Vice Chair Director of Research and Scholarly Activity Lauri Lopp, MD Associate Professor Director of Health Information Technology Tracey Smith, DNP, APRN, BSN Assistant Professor Director of Population & Community Health Integration Mary Dobbins, MD Associate Professor Director of Integrated Behavioral and Social Services Student Education Medical Student Education/Clerkship Christopher L. Gleason, MD Associate Professor Director of Medical Student Education
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Leadership /Administration

Department of Family and Community Medicine Department Office Janet R. Albers, MD Professor, Chair James Daniels, MD, MPH Professor, Vice Chair Director of Research and Scholarly Activity Lauri Lopp, MD Associate Professor Director of Health Information Technology Tracey Smith, DNP, APRN, BSN Assistant Professor Director of Population & Community Health Integration Mary Dobbins, MD Associate Professor Director of Integrated Behavioral and Social Services Student Education Medical Student Education/Clerkship Christopher L. Gleason, MD Associate Professor Director of Medical Student Education
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Keep Calm and Drink Wine

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 Written by Karen Carlson• Photography by James Hawker Dr. Angela Holbrook ’89, blends two careers: emergency medicine physician and entrepreneur in the heart of Southern Illinois Angela Holbrook, MD, Class of 1989, cradles four bottles of wine that she carefully delivers to a group of eight visitors to the Hidden Lake Winery Oktoberfest. She rushes from table to table, greeting friends and welcoming visitors. She gives duties to her staff like her cousin’s son, Travis. With no makeup, dressed in an orange t-shirt and jeans, Dr. Holbrook looks like a worker herself, not
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Keep Calm and Drink Wine

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 Written by Karen Carlson• Photography by James Hawker Dr. Angela Holbrook ’89, blends two careers: emergency medicine physician and entrepreneur in the heart of Southern Illinois Angela Holbrook, MD, Class of 1989, cradles four bottles of wine that she carefully delivers to a group of eight visitors to the Hidden Lake Winery Oktoberfest. She rushes from table to table, greeting friends and welcoming visitors. She gives duties to her staff like her cousin’s son, Travis. With no makeup, dressed in an orange t-shirt and jeans, Dr. Holbrook looks like a worker herself, not
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Limbs Back to Life

SIU vascular surgery helps patients overcome pain and disability with thoracic outlet decompression surgery Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson Aspects Winter 2015, Vol 38-1. Annalese Corwin, 24, waited a year to be able pick up her five-year-old son, Carter, and give him the hugs he longed for or even push him on the swings at the park. "He was always asking me to take him to the park and push him on the swings, but I just couldn’t do it," she says. The pain in Corwin’s left shoulder, her dominant side, was so deep and the numbness in her arm was so unpredictable that
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Social Media: Friend or Foe?

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 While medications can help heal, too much can cause harm and lead to a path of destruction. The same applies to social network site users: too much with the wrong motivations for use can also have damaging results. But some SIU School of Medicine psychologists and counselors feel that social network sites (SNS), when used with the right motivation, could also provide benefits to a subset of patients with mental issues. "The studies regarding the benefits and disadvantages of social media are conflicting because there are so many variables," says Dana Ingram, LCSW
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Social Media: Friend or Foe?

Aspects Volume 38 No. 1 While medications can help heal, too much can cause harm and lead to a path of destruction. The same applies to social network site users: too much with the wrong motivations for use can also have damaging results. But some SIU School of Medicine psychologists and counselors feel that social network sites (SNS), when used with the right motivation, could also provide benefits to a subset of patients with mental issues. "The studies regarding the benefits and disadvantages of social media are conflicting because there are so many variables," says Dana Ingram, LCSW
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Resources

Illinois Department of Children & Family Services Prevent Child Abuse Illinois Prevent Child Abuse America National Child Abuse Hotline The Women's Center Southern Illinois University School of Medicine To Report Suspected Abuse Please call 1-800-25-ABUSE or 1-800-252-2873.
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Medical Maltreatment providers

Anna, IL Swafford, Kathy M.D. Two Rivers Child Advocacy Center 109 Denny Industrial Drive Anna, IL 62906 Bus: 618.833.6488 Fax: 618.833.1599 Eldorado, IL Carlile, Casey F.N.P. Egyptian Health Department 1412 U.S. Highway 45 North Eldorado, IL 62930 Bus: 618.273.3326 ext. 2227 Centerville, IL Summers, Bonnie P.N.P. Mother Child Center 6000 Bond Avenue Centreville, IL 62207 Bus: 618.332.2740 Fax: 618.332.8755 Lawrenceville, IL Winters, Rachel M.D. 2111 Lexington Avenue Lawrenceville, IL 62439 Bus: 618.943.6202 Fax: 888.840.5393 Effingham, IL Bingham, Colleen M.D. P.O. Box 665 Effingham, IL 62401
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