campus news
10-year agreement signed with HSHS
Hospital Sisters Health System and
SIU School of Medicine signed a comprehensive 10-year alliance to expand
access to pediatric and women’s health
care services. It also solidifies the two
organizations’ joint commitment to the
region for teaching and research and
calls for an investment in health care
infrastructure on the St. John’s campus.
“For more than four decades, St.
John’s and SIU School of Medicine
have worked together to increase access
to care and advance medical research
across downstate Illinois. This latest
alliance distinguishes our organizations
as leaders in the delivery of highquality health care for women, infants
and children in Sangamon County
and the surrounding communities,”
said Charles L. Lucore, MD, MBA,
President and CEO, HSHS St. John’s
Hospital.
The alliance includes a 10-year
commitment from St. John’s Hospital
to support SIU School of Medicine’s
obstetrics and gynecology and Pediatrics Departments. Funding from the
hospital supports medical education at
SIU and St. John’s Hospital by sustaining the high quality of residency
programs in pediatrics, OB-GYN and
patient-care programs in these subspecialties for the community.
“We share a common goal of better
health and better health care for our
patients and a focus on care coor-
dination, quality improvement and
patient safety. Through this agreement,
specialists who are highly-skilled in
pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecological
services will provide care to patients
at St. John’s Children’s Hospital and
Women’s Services Center while they
are training the next generation of physicians for the region,” said Dr. Jerry
Kruse, CEO of SIU HealthCare and
executive associate dean.
Planned projects include a new medical office building for instruction of
medical providers and clinical services
for women and children on the St.
John’s Hospital Campus and renovations to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Grant expands FQHC
to Quincy Family Med
SIU Quincy Family Medicine has joined the SIU School
of Medicine Federally Qualified Health Center, thanks
to a $650,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
SIU School of Medicine was one of only four institutions awarded grants in Illinois and 164 awarded
nationwide.
The New Access Point (NAP) Funding aims to fund
programs to increase access to quality primary care
services for underserved and vulnerable populations.
Quincy Family Medicine also has been re-recognized
as a Patient Centered Medical Home by the National
Committee for Quality Assurance. In the PCMH model,
clinician-led teams enhance access and oversee continuity of care, especially for prevention and chronic
conditions.
The SIU Center for Family Medicine in Springfield has
been an FQHC since 2012. In November, it received
a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Health Resources and
Services administration to integrate behavioral health
into the patient-care visit.
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Dr. Bradley
Dr. Junker
Dr. Scott
Decatur Family Medicine
appoints new directors
Jessie Junker, MD, MBA,
will serve as residency director and assistant medical
director of SIU Decatur Family Medicine, and Mark Scott,
MD, is director/chief medical
officer.
The physicians succeed
John Bradley, MD, who
retired after 24 years of
service. Dr. Bradley has been
a professor and physician
at SIU School of Medicine
and director of the Decatur
residency program since 1991.
Most recently, he served as
interim chair of SIU’s Depart-
ment of Family and Community Medicine (2013-14) and
as acting interim CEO of SIU
HealthCare (2009 -11).
“Decatur will continue to
be well-served by Dr. Scott
and Dr. Junker. They know
the patients, residents and
staff and have deep roots in
the community,” Dr. Bradley
said. “They are fine teachers
and family physicians who
will enhance the mission of
the school and its residency
education.”
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Internal medicine chair joins SIU
John M. Flack, MD,
MPH, has been named
professor and chair of the
Department of Internal
Medicine. He also is a
member of SIU HealthCare.
He succeeds Dr. Susan
Hingle, who has been
interim chair since 2013.
Former chair Dr. David Steward was named
Associate Dean for Community Health and
Service in 2013.
Dr. Flack is a renowned hypertension
specialist and will see patients with complex
hypertension and related conditions in a newly
formed hypertension clinic.
He holds an advanced degree in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota School
of Public Health. He has held numerous
positions at Wayne State University School of
Medicine in Detroit, most recently as professor
of medicine and physiology. He was chair of
Wayne State’s internal medicine department for
eight years.
