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GET CONNECTED with Illinois Medicine Today The University of Illinois College of Medicine's eNewsletter The University of Illinois College of Medicine eNewsletter comes directly to your e-mail inbox. Illinois Medicine Today keeps alumni, faculty, residents and students in the loop. To request a subscription E-mail us at: comalumni@uic.edu READ ABOUT your fellow alumni—see where they are and what they're doing DISCOVER current medical research results from your alma mater LEARN news about advances in fields from cardiology to radiology GIVE BACK—find out how you can make a gift that can change the future of medicine deliver surgical skills training and create a surgical video repository to foster growth of the department. He designed and produced innovative teaching techniques, including international webinars, live surgical symposiums and online consulting and conferencing for the surgeons. '02 36 | WINT ER 2 011 Robert M. Abrams '93, MD, Res '02, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecol- ogy at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, has been named chief of the department's maternal–fetal medicine division. As SIU's division chief, he also was named director of the Springfield Prenatal Center, based at St. John's Hospital. He joined SIU's faculty in 2007 after completing a three-year fellowship in maternal–fetal medicine at Loyola Uni- versity Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. Previously, he was in private practice in Chicago for two years. Abrams is board-certified in obstetrics and gyne- cology and in maternal–fetal medicine and is a fellow of the American Col- lege of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society for Maternal–Fetal Medicine. '05 Pooja J. Shah '01, MD '05, Res '09, is an obstetrician and gy- necologist at Mountain Vista Women's Care in Mesa, Ariz. Previously, Shah par- ticipated in numerous health-related research studies at Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Hospital and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. '08 Malini Dandu, MD, Res '08, is a family practice physician and obstetrician who joined the Newton Clinic in Newton, Iowa. Last spring, she com- pleted a fellowship in high-risk obstetrics at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif. Dandu is certified by the Neonatal Resuscitation Program, and also in the areas of advanced life support in obstetrics, advanced trauma life support and advanced cardiac life support. She has been involved in the World Health Organization's measles eradication program and the National Pulse Polio Immunization Program. Her husband worked as a general surgeon in India and intends to resume his medical practice in Iowa. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, tennis, ping pong, traveling, Indian dance and learning vari- ous languages. '09 Pelagia Kouloum- beris, MD, Res '09, recently joined the Neurosciences Institute at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill. While serving as chief resident during her time at the University of Illinois Medical Center, she gained extensive training and experience in general neurosurgery, with a concen- tration in vascular neurosurgery, spine pathology and pediatric neurosurgery. Kouloumberis is among the 6 percent of female neurosurgeons in the nation, and as the mother of a toddler, she hopes she will serve as an example to other young women who are considering neurosurgery as a specialty.