Department of Family and Community Medicine and Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center
News and Events
We are very excited to introduce Emily Graber, MD as our new inaugural Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). As the director of POCUS Dr. Graber will work to expand our use of ultrasound technology to improve patient care in the clinic and the hospital. This will involve creating and implementing curricula for residents and supervising physicians in the department, ensuring the quality of ultrasound images and their clinical interpretations, and collaborating with other departments across the health system to make optimal use of this important tool.
In part two of the podcast series, Christina Wells, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Carl Earl Lambert, Jr., MD, FAAFP, and Marian Sassetti, MD, FAAFP discuss disparities in healthcare and the importance of preventative medicine. During this podcast, participants discussed how primary care doctors can address and prevent COVID-19 disparities. It is a message of hope and an opportunity for primary care providers to positively impact patients’ lives.
We congratulate Karl Kochendorfer MD, FAAFP, FAMIA on the publication titled Effect of Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support on Contextualization of Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial in health informatics. The study examined if customized clinical decision support (CDS) tools that provide clinicians with information about patient life challenges improve patient outcomes by helping clinicians contextualize their care.
Many congrats to the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) for receiving a $3 million grant to continue to expand its services nationwide. As a publicly funded HIV/AIDS training center at UIC College of Medicine at Chicago, MATEC provides clinical training and support to healthcare professionals in ten midwestern states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Sharing a new paper co-authored by Christine Neeb, MD, and Nicole Gastala, MD Neeb, many congrats to both! A great example of a clinical case study developed as a scholarly paper. Hamlish, T., Pasquinelli, M., Gastala, N., Huber, M., Manst, D., Andersen, K., Jarrett, J.B., Neeb, C., Tuite, J., Maes, P., Sung, C., Fleurimont, J., & Feldman, L. (2022). A Team-Based Approach to Effective Management of Pain and Opioid Use Disorder in Patients with Cancer: Case Report. Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports, 100196.
It is with great pleasure that we extend our congratulations to Dr. Memoona Hasnain on receiving the UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching (AET). UIC annually honors some of its most outstanding and dedicated teachers with the Award for Excellence in Teaching. The winners are chosen by past recipients of the award from nominations made by departments and colleges.
https://today.uic.edu/excellence-in-teaching-memoona-hasnain/
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Hall MD on being selected as the Departmental Faculty Rising Star Award for the University of Illinois College of Medicine on our Chicago Campus. This honor is awarded based on demonstrated potential to be a future leader in the medical field.
https://faculty.uic.edu/awards/reception/
Congratulations to Dr. Sagina Hanjrah MD on receiving the Departmental Faculty of the Year Award for the University of Illinois College of Medicine on our Chicago Campus. This honor is awarded based on a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching, research, service, or patient care.
https://faculty.uic.edu/awards/reception/
Congratulations to our academic fellow Dr. Wala Tout on being selected as the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) Resident Teacher of the Year, and Dr. Christina Wells on receiving the IAFP President’s Award. The Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) was founded in 1947 to maintain high standards for family medicine. The IAFP represents nearly 5,000 family doctors, residents, and medical students..
https://www.iafp.com/iafp-annual-meeting
Congratulations to our resident physicians Dr. Jontay Darko, MD, and Dr. Luthor Walls, MD for being selected for the GME House-Staff Diversity Council. The office of Graduate Medical Education (GME) at UIC has a commitment to the education of our faculty, fellows, residents, and staff across age, gender-identity-expression, race, ethnicity, country, regions of origin, cultures, socioeconomic status, political beliefs, spiritual/religious beliefs or other ideologies, disabilities and sexual orientation. The GME House Staff Diversity Council aims to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment. It provides resources for residents, fellows, faculty, and staff to enrich diversity, equity, and inclusion through training, educational development, and discourse.
We are pleased to recognize Dr. Richard (Rik) Stringham who was featured in the CMO September Newsletter as the “Top Box Doc of the Year” recipient. This annual recognition is awarded to the physician with the highest ambulatory site patient experience results as measured within the Press Ganey CGCAHPS database. For Fiscal Year 2022, he ranks in the 99th percentile among the 14,000 ambulatory sites surveyed by Press Ganey. Dr. Stringham achieved 100% Top Box scores in the three detailed CGCAHPS survey categories listed below.
https://www.flipsnack.com/7B775BBBDC9/cmo-news-sept-2022.html
We are pleased to introduce Dr. Evelyn Figueroa as our Director of Community Engagement. In recognition of the importance of the community in the practice of Family and Community Medicine and the role that it plays in advancing health equity, Dr. Figueroa as the Director of Community Engagement will facilitate and coordinate department activities in community engagement that strengthen relationships between DFCM and the communities we serve.
