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Clinical Specialties The providers of the Neuroscience Institute at SIU care for patients with complex brain and spine disorders in these specialty areas: Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias Epilepsy Brain and spinal tumors Neuromuscular medicine Parkinson’s disease Vascular neurology/neurosurgery (stroke) Neurocritical care Neurocognitive disorders Neurodevelopmental disorders Pediatric neurology Child psychiatry Spine disorders Peripheral nerve disorders Brain and spinal trauma Anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders Mood disorders Schizophrenia Geriatric psychiatry We provide

Neurosurgeons specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders that affect any portion of the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.

Neurosurgeons specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders that affect any portion of the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system. Treatment encompasses both non-operative management and operative management with its associated image use and interpretation. Operative management may include endovascular surgery, functional and restorative surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and spinal fusion. In conjunction with Springfield Memorial Hospital and HSHS St. John’s Hospital, state-of-the-art

In March, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law a plan to transform health care in underserved communities, offering support to improve access and collaborations with the goal of greater equity. The State will invest $150 million using federal matching funds to fill health care gaps and focus on underlying health conditions in areas high on the CDC's social vulnerability index scale. These communities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and are in areas served by critical access and safety-net hospitals, including rural parts of the state. The foundation for this

Since early 2020, health care systems around the world have been adapting to the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now deep into its second year, its impact cannot be understated.

SIU School of Medicine authors published 39 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. See the list at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/carol.gordon.1/collections/53… .

Governor JB Pritzker and state and local officials celebrated the launch of a new Behavioral Health Workforce Center that will increase Illinois’ capacity to recruit, educate, and retain behavioral health professionals. The Center will be based at SIU School of Medicine.

CARBONDALE, IL - SIU Medicine is welcoming patients, residents and students to a new state-of-the-art clinic and teaching facility at 300 W. Oak Street. The 40,000-square-foot space will be the home to SIU Center for FamilyMedicine–Carbondale and SIU Medicine’s Physician Assistant Program. Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) funded the new facility and is leasing the building to SIU Medicine. The construction plan was developed as SIU’s family medicine clinic began to outgrow its space in the professional office building connected to SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. The Physician Assistant

TAYLORVILLE – A new clinic offering primary care and behavioral health services in Taylorville will hold an open house for the community from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 303 E. Bidwell St. The integrated clinic, which opened for business last month, is shared by Memorial Behavioral Health, an affiliate of Memorial Health System, and the SIU Center for Family Medicine-Taylorville. Light refreshments, including cookies and hot chocolate, will be served. The open house will include tours of the clinic, which is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. The SIU Center for Family Medicine