Stephanie Williams, MS Stephanie Williams, MS, is the new senior director of student affairs at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford. In her new role, Williams, the former director of student affairs-academic skills, will help to lead the day-to-day operations of academics, financial literacy and career advising. “In this new role, [...]
Jason Goode, EdD The Office of Student Affairs welcomes Jason Goode, EdD, as director of student affairs-career services. In this role, he will continue and expand the programs developed by Stephanie Calato, MS, who was promoted to Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, that help medical students prepare for and select a career path [...]
Garcia (pictured left) and Wojciehowski (pictured right), who are both in the Rural Medical Education Program, are the first two students accepted into the Integrated Family Medicine Residency Program. Reilly Wojciehowski and Holly Garcia, fourth-year University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford medical students, will have a more direct path to becoming family [...]
Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram, DVM, PhD The UIC Office of Technology Management and Office of the Vice Chancellor of Innovation granted a $50,000 Proof of Concept Award to further develop the LFGuardTM vaccine for lymphatic filariasis developed by Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram, DVM, PhD, at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford. Dr. Ramaswamy will [...]
Many pharmacy and medical students on campus volunteer to connect with Rockford-area seniors to help them stay healthy. For nearly three years, students, faculty and staff from both undergraduate and professional programs at University of Illinois Chicago have made almost 3,500 phone calls to older adults in the community through Golden Connections, [...]
Dr. Howard Waitzkin Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, an adjunct professor in the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford’s Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties and a distinguished professor emeritus in the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center and Department of Sociology, is joint first author of a newly released research article [...]
Sallini Kalachandran, MD The University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford welcomes Sallini Kalachandran, MD, as an assistant professor of clinical family medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Kalachandran is a graduate of Saba University School of Medicine. She completed her family medicine residency at UICOMR Family Medicine [...]
Jordan Vold, PA-C The Compassionate Appreciation for Recovery in Everyone (CARE) Program is growing and thriving in its second year of existence. The CARE Program, which offers mental health and substance use disorder treatment for formerly incarcerated people upon their release, has also received additional funding from the Winnebago County Community Mental Health [...]
Diane Potts, UICOMR assistant director of curriculum outreach and development, gives Kristen Green, MD, the 2022 Rural Health Hero Award. The National Center for Rural Health Professions at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford presented Rural Health Hero Awards at its annual National Rural Health Day on November 17. Crawford Memorial [...]
Dr. Annette Hays Virtual interviews do a fair job at conveying what a residency program is like, but there’s room for improvement, according to first-year medical residents who interviewed virtually in programs around the U.S. surveyed by University of Illinois College of Medicine. The results of the study appear in the journal Family Medicine. [...]
