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A ' ' These outcomes are a great achievement and are the result of dedication, long experience and a special combination of skills by a professional transplant team. CONSTRUCTION IN PEORIA A generous gift launches a new training facility '' NEW $25 MILLION train- ing and conference facility for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and OSF Saint Francis Medical Center was announced on Feb. 27. The funding, the largest individual donation in OSF HealthCare and UICOMP's his- tory, is from Jump Trading, a Chicago- based high frequency proprietary trading firm. The Jump Trading Simulation and Conference Education Center on the OSF campus will include the latest in technology to teach procedural skills, as well as provide space for team training and structured simulated patient encounters. Rooms for small group learning and a tiered audito- rium will allow for educational support services and distance learning. A collaborative group is working on programming needs for the new build- ing, and architectural and construction firms have been chosen. The goal is for a groundbreaking this fall. "The brightest and best physi- cians will be attracted by the opportu- nity to learn in a modern setting using the latest in technology and simulation equipment," says Sara Rusch, MD, UICOMP's regional dean. "This in turn will provide higher quality patient care and better patient outcomes. Jump Trading's remarkable gift will have a lasting impact on medical education and on our community." An artist rendering shows the plans for the new auditorium in the Jump Trading Simulation and Conference Education Center. T POINT OF PRIDE Medical center cited for best abdominal transplantation survival rates in Chicago THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS MEDICAL CENTER has achieved the best one-year patient and graft survival rates in the Chicago area for adult kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation, as well as ranked first in one-year patient survival and second in one-year graft survival for liver transplantation. At or above the national average, the one-year patient survival rates were 100 percent for kidney-pancreas transplantation, 98 percent for kidney transplantation and 89 percent for liver transplanta- tion. The one-year graft survival rates were 100 percent for kidney- pancreas transplantation, 96 percent for kidney transplantation and 85 percent for liver transplantation. Enrico Benedetti, MD, Warren H. Cole Chair and head of surgery at UIC, attributes the successful results to many fac- PHOTO: MIKE MCCAFREY tors. "We have a team of surgeons with excellent surgical skills and judgment, a dedicated inpatient transplant unit with highly skilled nursing, support from doctors of pharmacy who specialize in transplantation, and close cooperation between trans- plant surgeons and an excellent team of hepatologists for liver transplantation," he says. The statistics, based on transplants performed at the medical center between January 2006 and June 2008, were released last summer by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a national database of transplantation statistics col- lected from hospitals and organ procurement organizations across the country. "These outcomes are a great achievement and are the result of dedication, long experience and a special combination of skills by a professional transplant team," says José Oberholzer, MD, chief of transplantation surgery at UIC. "Historically, UIC has offered treatment to patients of all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, and we are the last resort for many of the sickest patients in the Midwest, and, in some cases, the nation." I L L INOI S MEDICINE | 9

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