SIU Medicine will offer pulmonary care appointments at its Decatur Specialty Clinic. Appointments will be available on the first and third Monday of each month. Providers include Dr. Omar Abdulfattah, MD, and Emily Ackerman, APRN. New patients will be accepted starting in February 2022. Please ask your primary care doctor to send a referral to 217-545-8000. The clinic is located at 102 W. Kenwood Ave, Suite 100 in Decatur.

SIU Medicine will offer pulmonary care appointments at its Decatur Specialty Clinic. Appointments will be available on the first and third Monday of each month. Providers include Dr. Omar Abdulfattah, MD, and Emily Ackerman, APRN. New patients will be accepted starting in February 2022. Please ask your primary care doctor to send a referral to 217-545-8000. The clinic is located at 102 W. Kenwood Ave, Suite 100 in Decatur.

SIU Medicine will offer pulmonary care appointments at its Decatur Specialty Clinic. Appointments will be available on the first and third Monday of each month. Providers include Dr. Omar Abdulfattah, MD, and Emily Ackerman, APRN. New patients will be accepted starting in February 2022. Please ask your primary care doctor to send a referral to 217-545-8000. The clinic is located at 102 W. Kenwood Ave, Suite 100 in Decatur.

Many people are able to fully recover from COVID-19. However, some continue to have long-lasting health effects. These patients, often called long-haulers, may need focused medical care to address the ongoing effects of COVID-19. Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can experience for weeks after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Typical long-lasting symptoms: • Brain fog, or trouble concentrating, remembering or sleeping • Blood-clotting disorders • Anxiety and depression • Blood sugar issues including diabetes •

Endometriosis is a disease in which cells that normally grow inside the uterus grow outside the uterus on the surface of abdominal organs, and can cause pain and infertility. The disease affects 1 in 10 women and causes fertility problems in nearly half of women with the disease. Andrea Braundmeier-Fleming, PhD, knows the disease well. The SIU Medicine research scientist has suffered from it for over 30 years and it became a motivating factor in her career in medical immunology research. She and her colleagues have published results from a new study that could lead to a more rapid diagnosis of