Congrats to our Quarter 4 FY22 Top Box Doctors: Ashish Ansal, MD, Christine Neeb, MD, Hunter Holt, MD, Jaime Palmer, MD, Nicky Gastala, MD, Pooja Monpara, MD, Rik Stringham, MD, Sara Henkle, MD, and Taylor Charest, MD. The “top-box” score indicates how often patients select the most positive response category when asked about their hospital experience. The higher a doctor’s “top-box” score, the higher the doctor ranks among those participating. This exceptional group of doctors received 100% Top Box Scores for “Recommend this Provider Office,” “Rate the Provider (0-10),” and “Physician Communication Quality.”
We are very saddened to announce the passing of our former department head Dr. John Hickner. Dr. Hickner served as our department head from 2013 – 2018. He was fiercely dedicated to his profession and his visionary impact on improving patient care with specific attention to safety, quality, and value in rural settings was widely regarded. His dedication and intellectual rigor have been reflected in the lives he has touched, from colleagues and staff to patients and students. He is survived by his wife, five children, and five grandchildren. https://www.mdedge.com/familymedicine/article/257315/memoriam-john-hickner-md-msc
Please join us in welcoming our new residency leadership, Claire Thesing, MD: Core Residency Faculty, Ana Paula Carvalho do Amaral, MD: Core Residency Faculty, and Dr. James Swakow, MD: Associate Program Director.
Dr. Evelyn Figueroa, MD was featured on July 9 Chicago Tonight Latino Voices about increasing food insecurity among Latino Chicagoans.
https://news.wttw.com/2022/07/09/battling-food-insecurity-chicago-s-latino-communities
We are excited to introduce Adrienne Williams, PhD as our new Inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Dr. Williams will provide vision and leadership for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the department’s clinical, research, education, service and community engagement areas. These initiatives will align with departmental goals and strategic plans.
A departmental internal funding award was made to Drs. Karl Kochendorfer, MD, FAAFP; Bhrandon Harris, MD; and Jai Nebhrajani, MD to foster scholarship and develop new programs. The UIC Primary Care Health Informatics Research Program (PCHIRP) is one such program that builds research capacity in informatics to serve more vulnerable patient populations and integrates into Midwest-based informatics, data science, and artificial intelligence center.
In a very positive review by HRSA, MATEC was awarded a grant for its AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) program. During the grant period, $3 million will be invested between 9/1/2022 and 8/31/2027. Co-PIs: Dr. Ricardo Rivero, MD, MPH and Corina Wagner, MEd, MBA. Co-investigators include Dr. Sarah Henkle, MD, AAHIVS.
We are both happy and sad to announce the retirement of our Associate Director of Medical Student Education Dr. Maureen Gecht-Silver. Dr. Gecht-Silver came to UIC in 1994 with over 16 years of experience as an occupational therapist working with patients with chronic health conditions and physical disabilities. Throughout her career, she has maintained an interest in helping clients manage their own health conditions and teaching health professionals to gain increased satisfaction from their work by inspiring the patient’s active role. Congratulations on your retirement and your wonderful career!
Congratulation to Joe Ann Lonzo-Jackson on receiving the 2022 Excellence in Nursing Community Care Award . The CARE Award is for employees who demonstrate the core values of UI Health, display a job performance that goes above and beyond expected performance, exhibit a patient-first mentality, are motivated and strive for excellence, contribute to the positive culture in the department and organization, and have made a difference in the life of a patient, visitor, or peer.
Dr. Andrew Dykens, MD, was funded for his National Cancer Institute project: “Adaptation and implementation of a patient navigation program for cervical cancer screening across contexts in Senegal.” 2.5 million dollars fund the grant over five years.
