The Hektoen Institute of Medicine

The Institute manages many clinical research and program demonstration projects for affiliated agencies. The range of clinical research activities includes medical and behavioral interventions and clinical trials, as well as cohort, observational, and natural history studies. The Institute's program demonstration projects focus on novel, efficient, or efficacious methodologies of service delivery. These programs range from cost studies of substance abuse integration into The primary care model of an hiv clinic to a wide variety of new projects focusing on bioterrorism, among many others.

The Institute supports The training and educational mission of its affiliates. Most of The Institute's efforts in this category are made on behalf of The cook county health and hospital systems. The Institute's training grants focus on The education of faculty, fellows, and residents. The Institute participates in a variety of projects offering continuing medical education programs to The staff of The cook county health and hospital systems and to other medical providers in The community. The Institute has projects that focus on patient and community education for specific diseases or specific aspects of care.

The majority of The program delivery activities of The Institute are made on behalf of The cook county health and hospital systems, whose grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements are received by The Institute. The services administered are very wide ranging. The Institute's largest programs focus on health care for patients with hiv/aids. The Institute's other medical care delivery programs include many aspects of internal Medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, geriatrics, surgery, and support services such as laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy.