newsletter - SIU School of Medicine

CALENDAR
October
19 Denim & Diamonds, Sangamo
Club, SIU Foundation, 545-2955
25 Fall Festival/Weiner Roast,
sponsored by the CQI holiday
committee,11:30 a.m., 801 court
yard, Stephanie George,
Educational Media, 545-3184
FYI
ITEC
Biotechnology, patent and
business services
to central Illinois
WE’RE MOVING: As of October 8, the SIU
Pediatric Surgery Clinic and Adult Urology
Clinic will move to The Pavilion, 4th floor,
B side. The new mail code is 9665 and
clinic phone is 545-7500. For information
call Ellen Eigenbrod, Surgery, 545-7390.
PSYCHIATRY OPEN HOUSE: As part of
mental awareness month, the Department
of Psychiatry/P&S Behavioral Health
Services will hold an open house from
3-6 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, at their new
offices, 901 W. Jefferson. For information,
call Patti Torchia, Psychiatry, 545-7675.
MIMI COVERT LECTURE: Perry
Schoenecker, M.D., St. Louis Children’s
Hospital, will present Thursday, October
24, during the 16th annual Mimi Covert
Memorial Lecture. He will present
“Common Congenital and Developmental
Deformities of the Lower Extremities in
Children” at Surgery Grand Rounds
7 a.m., at MMC’s Wedeberg Conference
Center; “Pelvic and Femoral Osteotomies
for Residual Hip Dysplasia” at 8:30 a.m.
and “The Management of Flat Foot and
Cavus Foot” at 9:45 a.m. at MMC’s room
G10. For information, call Judy Walsh,
Surgery, 545-6504.
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Next issue: Oct. 18 Deadline: Oct. 15
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VOL. 26 NO. 7 SIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OCTOBER 4, 2002
TECHNOLOGY GRANTS: The School of Medicine has received one of two state
grants awarded to SIUC to establish Illinois Technology Enterprise Corp. (ITEC)
centers. The $285,000 grant to the School will fund the Technology Development
Center of Springfield, which will provide services primarily to the biomedical
research and health care community and be focused on developing licensable,
marketable and useful biotechnology. Larry Aut, director of technology development
and transfer at SIU, will serve as executive director of the Springfield ITEC
center. SIUC will use its $375,000 grant to establish Southern TECH at the Dunn-
Richmond Economic Development Center in Carbondale.
CLASS ELECTS OFFICERS: Seventeen officers and committee members have
been elected for the class of 2003. Abigail Krause of Piper City and Jessica
Weinstein of Peoria were elected chairs of the senior class. Leah Delfinado of
Rochelle was elected secretary. Jamie Ikeda of Springfield was elected treasurer.
Dana Ray of Decatur and Craig Higgs of Dunlap were elected class representatives
to the student general assembly. The following were elected to committees:
Chris White of Thousand Oaks, Calif, Year 3 and 4 curriculum; Karen Whitehorn
of Chicago, library advisory; Matthew Lavery of Quincy, educational policy; Joel
Kary of St. Joseph, representative to the organization of student representatives;
Mark Luetkemeyer of Peoria, admissions; Michael Erlandson of Smithshire, and
Sheetal Patel of Springfield, student advisory; Dan Couri of East Peoria, and
Amanda Mulch of Quincy, student progress; Rafath Baig of Chicago, educational
policy/information management policy; and Charles Boley of East Peoria, information
management policy. (Officers for classes 2004, 2005 and 2006 will be
announced in future Newsletters.)
LECTURES & SYMPOSIUM: Daniel Villareal, M.D., professor of medicine, SUNY
Upstate Medical University, will present “Obesity Hypertension Cardio-Renal Tales
of Leptin” at Medicine Grand Rounds, 8 a.m. Tuesday, October 8, at E72 Memorial
Medical Center. For info., call Nancy Cowan, Medicine, 545-2538.
Lorelei Lingard, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, University of Toronto,
will present “Team Communications in the Operating Room: Understanding
Tensions, Advancing Teaching, and Promoting Patient Safety” at Surgery Grand
Rounds, 7 a.m. Thursday, October 17, E72 Memorial Medical Center. For information,
call Barb Carter, Surgery, 545-4401
Donald Paty, M.D., professor of neurology, University of British Columbia, will
present “Diagnosis and Management of MS from an MRI Perspective” at Neurology
Grand Rounds, noon, Thursday, October 17, conference room G10 and G10A
Memorial Medical Center. For info., call Stacey Warren, Neurology, 545-0168.
The third Sergio Rabinovich Regional Infectious Diseases Symposium will be
held 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 17, at John A. Logan College, 700 Logan
College Road, Carterville. Nancy Khardori, M.D., Ph.D., is the course director. For
information, call Continuing Medical Education, 545-4413.
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newsletter Southern Illinois University School of Medicine October 4, 2002
COMMUNITY CORNER
ENOS UPDATE: Thank you to the Enos School
mentors for the 2002-03 school year: Melissa
Anderson, Laurel Bailey, Dawnisa Baker,
Stephanie Christie, Dary Costa, Karen
Danenhauer, Wendy Dingel, Leslie Dignan-
Moore, Roxanna Eftekhari, Jessica Fivecoat,
Matthew Gardner, Ryan Gobble, Nancy Graves,
Bridget Heitz, Lori Jackson, Katie Jaskowiak,
Ryan Lakin, Chris Lee, Colin Liberman, Jeffrey
Link, Aja Lystilla, Sarah Maudlin, Chris
McDowell, Carla Muntz, Stacy Orwig, Sarah
Parrish, Jennifer Pope, Holly Russell, Heather
Saavedra, Quinn Sanner, Melinda Smith,
Cozumel Southern, Ericka Stone, Gwen
Unzicker, Todd Wente, and Jill Wirth, all sophomores;
Christy Shanks, junior; and Lisa Waldeck,
Medical Humanities. Contact Cheryl Meyer,
Purchasing, 545-1157 or cmeyer@siumed.edu for
information.