Funded by: U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
April 1, 2022 – March 30, 2027
Dykens, J.A. (P.I.) & Faye (Co-PI)
Congratulations to Dr. Adrienne Williams, Ph.D., for achieving “Provider” status for Cognitive Processing Therapy. Fewer than 60 clinicians in all of Illinois have reached Provider status for CPT. For more information on CPT
https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/treatments/cognitive-processing-therapy
Please congratulate Dr. Evelyn Figueroa; the American Red Cross awarded M.D. and her husband, Dr. Alex Wu, MD, the 2022 Community Impact Heroes award. For the past 20 years, at the annual Heroes Breakfast, the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago has honored individuals and groups for acts of immense bravery, dedication, and service to the community. Incredible heroes walk among us, delivering kindness and making a difference every day.
https://www.redcross.org/local/illinois/about-us/news-and-events/events/heroes-breakfast.html
Let’s give a round of applause to Dr. Memoona Hasnain for completing the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Fellowship. The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM®) program is a year-long part-time fellowship for women faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health, and pharmacy. The program is dedicated to developing the professional and personal skills required to lead and manage today’s complex health care environment, with special attention to the unique challenges facing women in leadership positions.
https://drexel.edu/medicine/academics/womens-health-and-leadership/elam/about-elam/
Congratulations to Drs. Evelyn Figueroa and Ariel Leifer who were featured along with our OB colleagues in the top article in the latest newsletter about the increased role our institution will likely provide in abortion care.
https://www.flipsnack.com/7B775BBBDC9/cmonewsjune2022.html
We would like to introduce our new physician Dr. Hunter Holt, who practices in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UI Health. Dr. Holt provides comprehensive primary care to patients of all ages. He has a special interest in research that focuses on cervical cancer prevention and on understanding the patient’s experience and implementing solutions that provide the most patient-centered care.
https://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/directory/name/hunter-holt-1/
We are both happy and sad to announce the retirement of our Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Nancy Miranda. Dr. Miranda worked as site medical director at Mile Square Back of the Yards providing professional medical care to many in the BOTY community. With over 39 years of experience, we are going to truly miss Dr. Miranda’s expertise. Celebrating you today! Congratulations on your retirement!
Congratulations to Dr. Bhrandon Harris who won the UIHealth HEPP Quality Shark Tank! His project was to build a UI Health Bar at Mile Square Main Clinic (to start), to allow patients to drop by and make sure that they can connect to MyChart and show them how to connect devices like Bluetooth BP cuffs and glucometers to automatically transfer data to Epic, to help reduce health disparities and close the digital divide.
https://twitter.com/UICCIFellowship/status/1538918392555503619
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Memoona Hasnain has been chosen as a recipient of UIC’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (AET) for 2022-23. This year’s review committee, comprised of past AET recipients, selected Dr. Hasnain for this recognition based on her outstanding commitment to teaching and learning excellence in the College of Medicine. Dr. Hasnain joins a select group of faculty members who have been acknowledged as UIC’s most dedicated and outstanding teachers. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor.
https://faculty.uic.edu/awards/recognition/aet/announcing-2022-23-aet-recipients/
Congratulations to Dr. Nicky Gastala for receiving the 2 for Excellence in Scholarship. Dr. Gastala has developed innovative research projects and has received significant external funding. She has spearheaded the expansion of behavioral health and addiction services at UI Health and MSHC, through the support of funding from HRSA, SAHMSA, SUPR, and CDPH. She has been able to expand training for medical students, residents, and faculty in serious mental illness and addiction, as well as increase access for patients. Dr. Gastala is a very effective team builder that works with numerous individuals and teams throughout UI health to help advance the agenda in terms of scholarship, patient care, and innovation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-10-24-0510240216-story.html
Congratulations to Dr. Paul Leo for receiving the 2022 Linda K. Gunzburger Resident Award for Excellence in Scholarship. Dr. Leo has demonstrated excellent skills in the area of scholarly work. He completed two scholarly projects as sole resident author: 1. “Post-Hospital Discharge Follow-Up Rates for Patients Hospitalized on the Family Medicine Service at UI Health” and 2. “Development of a Systematized Approach to the Management of First Trimester Bleeding in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.” Additionally, Dr. Leo is the first author of a manuscript published in Annals of Family Medicine entitled, “A Community Partnership to Improve Access to Buprenorphine in a Homeless Population.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-10-24-0510240216-story.html
Congratulations to Family Medicines FY 2022 Quarter 3 “Top Box Doctors.” Drs. Ariel Leifer, Ashish Ansal, Augustine Sohn, Brian Dudkiewicz, Christina Wells, Christine Neeb, Darcie Burton*, Evelyn Figueroa, Jai Nebhrajani, James Swakow, Jessica Richardson, Mark Potter, Nathan Stackhouse, Nicole Gastala, Nina Paroff all received 100% Top Box Doctor scores. This quarterly recognition is awarded to the physicians with the best ambulatory site patient experience scores as measured within the Press Ganey CGCAHPS database. Scoring at the 99th percentile rank in the following three CGCAHPS categories — Rate the Physician, Recommend the Physician, and Physician Communication — places them in the top 1% of his peers in the 29,000 ambulatory sites.
