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Release Date: 06/09/2025

Recent Presentations from the MATTERS Lab

Members of the MATTERS Lab have presented at multiple conferences recently.


Release Date: 06/09/2025

Dr. Alex Aaronson and Dr. Joey Cooper gave presentations at the annual meetings…

Cooper JJ, Invited Symposium, “Modern Day Lessons of the Great Sleepy Sickness Epidemic” (with Sheldon Benjamin and Delia Bakeman), Annual Meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 2025


Release Date: 06/09/2025

Geri Fox, MD, MHPE received the Distinguished Service Award for UICOM-Rockford.

Geri Fox, MD, MHPE received the 2025 Distinguished Service Award for UICOM-Rockford campus, where she has served as the Psychiatry Department Chair since 2018.


Release Date: 06/09/2025

Welcome 2025-2026 PGY-1 Psychiatry Residents

Dear Department of Psychiatry, I am delighted to welcome the UIC Psychiatry Residency Class of 2029, and the inaugural Combined Family Medicine-Psychiatry Class of 2030!


Release Date: 06/09/2025

Geri Fox, MD, MHPE was the invited keynote commencement speaker at medical…

Geri Fox, MD, MHPE was the invited keynote commencement speaker at medical school graduation, UICOM-Rockford campus, April 25, 2025. She has served as Professor and Psychiatry Department Chair on the Rockford Campus since 2018. 


Release Date: 06/09/2025

New Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS) Guardian…

All youth in care of the state of Illinois are required to have IDCFS consent for any psychotropic medication they are prescribed. There is a new user-friendly website called the IDCFS Guardian Consent Portal designed for the electronic submission of consent requests for youth in care.