The Office of Population Science and Policy, Executive Director, Sameer Vohra, MD, JD, MA, FAAP quoted in Illinois Times recent article What's Behind Bad Behavior? Thursday, October 12, 2017.

A thank you to teachers from the Office of Population Science and Policy's Executive Director, Dr. Sameer Vohra here ! - October 04, 2017

The Department of Population Science and Policy strives to protect the most vulnerable of our populations by participating in programs and projects that focus on early childhood development and health. There are both in school and out of school factors that change the way that young students learn and their ability to focus. Some of these things include sleep, stress, housing, and asthma. Our projects include: A program focused on household trigger reduction strategies for low-income families by using community health worker home visits aimed at reducing the emergency department visits of

Simmons Cancer Institute (SCI) at Southern Illinois University Medicine will host the 17th annual Denim & Diamonds fundraiser Saturday, October 14, at the Crowne Plaza Springfield. The event features live and silent auctions with many one-of-kind items, raffles, live entertainment and dinner. “Funds raised at the event are used for cancer research through our Team Science Grants,” said Aziz Khan, MD, executive director of SCI. Khan is also the chief of hematology and oncology and a practicing oncologist at SCI. “Team Science Grants provide the initial dollars to gather the evidence and data

Simmons Cancer Institute (SCI) at Southern Illinois University Medicine will host the 17th annual Denim & Diamonds fundraiser Saturday, October 14, at the Crowne Plaza Springfield. The event features live and silent auctions with many one-of-kind items, raffles, live entertainment and dinner. “Funds raised at the event are used for cancer research through our Team Science Grants,” said Aziz Khan, MD, executive director of SCI. Khan is also the chief of hematology and oncology and a practicing oncologist at SCI. “Team Science Grants provide the initial dollars to gather the evidence and data

SIU School of Medicine authors published 39 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. See the list at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/carol.gordon.1/collections/53… .

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Note: These sources found through search going back to 2010. Abbreviations noted at end. KEYWORDS SOURCE TITLE CITATION DESCRIPTION URL CDC Guideline CDC “CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain” Haegerich & Dowell (6/22/16) PowerPoint presentation on CDC Guidelines www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/coca-webinar-series-allslides-a.pdf CDC Prescribing Guideline CDC CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Unintentional Injury (March 2017) Guidelines for prescribing with links to other resources including JAMA

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Check out this recent article featuring our very own Dr. Wiley Jenkins discussing the Moy Grant here !