Please welcome our new faculty at our UV and Pilsen clinics. Drs. Kelsey Christensen, PhD starting 8/16/22, Michael Tarkey, MD starting 9/1/22 and Belsy Garcia Manrique, MD – 10/1/22.
We are delighted to share the good news that Kanwal Haque has been promoted to Senior Research Specialist, effective March 16, 2022.
Kanwal graduated with her Master’s in Public Health, Epidemiology from UIC School of Public Health in 2018. She has been with the Department of Family & Community Medicine since 2017, where she first started as a part-time Graduate Assistant and was subsequently hired full-time as a Research Associate in 2018. Kanwal is certified in Project Management with over seven years of research experience and has a passion for project management, data analysis, and collaborating with teams for research.
Dr. Andrew Dykens has received a $2.5 million, 5-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI).
This is a monumental achievement for Andrew as a researcher and a matter of great pride for our department. This grant is a culmination of Andrew’s consistent and meticulous work over many years, building relationships with institutional and global partners and persevering against the extremely competitive funding environment.
I would also add that this is the first R01 grant for our department! To get a sense of how competitive this type of funding is, from 2008 to 2017, the NIH awarded only 139 R01 grants to principal investigators (PIs) in family medicine. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31754582/
Dr. Karl Kochendorfer is one of the awardees for the UIH/OSF inaugural CHA grants for his project Social Determinants of Health Care Utilization: A Big Data Predictive Modeling Approach. UIC is partnering with Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare to award eight grants totaling more than $700,000 to support projects that remove barriers to care, particularly in low-income, under-resourced communities; enhance health and wellness education, and leverage technology to improve training and community outreach.
https://innovation.uic.edu/community-health-advocacy/cha-projects/
We are very excited to announce that Dr. Luis Rivera was offered and accepted the position of Medical Director for the Pilsen Clinic effective April 1, 2022.
Opened in 2016, The Pilsen Family Health Center Lower West provides families and individuals of all ages with comprehensive healthcare, including immunizations, physical exams, prenatal care, and complex medical care.
Dr. Rivera is the perfect ambassador as the Pilsen Clinic medical director. He grew up on the Southside of Chicago and lived in the Pilsen community during medical school and residency while working with various community organizations. Dr. Rivera also began his career professionally at UIC, including PMC. Through his work in Pilsen, Dr. Rivera has a great vision of how the clinic can further serve the community.
Dr. Keia Hobbs has been selected as one of two inaugural recipients of the Alvin H. Baum Family Fund Fellowship at the Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute.
The Alvin H. Baum Family Fund strives to better the lives of those who live and work predominantly in the Chicagoland area. Through innovative grants and collaborations, the Fund helps ignite new ideas and promote solutions to ensure healthier, more equitable, and peaceful communities. Together with its grantees and community partners, the Fund endeavors to better understand and address the causes rather than the symptoms of society’s most wicked challenges. https://baumfund.org/about/
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Christina Wells and Dr. Luis Rivera as Assistant Directors of the Patient-centered Medicine (PCM) Scholars Program, effective March 16, 2022.
Dr. Christina Wells is a board-certified family medicine physician who provides patient-centered care for individuals of all ages at the Mile Square Health Center.
As Assistant Director of the PCM Scholars Program, Dr. Wells will have special emphasis on the PCM Phase 1 and ECMH curriculum, clinical learning experiences for scholars, and lead the M2 Service Learning Program Homelessness concentration.
Dr. Luis Rivera is a board-certified family medicine physician who sees patients at the UI Health Pilsen Family Health Center Lower West Side. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in UIC’s College of Medicine.
As Assistant Director of PCM Scholars Program, Dr. Rivera will have special focus on the M2 Service Learning Program, including community-based learning experiences for scholars, developing sustainably community partnerships, and leading the M2 Service Learning Program Immigrant and Refugee Health concentration.
