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Learn more about Child & Adolescent Psychiatry resident Dr. Sudhakar Shenoy, Class of 2019.

Auburn native Rachel Schmalsof received the J.S. Templeton, MD, Memorial Scholarship. Schmalsof is the daughter of Karen Schmidt of Auburn and the late Brent Schmalshof. She is a 2011 graduate of

written by Karen Carlson | photographed by Jason Johnson “It’s not about health care. It’s about the health of the population. That’s the most important thing.” So said John Whittington, MD, senior

A new process to identify certain microbes in women could be used to diagnose endometriosis without invasive surgery, possibly even before symptoms start. Our body’s microbes collectively create what

SIU Medicine and its programs hit the marks Written by Karen Carlson | Photographed by Jason Johnson Dean and Provost Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH, closes nearly every presentation with a particular slide

David Jeong, MD, has achieved an impressive goal this month: He’s made it to the Olympics. The director of sports medicine and geriatric musculoskeletal medicine at SIU Center for Family and Community

A new collaboration between the Lincoln Land Community College Culinary Institute and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine aims to blend the art of food and cooking with the science of

Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities, argues author and lawyer Dayna Bowen Matthew. She will address questions of race, inequality and health

Sickle cell disease is painful, leads to a high incidence of stroke and carries with it a much shorter life expectancy than the average person living in the developed world. Andrew Wilber, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology at SIU School of Medicine, and his team are working to change that.