San Diego – Susan Thompson Hingle, MD, FACP, has been named Chair of ACP’s Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of Internal Medicine specialists. Her term began during Internal Medicine Meeting 2017, ACP’s annual scientific meeting held in San Diego from March 30-April 1. A resident of Springfield, Ill., Dr. Hingle is Professor of Medicine and an Internal Medicine specialist at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Most recently, she served on ACP’s Board of Regents and previously served as Chair of the ACP’s Board of Governors

The SIU Department of Family and Community medicine has residencies in Carbondale, Springfield, and Quincy, which have achieved ACGME Osteopathic Recognition status since July 2017. Although run separately these three programs collaborate to participate in a shared monthly osteopathic journal club through a video conferencing platform. Additionally they convene for annual osteopathic manipulative treatment workshops sponsored through the A.T. Still University Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institute.

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine was founded in 1970 with four areas of excellence: medical education, patient care, research and community service. Caring for the communities of central and southern Illinois is SIU Medicine’s mission, and the School of Medicine aims to improve the health of residents across its 66 county service region. In 2016, SIU Medicine launched the Office of Population Science and Policy (PSP) to advance its social mission and find innovative solutions to improve health beyond the confines of the hospital and clinical walls. Led by a group of pioneering

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

TRAINING A ROBOTIC SURGERY GENERATION Aspects Volume 39 No.1 Written by Lauren Murphy • Photography by Jason Johnson It looks like something out of a science fiction film: a three-armed, six-foot tall, 1,400 pound robot with three-dimensional vision, forceps, needle drivers and cautery instruments that act as hands. Capable of performing delicate, extraordinarily precise procedures deep within the body using miniature instruments and 10 times magnification, the da Vinci ® Surgical System is the next generation of minimally invasive surgery. The robotic surgery platform is where imagination

Written by Lauren Murphy | Photography by Jason Johnson Published in Aspects Magazine, Spring 2016 | Vol. 39 No. 2 Fifty-one-year-old Roy Bellamy was in and out of the emergency department more than 89 times in 2014, amassing upward of $330,000 in hospital charges. His costly pattern led him to Tracey Smith, DNP, and the team of hotspotters, a multidisciplinary group dedicated to identifying and helping hospital super-utilizers like Bellamy. Photo Caption: Dr. Tracey Smith visits Roy Bellamy while he’s not feeling well. In central Illinois, it’s a problem Dr. Smith, community workers and other

Written by Lauren Murphy | Photography by Jason Johnson Published in Aspects Magazine, Spring 2016 | Vol. 39 No. 2 Fifty-one-year-old Roy Bellamy was in and out of the emergency department more than 89 times in 2014, amassing upward of $330,000 in hospital charges. His costly pattern led him to Tracey Smith, DNP, and the team of hotspotters, a multidisciplinary group dedicated to identifying and helping hospital super-utilizers like Bellamy. Photo Caption: Dr. Tracey Smith visits Roy Bellamy while he’s not feeling well. In central Illinois, it’s a problem Dr. Smith, community workers and other

Peanut butter and bananas aren’t the usual therapy tools for patients with cochlear implants. But for 4-year-old David Heady, they whet his appetite to listen. . . and speak. Aspects Volume 39 No. 3 Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson Caroline Montgomery holds up two bananas and David’s face lights up with a wide smile. He clearly likes bananas. "Do you like to eat bananas plain or with peanut butter?" asks Montgomery. While most children David’s age would respond with a quick shout, "peanut butter!" David politely articulates, "I like to eat bananas with peanut butter."

Peanut butter and bananas aren’t the usual therapy tools for patients with cochlear implants. But for 4-year-old David Heady, they whet his appetite to listen. . . and speak. Aspects Volume 39 No. 3 Written by Rebecca Budde • Photography by Jason Johnson Caroline Montgomery holds up two bananas and David’s face lights up with a wide smile. He clearly likes bananas. "Do you like to eat bananas plain or with peanut butter?" asks Montgomery. While most children David’s age would respond with a quick shout, "peanut butter!" David politely articulates, "I like to eat bananas with peanut butter."