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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.