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| 23 Oct 2025 | |
| Newsroom |
Evelyn Figueroa, MD co-founder of the Pilsen Food Pantry was featured in the New York Times on Oct. 19 and CBS2 Chicago News on Oct. 20.
Steven Rothschild, MD, the 2024 IAFP Vincent D. Keenan Servant Leader Award, authored an October 7 Chicago Tribune letter to the editor that recapped his personal experience at the Oct 3 peaceful protest in Broadview outside of the U.S. immigration detention center
The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford and their Family Medicine Residency Program welcomed two fourth year medical students Cheyenne Carr and Laura Berger as they joined the Family Medicine Integrated Residency program. They will be working directly with the residency program during their last year of medical school and then be ranked to match into the residency next year. The program launched in 2023 and also provides a stipend to the selected students to help with medical school costs.
Media coverage includes Carr, Berger and residency program director Dr. Rhonda Verzal.
WIFR-TV Rockford WTVO-TV Rockford Rock River Current
Dr. Rhonda Verzal and the Rockford Residency Program were featured on WIFR-TV Rockford with the announcement of a new federal grant for street medicine in a cross campus collaborations with UIC Family Medicine Residency in Chicago. The University of Illinois College of Medicine will train family medicine residents to deliver tailored care to unhoused and underserved populations in low-resource, non-traditional settings in Rockford, rural northern Illinois and Chicago, thanks to a $2.5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford Department of Family and Community Medicine, in collaboration with its counterpart in Chicago, will receive this federal funding for its Primary Care Training and Enhancement-Residency Training in Street Medicine Project over five years to train 34 family medicine residents per year in comprehensive street medicine.
Welcome home to Morrison, Dr. Trever Troutman! Fresh off residency graduation from McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Delnor he's now on staff at Morrison Community Hospital and welcoming existing and new patients of all ages. This WIXN Radio podcast reintroduces him to his hometown now as Dr. Trevel Troutman, family physician.
JoAnn Archey, MD was featured in the Sept. 23 Champaign News-Gazette for her faith and service to the community.
Whitney Lyn, MD from Cook County Health appeared live on WGN-TV Daytime Chicago on August 6th covering a range of back to school health topics.
