SIU Medicine welcomes 2nd year students from Carbondale and new faculty with a picnic lunch in the 801 Courtyard. Interest groups from across the campus and community will have tables to browse and info to share in the courtyard and Atrium. All school employees are invited. The lunch fare includes hot dogs, chips, veggies, soft drinks, cookies and slushies.

Dear Madam/Sir: The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, (“SIU”) is providing notice pursuant to 815 ILCS 530/25 in connection with an incident that may have involved the personal information of certain Illinois residents. This notice will be supplemented, if necessary, with any new significant facts discovered subsequent to its submission. While SIU is notifying you of this incident, SIU does not waive any rights or defenses relating to the incident or this notice. NATURE OF THE INCIDENT AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS TAKEN SIU recently discovered that an unknown, unauthorized third party

Matthew Johnson, MD , has spent the past decade as a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon in the Department of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat) at SIU Medicine. There, he has access to state-of-the-art equipment and a team of nurses, medical assistants and call center professionals, guiding a full surgical schedule. However, for extended periods during the past two years, Johnson has stepped away from his home, his practice and his familiar tools to seek out a different kind of operating room: one more modest, remote and deeply needed. He has volunteered with Operation of Hope and

A stroke can change a life in a matter of minutes. Recovery, however, unfolds over months and years and is shaped by many factors that people can influence, including what they eat. With new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) , SIU researcher Nafisa Jadavji, PhD , is taking a closer look at how nutrition may support brain health and recovery after stroke. The USDA award builds on years of work in Jadavji’s lab focused on vitamin B12 and other nutrients that play a role in how the brain responds to injury. Her research asks practical questions with real-world relevance

A stroke can change a life in a matter of minutes. Recovery, however, unfolds over months and years and is shaped by many factors that people can influence, including what they eat. With new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) , SIU researcher Nafisa Jadavji, PhD , is taking a closer look at how nutrition may support brain health and recovery after stroke. The USDA award builds on years of work in Jadavji’s lab focused on vitamin B12 and other nutrients that play a role in how the brain responds to injury. Her research asks practical questions with real-world relevance

Dr. Andrzej Bartke has become a poster child for his research focus “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.” - Woody Allen Andrzej Bartke, PhD, can appreciate Woody Allen’s joke on two levels. It’s no small feat to sustain a 50-year career in comedy — or in science and biomedical research. And for the past two decades Bartke has studied the biological mechanisms of aging. He well understands the human desire to postpone the inevitable. Within Bartke’s field of geriatric research, gains made in longevity can occur at the expense of