The UIC Health Sciences Campus-Rockford announces the 27th Annual Research Day Call for Abstracts. All students, staff, residents, faculty and health care professionals are invited to participate! Research Day is intended as a forum to highlight research conducted at the UIC Health Sciences Campus-Rockford, as well as affiliated and regional institutions. Literature reviews and program implementation [...]
Innovation Grant Awarded to Create Interprofessional Patient Discharge Simulation
Funding from the UIC-OSF Community Health Advocacy Program will allow a team of researchers that includes faculty from University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford to develop standardized simulation activities with the goal of helping new health profession students develop valuable skills in discharging patients. The hope is that such simulations and interprofessional education will [...]
Help us Change the World on Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is November 30, so get ready to support the areas of the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford that you care about. Together, we can change the world. Visit our UIC Giving Tuesday page to learn more.
James Scholar Project Accepted for Presentation
Jordan Saeed Congratulations to fourth-year medical student Jordan Saeed whose James Scholar project entitled Impact of Visible Tattoos on Patients’ Confidence in Healthcare Providers as Measured in a Medical School Population was accepted for presentation at the Urgent Care Association (UCA) Annual Convention 2021, originally scheduled to take place in New Orleans this October. Unfortunately the [...]
Medical Student to Present at 90th Annual Plastic Surgery Meeting
Congratulations to Sydney Mathis, MD candidate 2024, whose submission entitled Same-Day Virtual Reality Surgical Planning and Intraoperative Navigation: A New Surgical Workflow for Craniofacial Trauma and Reconstruction was accepted for presentation at the 90th Annual Plastic Surgery The Meeting 2021, taking place in Atlanta this Octo Sydney Mathis, M2 ber. The Office of [...]
Bridge Funding Now Available for UICOMR Faculty
The Office of Research is now accepting applications for the 2022 Bridge Funding cycle. Bridge funding is intended to provide short-term financial support to sustain the research programs, laboratories, and momentum of productive researchers during funding gaps to give them a chance to regain extramural funding. Bridge funding is targeted to all members of the [...]
Dr. Khare Receives Women of Achievement Professions Award
Dr. Manorama Khare Manorama Khare, PhD, recently received the Women of Achievement Professions Award from the YWCA of Northwestern Illinois. Dr. Khare is a research associate professor and interim director of the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford’s Division of Health Policy and Social Sciences Research. She is a well-published public health [...]
Award Winners for Research Week 2021
Below are the list of award winners for the 26th Annual Research Day. View the whole list of all of the research projects here. Best Basic Science Research Poster Award Sponsored by Department of Biomedical Sciences Preksha Shahagadkar Exploring NCX4040, an Aspirin Derivative, for Treating Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Best Basic Science Research [...]
Research Publication List 2019-2020
Research Week showcases some of our research, but our faculty, staff and students have a number of research publications and presentations throughout the year. Find out more about our research from the last year. Publication List (Jan. 2019–Dec. 2020)
Research Day 2021
Welcome to Research Week 2021 This showcase of research projects from the UIC Health Sciences Campus-Rockford and the Rockford area is impressive — please join us in this celebration of research activities. This year's theme is The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19. View the 2021 Award winners here which were announced Friday, April [...]