Grants to help Sangamon County divert people from jail

The Sangamon County Jail’s inmate population has exceeded its 285-beds capacity every year since 2002. For the past 16 years, the jail’s population has averaged 336, due in part to a significant

SIU in the News

8.27.19. News Channel 20 . Rebecca Howard, Center for Family Medicine – Springfield. SIU Medicine offers mobile health care to District 186 students. 9.3.19. WAND . Dr. Stephen Hazelrigg, Surgery

Shine a light, speak its name | National Suicide Awareness Day

Tuesday, Sept. 17, was the second annual National Suicide Awareness Day. At SIU Medicine, faculty, staff and learners took a moment of silence to remember, mourn, pay tribute to and send love to those

Simmons Cancer Institute to host ‘financial toxicity’ presentation on Thursday, Sept. 12

SPRINGFIELD, IL - Nausea, hair loss, fatigue, appetite loss, pain. This list of common cancer treatment side effects doesn’t include “financial toxicity,” but maybe it should, according to

Medical Students Training with Local Physicians (September)

SPRINGFIELD, IL - Family physicians in nine Illinois communities are hosting students from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine through September 27. The students are participating in the

Employee Communications Survey

Feel like you are always the last to know about something? Tired of seeing Food Fun and Outreach in your inbox? Want to have more News and Views with Dr. Kruse? Tell us what you really think – you

New articles in PubMed by SIU School of Medicine authors September 3, 2019

SIU School of Medicine authors published 39 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. Display the 39 citations in PubMed

Summer/Fall 2019 Aspects - Maternal Matters

The Summer/Fall edition of Aspects hit mailboxes at the end of August. In this issue, readers will find: News about Drs. John Flack and Chris McDowell's investitures Letters to the editor, including a

Research that resonates: Bauer & Brozoski retiring

Carol Bauer, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and Tom Brozoski, PhD, research professor in Otolaryngology, have retired from their respective