Sergio Rabinovich, MD, Endowment

All donations given in memory of Dr. Sergio Rabinovich will support the Sergio Rabinovich, MD, Endowment in the Dept. of Internal Medicine at SIU School of Medicine. The fund will promote excellence in teaching residents.

Planned uses of the endowment include hosting a nationally recognized visiting professor, providing funds for residents to travel to professional conferences, bestowing an award for the best clinical presentation at the department's Grand Rounds and honoring an outstanding senior resident.

Dr. Rabinovich, a native of Lima, Peru, joined SIU in 1973, shortly after the school was created. He became chairman and residency director of the Department of Medicine in 1974. Dr. Rabinovich retired in 1996, but continued to contribute to the school through various committees and consulting activities in the years that followed. He was relentlessly active in supporting the residents' learning, keeping an office on campus in recent years and joining for Ground Round presentations whenever able.

During his career, Dr. Rabinovich was active in more than ten professional associations and published dozens of articles and abstracts. With his wife, Nelly, he raised four children, who all have entered health care related fields. Despite his busy schedule, Dr. Rabinovich always reached out to residents in training, even inviting them over to share Thanksgiving dinner with his family.

His leadership and deep commitment to resident teaching left a profound impession with all who encountered him.