Welcome to the SSCI

Welcome to the website of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI). As stated in its mission and vision statements, the SSCI is a regional academic society dedicated to the advancement of medically-related research. Its major focus, however, is on encouraging students and post-graduate trainees (residents and fellows) to enter academic medicine and to support junior faculty success in clinical investigation. The SSCI is committed to diversity and inclusion in our organization as stated in our Diversity and Inclusion Statement.

This mission is accomplished through sponsorship of the Southern Regional Meeting and publication of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Both venues are committed to helping young investigators, providing them with avenues for scientific expression that is the essence of academic medicine.

The AJMS, founded in 1820, is the second oldest medical journal in the United States, and is the official journal of the SSCI.

Accepting New Members!

With three classifications of membership, now is the time to join our mission of supporting and mentoring the next generation of academicians.

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President's Corner

SSCI's 2020 president is Don C. Rockey, MD. Dr. Rockey is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has authored more than 200 scientific papers dealing with GI-related topics and has presented many invited lectures at gastroenterology and hepatology symposia around the United States and throughout the world. With the SSCI, he has served on both the Publications and Finance Committees.