For adults over 60, the center’s three primary care physicians are all experienced geriatricians, specially trained to provide care for an aging population.

For more than 10 years, SIU medical students have organized and volunteered for a spring cleaning day in the Enos Park and Pillsbury Mills neighborhoods.

For more than 10 years, SIU medical students have organized and volunteered for a spring cleaning day in the Enos Park and Pillsbury Mills neighborhoods.

For more than 10 years, SIU medical students have organized and volunteered for a spring cleaning day in the Enos Park and Pillsbury Mills neighborhoods.

For more than 10 years, SIU medical students have organized and volunteered for a spring cleaning day in the Enos Park and Pillsbury Mills neighborhoods.

For more than 10 years, SIU medical students have organized and volunteered for a spring cleaning day in the Enos Park and Pillsbury Mills neighborhoods.

Establishing roots Community health worker Kaye Barnes sports a purple SIU Medicine T-shirt to complement her green thumb as she works in Springfield’s community gardens. A native of the city’s north side, she feels at home both tilling the soil or working in the trenches for her clients in the school of medicine’s Office of Community Care (OCC). Barnes is a diabetes lifestyle educator, a nationally certified nutrition coach and has a master’s degree in library science. In the summer of 2023, she created and launched Operation Taproot, a new program she hopes will grow and flourish across

Establishing roots Community health worker Kaye Barnes sports a purple SIU Medicine T-shirt to complement her green thumb as she works in Springfield’s community gardens. A native of the city’s north side, she feels at home both tilling the soil or working in the trenches for her clients in the school of medicine’s Office of Community Care (OCC). Barnes is a diabetes lifestyle educator, a nationally certified nutrition coach and has a master’s degree in library science. In the summer of 2023, she created and launched Operation Taproot, a new program she hopes will grow and flourish across

Establishing roots Community health worker Kaye Barnes sports a purple SIU Medicine T-shirt to complement her green thumb as she works in Springfield’s community gardens. A native of the city’s north side, she feels at home both tilling the soil or working in the trenches for her clients in the school of medicine’s Office of Community Care (OCC). Barnes is a diabetes lifestyle educator, a nationally certified nutrition coach and has a master’s degree in library science. In the summer of 2023, she created and launched Operation Taproot, a new program she hopes will grow and flourish across

I met Jennifer Hammonds, LCSW, when I was in high school in West Frankfort, Ill., through her work on SIU School of Medicine’s Care-A-Van – a school health clinic on wheels that serves high schools in rural southern Illinois, including my alma mater. This is an edited version of our conversation about funding battles, the pandemic’s effects on issues mental and material and the overlooked importance of high-quality adolescent health care. - Olivia Weeks What’s a Care-A-Van? About 16 years ago our Carbondale area residency program director for Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s