Another funding success for our faculty. WITH Foundation has grant awarded to DHD team including Dr. Maureen Gecht to provide training to self-advocates with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities (IDD) from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds to serve as patient instructors in the academic program for medical and healthcare students.
Dr. Kochendorfer was recently quoted in a new article in Clinical Pain Advisor about telemedicine and pain.
We’d like to share a new paper by Dr. Hunter Holt, adding to the evidence against race-based medicine and moving the field towards health equity. Many congratulations Dr. Holt on your important work!
Holt HK, Gildengorin G, Karliner L, Fontil V, Pramanik R, Potter MB. Differences in Hypertension Medication Prescribing for Black Americans and Their Association with Hypertension Outcomes. J Am Board Fam Med. 2022 Jan-Feb;35(1):26-34.
https://www.jabfm.org/content/35/1/26
USCF Press release about the paper: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/01/422151/race-based-prescribing-black-people-high-blood-pressure-shows-no-benefit
The Pilsen Food Pantry is featured on CBS about healthy cooking
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Evelyn Figueroa, featured on WTTW on September 4, regarding the Latinx community and COVID.
The Pilsen Food Pantry is featured in Block Club Chicago about fund raising for a permanent location.
Please join us in Congratulating Dr. Nicole Gastala on receiving the DFCM Rising Star Award. The Departmental Rising Star Award recipients are selected based on their strong potential to be future leaders in their chosen field. Awardees are at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and have served on the UIC faculty for less than ten years.
Congratulations, Dr. Evelyn Figueroa, on receiving the DFCM Faculty of the Year Award. The Departmental Faculty of the Year Award recipients are selected from the mid-career and senior faculty based on a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching, research, or service.
Dr. Mark Potter recognized as a Top Doctor in Chicago (Castle Connolly Magazine) – https://www.castleconnolly.com/family-medicine-chicago-mag
Congrats to Dr. Jess Richardson who was elected as a Medical Staff Executive Committee Delegate Alternate! The Executive Committee is the major advisory body to the Dean in the conduct of College business, in the formulation and execution of College policies. It has the responsibility to act on academic issues delegated to it by the faculty, including student admission, appraisal and promotion, faculty appointments and promotions, educational policy, and research policy.
Dr. Augustine Sohn received acknowledgement as the member of the Aquifer Consortium and associate editor for the course Aquifer Family Medicine. Aquifer is a unique mission-driven non-profit organization dedicated to delivering the best health care education through collaborative development and research into innovative, high-impact virtual teaching and learning methods. Aquifer’s courses are evidence-based, peer-reviewed, and continuously updated by the Educators Consortium, to support best practices in clinical teaching and learning.
Teresa Haro was selected as an honorable recipient of the 2021 Janice Watkins Award for Distinguished Civil Service. The award is to civil service employees whom: Exhibit genuine care for their fellow human being. Exhibit a pleasant, warm demeanor, are very cooperative; are well-informed, provide willing assistance to others, perform their required duties completely with diligence and dedication, provide excellent customer service and extend themselves beyond the performance of their regular duties and participate in campus and community activities or organizations that are beneficial to the well-being of the UIC campus.
https://sac.uic.edu/janice-watkins-award/
JoeAnn Lonzo-Jackson, Administrative RN, received her Doctorate of Nursing in Nursing Practice in October 2021.
Yvette Kimble MSN, APN, FNP-C received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree this August 2021.
https://hospital.uillinois.edu/find-a-doctor/yvette-kimble
We are pleased to announce that Memoona Hasnain, MD, MPHE, PhD, has been appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the College of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs. Dr. Hasnain also serves as Professor and Associate Department Head for Faculty Development and Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She holds adjunct faculty appointments in the UIC School of Public Health, Department of Medical Education and College of Nursing, and is an Honors College Faculty.
Please join in congratulating Dr. Hasnain!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Evelyn Figueroa MD, who has been selected as a recipient of the AAFP’s 2021 Humanitarian Award. This award was developed to acknowledge extraordinary and enduring humanitarian efforts, both within and beyond the borders of the United States. AAFP hopes the award will encourage AAFP members, their families, and their colleagues to assume a sense of global responsibility and will motivate service to others. Dr. Figueroa’s relentless work in health equity, social justice, homelessness, and food insecurity is an inspiration to her colleagues and community. Putting others first is truly in your DNA.
Congratulations on a monumental achievement!
