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Brianna Griggs, MPH, Kate Merrill, PhD, and Nyssa Snow-Hill, PhD presented a symposium at the 18th Biennial Conference for the Society for Community Research and Action – “Using Innovative Health Promotion Programs and Implementation Strategies to Address Health Disparities among Black Youth”. This symposium reviewed three innovative strategies for implementing evidence-based programs (EBP) in settings serving [...]
Molly Martin, MD, MAPP CDIS Associate Director for Community Engagement The University of Illinois Chicago has been selected by the National Institutes of Health as the principal site of a multi-center collaborative in the Chicago area that will bolster research and outreach to help communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. As part of the [...]
Congratulations to Drs. Joan Briller and George Kondos who were listed in the Chicago Mag as top heart docs in cardiovascular disease. https://bit.ly/3AKVdJh
UI Health Diabetes Center is having its annual Bike Ride fundraiser, ‘The Sweet Ride’, on Saturday, September 18, 2021. For more information and to register please go to: https://www.bikesignup.com/Race/IL/WillowSprings/SweetRide. If you would like to donate go to: https://go.uic.edu/SweetRideDonate.
Dr. Vijay Yeldani, clinical professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, said he is seeing whole families sick with COVID. He's a Chicago doctor helping out in India. No one is able to take care of each other, and hospitals are overflowing, he said. "Right now it's terrible," Yeldani said. Yeldani is a [...]
Dawood Darbar (Photo: Jenny Fontaine) A new mutation found in a gene associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation poses a significantly increased risk for heart failure in Black people. The discovery, made by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, could change current guidelines that recommend against genetic testing in people [...]
Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, proclaimed April 21, 2021, to be SARCOIDOSIS DAY IN CHICAGO to raise awareness about sarcoidosis and encourage all residents to support the vital work done by those working to diagnose and treat sarcoidosis.
National Kidney Foundation Presents Educator and Investigator with Shaul G. Massry Award Dr. James Lash to be honored at 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings for dedication to kidney health Each year the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work of hundreds of specialists in the field of nephrology and selects among them those who most exemplify [...]
Dr. George Kondos, vice head for the Department of Medicine, has used a simulator known as Harvey to educate medical students on how to give a cardiology exam. Since COVID-19 made classes go online he has been using it remotely to teach more than 300 students. Over the last 30 years, Dr. George [...]
