With support from the National Institutes of Health, the IMARA program, a sexual education and skills-building program designed to help reduce the incidence of new sexually transmitted infections, will be adapted for adolescent girls and young women in South Africa. This new grant was recently featured on UIC Today and on the National Institute of Child and [...]
Newest Member of the Board of ASRA Effrossyni Gina Votta-Velis, MD PhD, was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Dr. Votta-Velis is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology who has research interests in exploring the effects of Local Anesthetics on cancer. She also serves as our Pain Fellowship [...]
Thursday, November 29th, 2018 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm UIC College of Nursing 3rd Floor Event Center 845 South Damen Avenue To RSVP, visit: go.uic.edu/CDISreception2018 To learn more about CDIS or any of our upcoming events, visit go.uic.edu/CDIS or email CDIS@uic.edu
Geri Donenberg, director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science, is a member of the new Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance (AHISA), which aims to enhance the effective use of evidence and help overcome implementation challenges related to prevention, screening and treatment of HIV among adolescents (ages 15 to 24) in sub-Saharan Africa [...]
Our Annual Conference, “Challenges in OB/Gyn: Pearls for Practice”, held on October 26, 2018, was a resounding success! Registrants heard from and interacted with national and international Distinguished Faculty who provided state-of-the-art lectures on patient care topics. The Conference began with our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Erica Marsh, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and [...]
Dr. Pilar Mercado, is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology who serves in our Pediatric Anesthesiology Division. In the November 12, 2018 edition of the Chicago Tribune, she discusses the parallels of culture and practice between law enforcement and medicine and the importance of transparency and accountability in both fields. Please click below for article. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-stress-workplace-culture-police-officers-doctors-1112-story.html
Caldwell B, Greenwald D, Moreira D, Tain RW, Coogan C, Xie K, Mar W, Pfanner P, Abern M. "Constructing and Pilot Testing a Novel Prostate MRI/US Fusion Biopsy Phantom.", Urology. 2018 Oct 23 Read abstract >
Campelo Y, Ombredane A, Vasconcelos AG, Albuquerque L, Moreira DC, Plácido A, Rocha J, Hilarion Fokoue H, Yamaguchi L, Mafud A, Mascarenhas YP, Delerue-Matos C, Borges T, Joanitti GA, Arcanjo D, Kato MJ, Kuckelhaus SAS, Silva MPN, Moraes J, Leite JRSA, Iacovelli V. “Structure⁻Activity Relationship of Piplartine and Synthetic Analogues against Schistosoma mansoni and Cytotoxicity [...]