Congratulations to Dr. Karl Kochendorfer on his research discovery entitled, “1-CDS (1-Click Decision Support)”. 1-CDS provides a patented clinical decision support system for healthcare providers and is designed from the clinician’s perspective, with specific attention to their needs and workflow. 1-CDS automatically connects busy, practicing clinicians to the best available evidence-based information. 1-CDS helps to improve healthcare decisions, enhance efficiency, decrease healthcare costs, decrease errors and improve patient outcomes. The Office of Technology Management has received disclosure and is excited to begin working with Dr. Kochendorfer.
Congratulations Dr. Brittani James who is featured in the NY Times for her work regarding race and racism in prominent medical journals leading to disparities in healthcare and medical education.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sean McClellan for receiving the 2021 Linda K. Gunzburger Award for Excellence in Scholarship Resident Award.
The Linda K. Gunzburger Award for Excellence in Scholarship Resident Award is given to a graduating Family and Community Medicine resident who has demonstrated consistent excellence in scholarship across the continuum of their residency training.
Congratulations to the entire University Village and Pilsen clinic staff who are recognized in the CMO Leadership Newsletter for providing continuous primary care since the start of the Covid pandemic as well as caring for our patients with signs and symptoms of Covid!
“Truly a brave and notable accomplishment on the part of everyone at UV and Pilsen.” – A. Leifer
Link to the Newsletter CMO Newsletter May 2021 by UI Health
Dr. Glenda Rios was acknowledged by the Office of Community Engagement and Health Equity Office of the UI Cancer Center for her valuable insight and contribution to the Virtual Town Hall meeting with Univision.
“Dr. Rios dedication and passion for our community was evident. We are honored to count on your support in our goal to educate and inform our communities about the importance of screening”
– OCEHEO of UI Cancer Center. The link to the recorded town hall can be found at https://go.uic.edu/OCEHEOofUICancerCenterVirtualTownHall
Congratulations and thank you to Dr. Jessica Richardson for representing UI Health Mile Square and the Department of Family and Community Medicine on the 4pm NBC news May 20th regarding the recent changes in colorectal cancer screening by the USPSTF.
Dr. Memoona Hasnain and her team have been awarded the inaugural I-Team award for the Interprofessional Approaches to Health Disparities Course that was developed and implemented for her Josiah Macy Faculty Scholar Award and is part of the Patient-centered Medicine Scholars Program.
“Despite our many challenges this year, our faculty have been making major strides in clinical innovation, education, and scholarship, and recognized as such.” Dr. Masahito Jimbo
Dr. Brittani James was named the recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism Award.
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Awards recognize graduating students and faculty members who demonstrate both clinical excellence and outstanding compassion in the delivery of care and who show respect for patients, their families, and healthcare colleagues.
We previously celebrated Dr. James winning the 2021 M3 Golden Apple Award and the Gold Humanism Honor Society Faculty Award from the College of Medicine. So, this will be a hat trick for her. Congratulations, Dr. James!
Dr. Brittani James is one of three Chicagoans honored in celebration of Martin Luther King Day
Dementia Guide Expert App Review by SilverScience2020
Dr. Brittani James was interviewed by CNN about vaccine hesitancy in the Black community.
Dr. Brittani James discussing racism in health care on WTTW PBS-TV Chicago on November 16, 2020
Dr. Evelyn Figueroa interviewed by Illinois Academy of Family Physicians
Dr. Brittani James interviewed by the AAMC about choosing a career in medicine
Dr. Brittani James interviewed about Coronavirus testing
COVID-19 survivor portraits at Pacific Garden Mission
Pilsen Food Pantry on CBS Morning News April 2020
Pilsen Food Pantry on CBS Nightly News April 2020
UIC COVID medical response at the Pacific Garden Mission April 2020
Dr. Figueroa talking about the different kinds of masks for Southside Weekly
Dr. Richard Stringham was interviewed by UIC Today about his Award for Excellence in Teaching (AET).
UIC DFM residency graduate Kameron Matthews was featured in The Lancet.
The UI Health Pilsen Food Pantry and Dr. Evelyn Figueroa were featured on Chicago Tonight.
Family Medicine Chief Resident featured on the Ellen Show
UIC identical twin Chief Residents featured on NBC Nightly News
Spring & Summer 2018 Newsletter
New book spotlights health disparities for South Asian Americans
New Mobile App Helps Families, Individuals Cope with Dementia