06.25.09 New Providers Join SIU Med School’s Memory and Aging Network
Three local providers have joined the Memory and Aging Network at Southern Illinois
University School of Medicine’s Center for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders. The new
provider sites are Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Community Resource and Counseling Center
in Paxton and Human Service Center in Red Bud.
06.25.09 St. John’s participating in renal nerve ablation trial to treat resistant high blood pressure
SPRINGFIELD, IL – Prairie Heart Institute at St. John’s Hospital is pioneering a procedure in
which the nerves in the renal arteries are deadened in order to attenuate hypertension. The
procedure relies on the same minimally invasive technique that is used in cardiac catherizations.
06.25.09 SIU Med School Receives Its Largest NIH Grant
A research scientist at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield has
been awarded the largest National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant ever received at the medical
school. Andrzej Bartke, Ph.D., professor and SIUC distinguished scholar of internal medicine
and physiology, has received a five-year federal grant from the National Institute of Aging, a
division of NIH.
06.25.09 SIU Med School Awarded National Family Medicine Honor
The Department of Family and Community Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has received a “Top Ten Award” from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) as one of the top ten medical schools in the nation for producing family medicine physicians.