UNITED WAY: United Way of Central Illinois is
holding a Holiday Card Art Contest. Children ages
7 to 12 are invited to submit a drawing that says
"What United Way means to me." The winner will
receive a $50 gift certificate and a United Way Tshirt
and their artwork will be used as a cover of
United Way's 2002 holiday card. Entries are due to
the United Way office by October 15. Go to
www.uwcil.org/campaign_resources.htm for further
information.
RUN FOR EXCELLENCE: The Springfield Public
Schools Foundation is sponsoring a five mile run
8:30 a.m. Saturday, October 26, at the Lost Bridge
Trail behind the Illinois Department of
Transportation. For information, contact Merle
Shiffman, Public Affairs, 545-5616, or
mshiffman@siumed.edu.
STAFF UPDATE: June P. Lang has been named director of development
at the School. Previously, she was on the development staff at
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., fundraising for Student
Services and the School of Agriculture (1995-2002). She has five years
experience in administration for Purdue’s international programs in agriculture
(1979-84) and was owner/manager of a floral business for 14
years. Lang earned her bachelor’s degree at Purdue (1979) and a certificate
in fund raising management at Indiana University Center for
Philanthropy (1995).
CIVIL SERVICE UDATES: A Civil Service election will take place
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, in the Harbinger conference
room, 801 N. Rutledge, and room 3A153, St. John’s Pavilion. Alice
Costa, Surgery, and Lynne Cleverdon, Medical Humanities, are candidates
for campus representative to the State Universities Civil Service
Advisory Committee. For additional information, contact Janet Stormer,
Human Resources, 545-2630.
Current Catalog is donating to the Civil Service Council 50% of each
item purchased. These funds will help to fund prizes for the holiday
reception. Orders will be taken through November 1 by contacting a
member of the Civil Service Council or Current’s website www.currentfun.com.
Choose Illinois and SIU School of Medicine Civil Service
Council to ensure credit gets to the council. Questions can be directed
to Chris Hobrock, Education/Curriculum, 545-5665.
FLU SEASON IS COMING: Details for flu shots have been distributed to
all Springfield faculty, employees, retirees, graduate assistants, medical
students and residents. Flu vaccinations will be offered, free of charge,
at various times and locations during October. A $5 fee will be charged
to spouses and dependent children and retirees and their spouses. For
more information, call Brenda Vilayhong, SIU P&S, 545-8850.
DEPRESSION SEMINAR: David Resch, M.D., Medicine, will present
“When the Blues Cloud the Healing” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 8, at
Wedeberg Conference Center. This is part of a free depression and anxiety
screening offered by Memorial Behavioral Health Group. For more
information call Memorial’s HealthLine, 788-3333.
NEWS BRIEFS
PRESENTATION: Syed Gilani, M.D., Medicine, presented “Electronic Home Monitoring Reduces Hospital Admissions, Length of Stay
and Readmission Frequency in a Selected Heart Failure Population” and “Electronic Home Monitoring Has an Early Impact on Hospital
Financial Resource in Class III and IV Heart Failure Patients” at Heart Failure Society of America's annual meeting in Boca Raton, Fla.
in September. Gilani also presented two posters “Pacemaker Pocket Discomfort Due to Dystrophic Calcification” and “Electronic Home
Monitoring Reduces Hospital Admission, Length of Stay and Readmission Freuency in a Selected Heart Failure Population” at the
Central Society of Clinical Research meeting in Chicago in September.
Barbara Mason, Medical Humanities, presented the history of medicine to the Genealogical Society at the Taylorville Historical
Society and to the State Home extension service in Springfield this fall.
PUBLICATION: Amy Arai, Ph.D., Yan-Fang Xia, Markus Kessler, Ph.D., all Pharmacology, co-authored with other “Effects of 5'-alkylbenzothiadiazides
on AMPA receptor biophysics and synaptic responses” in Molecular Pharmacology; Vol. 62:566-577, 2002.
Arai also co-authored with others “Prolactin-Releasing Peptide (PrRP) Promotes Awakening and Suppresses Absence Seizures” in
Neuroscience; Vol. 114:229-238, 2002.
Quincy Scott, D.O., and Cynthia Ledbetter, both Family/Community Medicine, Leslie Lloyd, Laurie Dunn, Katy Deuel, all
Physician Assistant program, co-authored “A Call for Problem-based Learning in Physician Assistant Education” in Perspective on
Physician Assistant Education; 2002:13(1); 29-33.
Shyam Bhat, M.D., Psychiatry, published “Postictal Asystole during Electroconvulsive Therapy” in the Journal of Electroconvulsive
Therapy, July 2002.
STAFF UPDATE: Welcome to Tyler Allison, researcher, Neurology; John Busciacco, reimbursement coding, SIU P&S Coding; Lisa
Cox, researcher, Pharmacology; and George O’Brien, lab animal caretaker, Laboratory Animal Medicine. Farewell to Margaret
Edmonds, Psychiatry; Royce Miller, Surgery; Diana Reiser, Surgery; Evelyn Schumacher, Patient Business Services; Sarah Starks,
Medicine; Dorthy Tait, Patient Business Services; Donna Toals, Psychiatry, and Shawn Trimmer, Medicine.