With over 760 full-time faculty members, the Department of Medicine faculty are not only active clinicians, researchers and educators at the School of Medicine. They are recognized nationally and internationally for their efforts to advance research discoveries and improve human health, here in the St. Louis region and around the world.
National appointments and honors
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ICTS Announces 2026-2027 CTRFP Awardees (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to Hilary E.L. Reno, MD, PhD and Mengcheng Shen, PhD for being among the awardees. The WashU Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital have awarded 22 investigators as part of the 19th annual Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program (CTRFP).
Danielle Cicka, MD, PhD, Receives 2025 HIP Resident Award (Links to an external site)
Danielle Cicka, MD, PhD, a resident physician at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 HIP Resident Award.
Odeny selected for a Winn Clinical Investigator Leadership Award
Award is a three-year professional and leadership development program designed to help early-career clinical investigators Thomas Odeny, MD, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, member of the School for Public Health secondary faculty, has been selected for a Winn Clinical Investigator Leadership Award. This competitive three-year program, supported by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation […]
Vermette announced as Macy Faculty Scholar
National foundation dedicated solely to improving the education of health professionals. David Vermette, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, and Pediatrics, Division of Hospital Medicine, was announced as one of five Macy Faculty Scholars. The Macy Faculty Scholars Program, now in its second decade, is dedicated to […]
2026 Dean’s Impact Award Recipients
The 2026 theme is “Honoring the Focused Excellence of Exemplary Clinicians and Researchers.“ Recipients of the Dean’s Impact Awards represent the compassion, innovation, and commitment required to build dynamic, meaningful, and community-focused efforts to improve clinical care, education, and research. Congratulations to:
2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctors®
The Department of Medicine is proud to announce that 170 of our faculty have been selected for the 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® list. The Top Doctors® selection process is entirely merit-based. Doctors cannot pay to be listed. These doctors are best-in-class healthcare providers, embodying excellence in clinical care as well as interpersonal skills. More […]
Jeffrey R. Millman, PhD – Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Endocrinology
It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Jeffrey R. Millman is being appointed as the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Endocrinology in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research of the Department of Medicine at WashU Medicine. Dr. Millman is a distinguished scientist who discovered the process for converting human […]
Dr. Kevin Hurtado Selected for Induction into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (Links to an external site)
Kevin Hurtado, PhD, a postdoctoral research scholar in the laboratory of Leslie Gewin, MD, has been selected for induction into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, a national honor recognizing exceptional scholarship, leadership, and a commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education.