Among his many honors, Dr. Flack has been
named a “Top Doctor” from the Who’s Who
Global Directory, was named one of Detroit’s
“Super Doctors” and was awarded Academic
Physician of the Year by Oklahoma University
School of Medicine. In 2009 the Detroit News
named him Michiganian of the Year.
Jarrod Wall receives
national teaching award
Jarrod Wall, MB, BCh, PhD,
assistant professor of general surgery
and a trauma surgeon at SIU School
of Medicine, received the Philip J.
Wolfson Outstanding Teacher Award
from the Association of Surgical Education. The award is given annually to
individuals who are actively involved
in surgical education and who are
considered by their chair, peers, residents and students to be outstanding
teachers.
Dr. Wall became the Department
of Surgery Clerkship Director in
2010. He is responsible for overseeing the surgical experience of the
third-year medical students as they
rotate through general surgery and its
subspecialties of colorectal, trauma
and critical care, transplant surgery, surgical
oncology and cardiovascular surgery. He also
oversees the surgical specialties of neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology,
plastic surgery and urology. He was named a
State Faculty Member for Advanced Trauma
Life Support (ATLS) and is a course director
for both the adult and pediatric Fundamental
Critical Care Support courses.
Dr. Wall has received teaching awards for
excellence in both medical student and resident
teaching during each of his six years as an SIU
faculty member.
In 2014, he was chosen by the graduating
class to receive the School of Medicine Golden
Apple Award and the Leonard Tow Humanism
in Medicine Award, making him the first member of the faculty to receive both awards in the
same academic year.
MMC Foundation
grants support
research
Nine grants from the
Memorial Medical Center
Foundation will support
research projects. Grant
recipients include:
Surgery - Urology:
$68,720 to conduct a pilot
study of male patients with
lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) scheduled for
bariatric surgery; $34,534 to
develop an online training
program using gaming
methodology to practice
clinical decision-making
and task triage in trauma
situations.
Surgery - Otolaryngology: $52,163 to
provide listening and spoken language teletherapy
services to children who are
deaf or hard of hearing and
their families.
Plastic Surgery:
$46,161 to assess longterm outcomes and identify
factors that determine effectiveness of botulin
to treat symptoms of
Raynaud’s disease; $19,894
to buy a camera, coupler
and software.
Internal Medicine/
Infectious Diseases:
$49,901 to study the molecular epidemiology of a
drug-resistant infection.
Pediatrics - Infectious Disease: $28,476
to conduct a pilot study of
50 pediatric patients with
Staphylococcus aureus
abscesses.
Medical Education:
$13,444 to investigate
physician-patient communication skills and improve
training and assessment.
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Medical society welcomes new members
The Eta Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor
Medical Society at Southern Illinois University School of
Medicine inducted 14 new members at its spring banquet.
Newly inducted members from the Class of 2016 include:
Cindy Gregory, Travis Healey and Paige Tsuda.
They joined seven students from the Class of 2015 who
were nominated to AOA in the fall of 2014: Kathryn Filson,
MD; Whitney Marlow, MD; Jennifer Marshalla, MD; Rustin
Meister, MD; Emily Perkins, MD; Craig Wilson, MD; and
James Winters, MD. Two residents from SIU School of Medicine’s training programs were also selected: Bashar Amr,
MD, a third-year internal medicine resident from Amman,
Jordan, and Chad Gonczy, MD, a fifth-year surgery resident
from Maple Grove, Minn.
Associate Professor and Chair of SIU’s Division of Emergency Medicine David Griffen, MD, PhD, was also inducted
into AOA as an honorary faculty member. SIU School of
Medicine alumnus William Gene Gossman, MD, Class of
1992, was also inducted. Dr. Gossman works as an emergency medicine specialist in Omaha, Neb.
