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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Academy of Science-St. Louis honors three researchers (Links to an external site)
Three researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are being honored for their outstanding contributions to science by the Academy of Science-St. Louis. Raj Jain, David Kirk and Stuart Kornfeld will be honored April 5 at a dinner at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Award recipients were nominated by their peers in the scientific community in […]
Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD receives 2017 Innovator Award (Links to an external site)
Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, is among 13 recipients to receive Kenneth Rainin Foundation “Innovator Awards”. The foundation has awarded $3 million for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) research through its Innovator Awards program. Grants will support an international pool of early-career and seasoned researchers to study untested ideas that could lead to […]
Distinguished Faculty Awards 2018
Alan C. