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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Incidence Of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Anthony Kavanagh, Arianna Mcclellan, Asa Smith-Villegas, Djelika Kabore, Lina Shalaby, Tara Rahmani, Vyom Grover, Zackariah Farah

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Chronic Illness Strategies & Resources: Type 1 Diabetes In Adolescence, Christian Turner, Emmett Miller, Halle Jonassaint, Kristina Zheng, Mehr Bawa, Supreet Singh, Tracy Markray, Victor Tawansy

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Kidney Disease In Adults, Alan Berkovitz, Alejandro Damian, Anthony Tundo, Haziq Latif-Jangda, Jared Poliskey, Kristen Bartow, Petra Johnson, Sophie Turner

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Empowering Families With Resources To Combat Childhood Obesity, Abisola Fasakin, Alqasim Elnaggar, David Abdelnour, Mujeebah Kamal-Muili, Prit Patel, Ryan Palazzolo, Sydney Huston

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Improving Lifestyle Choices In Children Withtype-2 Diabetes Mellitus, David Williams, Hariharan Ramakrishnan, Luv Thakkar, Sanjana Kumar, Srikar Munukutla, Stephan Gonzalez, Taqwa Naas, Ted Hirschfield

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Diabetes Mellitus In Adult Males, Abdul Naser Zamzami, David Echeverri, Isabella Costa, Musaed Al Rashidi, Pooja Menon, Xiaohan Zhan, Zain Abdun-Noor

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Lifestyle Modification Resources For Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction, Ali Mustapha, Cheyenne Gonzales, Clara Devota, Emily Yao, Mahmood Alsughayer, Marcel Addis Jackson, Namrata Vedagarbha, Shane Tinsley

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Prevent Adolescent Hypertension, Anabelle Dally, Carlton Parker, Henry Ubaydi, Isabella Garcia, Joshua Mathews, Lila Tudrick, Michelle Brown, Ralph Durgham

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Barriers To Effective Diabetes Management In A Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Setting, Amaris Bradley, Karen Nakhla, Kyle Tsutsui, Mohamad Fardous, Saihaj Deol, William Frazier, Yeganeh Tabatabaei Alavi, Zackary Taylor

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Hypertension Prevention Strategies Catered Towards Pre-Menopausal Women, Jack Summers, Juan Rios, Karli Monahan, Lara Thomas, Leah Abdallah, Noah Ramirez, Noor Ghanam, William Merchun

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: A Highly Misunderstood, Multifactorial Disease, Alexa Maruszewski, Ali Eidy, Chelsea Kumi, Hailey Hartmann, Jacob Pawlowski, Kinan Suliman, Laura Garcia, William Davie

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Preventative Measures To Mitigate The Development Of Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease, Alexander Orr, Celina Wu, Elijah Marquez, Fateh Ahmad, Kendyll Gartrelle, Logan Harrison, Mia Sooch, Zahra Chehab, Emilio Espinal

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Local Action, Lower Pressure- Resources To Advocate For Improvement In Hypertension Within The Community, Carinne Jarvis, Elinor Harrison, George Yalamanchili, Kamakashi Sharma, Mackenzie Fitzgerald, Neel Lachhwani, Nimr Assaf, Richard Tuttle

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Risk Of Hypertension, Bruna Storch Dos Santos, Bryce Brophy, Chonling Liu, Emily Webber, Izzy Havis, Janet Brenya, Noma Imudia, Eli Jarjous

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: School-Centered Interventions To Address Childhood Obesity, Aaron Yang, Amanda York, James Mcknight, Madison Jordan, Myron Shaba, Riley Marchin, Rita Pisegna, Constantine Tangalos

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Education And Resources To Improve Pediatric Type I Diabetes Mellitus Care Within Schools And Child Care Services, Alexander Seidel, Alexandra Thomas, Christine Larrea, Daven Sarikonda, Jack Gurwin, Maria Karla Bermudez Pineiro, Matthew Mello, Sana Soman

Patient Education Projects

No abstract provided.

Telogen Effluvium And Anesthesia Considerations: A Case Report., Elizabeth Johnson-Gray, Samantha A Currier, Hanen Fernandez, Matt Brown, Matthias Franzen

Ambulatory and Primary Care Articles

Telogen effluvium is a form of non-scarring hair loss characterized by premature shedding of hair. Pathophysiologically, telogen effluvium occurs when a significant number of hair follicles prematurely enter the telogen phase, resulting in excessive shedding. The exact mechanism is unclear, but it is believed to involve alterations in the hair follicle's growth cycle, possibly mediated by illness, infection, major surgery, low protein intake, or hormonal changes. Some medications can also be linked to this disease, such as beta blockers, carbamazepine, and vitamin A. When affected hairs are in the resting phase, noticeable hair shedding occurs. Our patient was a 61-year-old …

Institute For Global Health And Development : Issue 11 - July 2025, Institute For Global Health And Development

IGHD Newsletters

• Climate Change, Water, And the Way Forward
• Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta Joins Global Panel on CGTN America For World Health Day 2025
• IGHD Welcomes New Associate Faculty Members
• Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta Named American Society For Nutrition (ASN) Distinguished Fellow 2025
• IGHD’s Dr. Ammad Qazi Delivers Keynote Address at AKU Climate Change Event
• New IGHD Research Project to Develop Sustainable Health Infrastructure in LMICS

CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER, AND THE WAY FORWARD

A Recipe For Disaster - Sodium Bicarbonate Overdose, Adeola A Kosoko, Amara Ogoke, Kyle Vogt

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Audience: Emergency medicine residents post-graduate years 1-4.

Introduction: Sodium bicarbonate is a compound found commonplace in many households and in many products. It lends itself to countless everyday uses including cooking and cleaning. Physicians prescribe sodium bicarbonate regularly both on- and off-label regularly for various ailments.1 Due to the ubiquitous way both emergency physicians and the general public use and are exposed to sodium bicarbonate, we wanted to prepare learners to identify and appropriately manage sodium bicarbonate toxicity.Obtaining a thorough history not just of medications prescribed but of significant ingestions or infusions is critical in diagnosing this toxicity. Furthermore, acute …

Struggling Access To Justice Through Mediation In Bangladesh: Headway Lessons From Australia, Jamila A. Chowdhury, Mehnaz Siddiqui

The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies

Enormous case backlog and protracted delays in courts are hindering access to justice in Bangladesh. Consequently, an initiative to provide quick and low-cost consensual justice through mediation was first initiated in the family courts of Bangladesh in the year 2000. However, although after an initial success, the system has been struggling over the decades. While contemporary research has identified various constraints causing such meager disposal of cases in family courts, using expert interviews of family court judges and relevant literature review on Australian family courts, this Chapter reiterates such constraints to generate relevant headway lessons from Australia that has excelled …

The Effect Of Integrating Augmented Reality (Ar) Technology In Science Education Teaching On Improving The Biological Concepts Learning Among Kindergarten Children, Kawthar Habeeb

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

This quasi-experimental study explored the impact of AR on acquiring biological concepts among kindergarteners. The sample comprised 30 second-level kindergarteners from a school in Farwaniya Educational Directorate, Kuwait. Participants were randomly divided into an experimental group (n = 15), taught using AR, and a control group (n = 15), taught traditionally. Results revealed statistically significant di erences in biological concept understanding, favoring the experimental group. Additionally, the experimental group demonstrated significant improvement from pre-test to post-test stages. These findings highlight the potential of AR to enhance learning outcomes in kindergarten biology education. The study emphasizes the importance of integrating AR …

The Effect Of Oral Colchicine And Vitamin K1 On Bone Metabolism In Patients With Diabetes Mellitus: A Post-Hoc Analysis Of A 2 × 2 Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial With 18F-Sodium Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography, Jamie W. Bellinge, Marc Sim, Roslyn J. Francis, Sing Ching Lee, Dick C. Chan, Christian M. Girgis, Gerald F. Watts, Joshua R. Lewis, Carl J. Schultz

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Purpose: Diabetes mellitus (DM) confers an increased risk of fracture. Fracture risk stratification techniques are imperfect, and preventative therapies are sparse. We aimed to describe features associated with a dysfunctional bone metabolism determined by 18F-Sodium Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography (18F-NaF PET) in patients with DM and test the effects of vitamin K1 and colchicine therapy on vertebral 18F-NaF activity. Methods: This is a post-hoc analysis of a 2 × 2 factorial randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Participants aged 50–80 with DM underwent 18F-NaF PET/CT imaging at baseline, 3 months of therapy with vitamin K1 (10mg/daily) or placebo, and colchicine (0.5 mg/day) …

Blue Light Is A Key Factor In Regulating Stomatal Movement, Transpiration Rate And Aba Metabolism Under Varying Vapour Pressure, Sheona Noemi Innes, Sara Brunborg Jakobsen, Rikke Bryn Røsåsen, Haider Ali, Knut Asbjørn Solhaug, Jorunn Elisabeth Olsen, Sissel Torre

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Vapour pressure deficit (VPD) and blue light (BL) are import signals for stomatal regulation and highly relevant during cultivation of economically important crops such as cucumber in controlled environments. However, the information about combined effects of VPD and BL and the regulation of abscisic acid (ABA) in this respect, is limited and seems to vary between species. This study investigated how moderate (1.12 kPa) or low (0.28 kPa) VPD combined with 5% or 30% BL affect the foliar ABA metabolism, transpiration rate, nutrient uptake, and growth in well-watered cucumber plants (Cucumis sativus ‘Quatro’). Additional BL, regardless of VPD, resulted in …

Foundations And Strategic Vision Of The Canadian Translational Geroscience Network, Guy Hajj-Boutros, Andréa Faust, John Muscedere, Perry Kim, Gilles Gouspillou, Lea Harrington, James L. Kirkland, George A. Kuchel, Jeremy Van Raamsdonk, R. Jane Rylett, Chantal Autexier, Louis R. Lapierre, Michael Kobor, Mohammad Auais, Ann Beliën, Jeroen Aerssens, George Sutphin, Kenneth Rockwood, Alexandra Papaioannou, Marc Sim, Jamie Justice, Nancy Mayo, Gustavo Duque

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Geroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field that explores the biological connections between aging and the development of chronic diseases, with the ultimate goal of identifying interventions to extend healthspan and delay age-related conditions. Recognizing the growing importance of this field, the Canadian Translational Geroscience Network (geroscience.ca) was officially launched during a conference held in Montreal on September 5-6, 2024. Building on the momentum of successful Geroscience meetings in Toronto and Montreal in 2023, this milestone event marked a transformative step forward for geroscience in Canada. This event brought together key stakeholders, including the Canadian Frailty Network (CFN), the Canadian Institutes …

Time Alters Distinct Memories Driven By Sensory Prediction Errors And Task Errors In Sensorimotor Adaptation, Li Ann Leow, Welber Marinovic, Scott Albert, Timothy J. Carroll

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Prior learning can impair future learning when the requirements of the two memories conflict, a phenomenon termed anterograde interference. In sensorimotor adaptation, the passage of time between initial and future learning can reduce such interference effects, leading to the interpretation that time consolidates motor memories, protecting motor memories from interference. However, we still do not fully understand how time affects learning, as some studies found no effects of time on interference. One possible explanation for such inconclusive findings is that time has distinct effects on the multiple processes underpinning sensorimotor adaptation, and these processes may compensate for each other's effects …

A Systematic Review Of The Internet Of Things And Artificial Intelligence Applications In Milk Quality Monitoring And Analysis, Rahul Mhapsekar, Deirdre Kilbane, Steven Davy, Lizy Abraham, Mark Fenelon, Norah O'Shea

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Background: Milk quality analysis (MQA) is critical for ensuring high-quality dairy production and enhancing the productivity of dairy processing plants. The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionise MQA by enabling automated, real-time detection and monitoring of key parameters (i.e. composition, adulterants, indicators of microbial quality), reducing human error and improving decision-making in the dairy supply chain. Aim(s): This systematic review aimed to evaluate the application of IoT and AI in MQA over the past decade, focussing on three critical areas: composition monitoring, adulteration detection and indicators of microbial quality. Methods: A systematic analysis of …

Volume 34, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2025, Office Of Communications, Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2018-present

VOLUME 34 | NUMBER 2 | Summer/Fall 2025

ON OUR COVER:

The Illinois Wesleyan University archives, housed on the fourth floor of The Ames Library, holds many artifacts of IWU history, including the original university charter and a gold medal awarded to John Marden, clas of 1909, for his breakthrough work in atomic science and engineering.

18 175 Years of Illinois Wesleyan University. Celebrate IWU's history with a timeline of the last 175 years of our community's milestones.

26 Alumni Award Winners. Meet our Award Winners John Camardella '03, Natalie Lalagos '12, and Carol Willis '68.

Advanced Biodegradable Antimicrobial Coatings By Combining Biopolymers And Natural Antimicrobials For The Active Packaging And Extending The Shelf-Life Of Fish And Other Seafood Products: A Review, Hariharan S. Melarcode, Onur Ertugrul, Paola C. Alzate Calderon, Joseph P. Kerry, Michael A. Morris

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Fish and other seafood products are an integral and valuable part of human diets. In advanced nations, the transportation of fish and other seafood products to customers requires packaging and display. Due to their intrinsic physicochemical properties, seafood products are particularly susceptible to microbial growth, resulting in shorter shelf lives and higher spoilage rates compared to other animal-derived proteins, such as meat. To prevent microbial spoilage and preserve the freshness and quality of fish and other seafood products, petroleum-based plastic materials are commonly used in combination with packaging technologies, such as vacuum packaging and modified atmosphere packaging. However, as these …

Autologous T Cell Therapy For Prame, Martin Wermke, Dejka M Araujo, Manik Chatterjee, Apostolia M Tsimberidou, Tobias A W Holderried, Amir A Jazaeri, Ran Reshef, Carsten Bokemeyer, Winfried Alsdorf, Katrin Wetzko, Peter Brossart, Katrin Aslan, Linus Backert, Sebastian Bunk, Jens Fritsche, Swapna Gulde, Silvana Hengler, Norbert Hilf, Mohammad B Hossain, Jens Hukelmann, Mamta Kalra, Delfi Krishna, M Alper Kursunel, Dominik Maurer, Andrea Mayer-Mokler, Regina Mendrzyk, Ali Mohamed, Karine Pozo, Arun Satelli, Marilena Letizia, Heiko Schuster, Oliver Schoor, Claudia Wagner, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Carsten Reinhardt, Harpreet Singh-Jasuja, Steffen Walter, Toni Weinschenk, Jason J Luke, Cedrik M Britten

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

In contrast to chimeric antigen receptor T cells, T cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cells can target intracellular tumor-associated antigens crucial for treating solid tumors. However, most trials published so far show limited clinical activity. Here we report interim data from a first-in-human, multicenter, open-label, 3 + 3 dose-escalation/de-escalation phase 1 trial studying IMA203, an autologous preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma (PRAME)-directed TCR T cell therapy in HLA-A*02+ patients with PRAME+ recurrent and/or refractory solid tumors, including melanoma and sarcoma. Primary objectives include the evaluation of safety and tolerability and the determination of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended dose …

Psychosocial Supports For The Physical And Mental Health Of Youth With Autism And Other Neurodevelopmental Disabilities., Melissa Campbell, Elizabeth Hastings, Paige Mcardle, Darren Olsen, Kathryn Benton, Cy Nadler

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

One in six youth has a neurodevelopmental disability (NDD), and autism diagnostic rates continue to rise. Before and after a diagnosis, families need trusted sources of guidance to navigate co-occurring medical and psychological conditions, and to manage unique stressors including transition to adulthood. However, medical professionals from all specialty areas struggle to identify resources to support the complex psychosocial and healthcare needs of these patients and their families. This primer on psychosocial supports for youth with autism will explore the major mental and physical health stressors faced by affected youth and families, and discuss opportunities for primary care and other …