The only national honor medical society in the world,
AOA recognizes and works to perpetuate excellence in the
medical professions. Election to AOA is based on integrity,
leadership, compassion, fairness and scholastic excellence.
aspects wins
double honors
The School of Medicine’s quarterly, aspects, received two APEX
Awards for Publication Excellence
hosted by Communication Concepts. The autumn issue, Vol. 37-4
(Healthy Aging) won the award for
print magazine, journals & tabloids.
The article “A Good, Deep Breath,”
written by
Rebecca Budde,
won the award
for health and
medical writing.
http://bit.ly/gooddeepbreath
SCOPE “progress” edition released
The SIU community celebrated the
22nd annual edition of SCOPE, SIU’s
literary magazine, at a luncheon on
April 22 in the Pearson Museum. It
contains 34 short stories, poems and
artwork submitted by students, faculty,
staff, alumni and friends of the School.
The top three entries in the categories of poetry, prose and visual art
received prizes. In addition, two artists
received awards as part of an exhibit
of SCOPE visual art at the School.
The People’s Choice Award went to
Lacey Wood, MSIII, for an untitled
painting, and the Dean’s Choice Award
Joe Clemons, MSIII, holds Lacey Wood’s, untitled
was given to Kelly Armstrong, PhD,
piece at the unveiling of the 2015 edition of SCOPE.
assistant professor of medical humani- Wood, a fourth-year medical student, was the winties, for her photograph “Reflections of ner of the People’s Choice Award.
Peaceful Coexistence.”
Submissions for the 2016 edition will be accepted October - January. All editions of SCOPE are available online at siumed.edu/scope.
http://bit.ly/37-4aging
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AWARDS & HONORS
Sabha Ganai, MD, PhD, assistant
professor of
surgery, received
the 2015 Health
Care Disparities
Research Award
from The Society for Surgery
of the Alimentary Tract.
Her research
study was “Spatial Analysis of Rural
Disparities in Staging and Oncologic
Outcomes for Esophogeal and Pancreas
Cancer.”
Harald Lausen, DO, professor of
family and community medicine
and chief medical
officer of SIU
HealthCare, was
appointed to the
Family Medicine
Review Committee of the
Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education.
Wayne Mathews, MS, PA-C assistant
professor of family and community medicine, was
appointed to the
Healthcare Infection Prevention
Advisory Council
of Illinois.
Bradley Schwartz, DO, FACS, profes-
sor of surgery,
was selected
as Outstanding
Educator of the
Year by the SIU
Academy for
Scholarship in
Education.
Also
announced
was the first ever Outstanding Student
Medical Educator: Bryan Kidd, MD.
Steven Verhulst, PhD, professor
and director of
statistics and
research informatics in the
Center for Clinical Research,
was named the
2015 Outstanding Scholar at
Southern Illinois
University School of Medicine.
Lindsay Cunningham, Office of
Compliance, passed the Certified Professional Medical Auditor test administered by the American Academy of
Professional Coders.
Medical students working with
Tracey Smith, DNP, director of medi-
cal student education and community
outreach in the Department of Family
and Community Medicine, won first
prize in the 2015 American Academy of
Family Physicians Tar Wars Challenge
for Family Medicine Interest Groups.
This was the second year in a row the
group has won the $500 award for its
tobacco-free education efforts in our
community.
NEW FACULTY
Kevin Calder, MD, assistant professor, plastic
surgery,
was featured in
a column in the
State JournalRegister.
While driving
to Springfield
from his home
in Canada, he
helped a woman dealing with some
unfortunate circumstances. Her van was
broken down, and she was desperately
trying to get to Fargo, ND to check
into a homeless shelter. Dr. Calder
opened an online fundraiser to help her
get money to purchase a replacement
vehicle. Read the column at http://bit.ly/
caldercolumn.
Dr. Bradley Schwartz, professor of surgery, specializes in
minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopy, da Vinci robotic surgery, and
stone disease. Hear him
speak about his work
at http://bit.ly/schwartzvideo
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