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Meet the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents

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Memory and Aging ECHO

NEW SESSIONS COMING SOON! The Memory and Aging ECHO is hosted by specialists from the Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment at SIU Medicine in Springfield, IL. The discussion will focus on key topics centering on memory and aging. Click here to register . Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a movement to demonstrate knowledge and amplify the capacity to provide best-practice care for underserved people all over the world through three tenets: Multipoint video conferencing Best practice protocol Cased-based learning

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Jacelyn Street

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Bilal Sawar

Family and Community Medicine

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Rheanna Grizzell

Family and Community Medicine

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Tori McNary

Graduate student

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Neurology

MDA: Neuromuscular Observational Research

Active recruiting

MOVR: Data Hub is the first and only data hub that aggregates clinical, genetic, and patient reported data for multiple nuromuscular diseases. Collection of patient data about disease progression in the era of new treatments will inform and accelerate future innovation. The combination of data collected through MOVR Data Hub will provide a comprehensive understanding of health and patient experiences in a single data repository. MOVR Data Hub has the power to transform health outcomes, accelerate drug development and drive clinical research across multiple neuromuscu

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Marah Elizabeth Willmore

Family and Community Medicine

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MD admissions

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Neurology

Caregiver Characteristics That May Predict When Patients With Alzheimer Disease Are Placed in Long Term Care Facilities

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This research will be conducted by the SIU Memory and Aging Network (MAN), which comprises 38 sites that evaluate and treat patients with dementia throughout non-metropolitan Illinois. AD patients and their caregivers who are living in private homes will be recruited. Primary outcome measures will be the ratings of the caregiver’s physical status (grip strength, walking speed, and score on the Timed Up-and-Go Test11 and the rating of the caregiver’s chronic medical illness burden using the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (Geriatric).12,13 The patient and caregiver dyad is required.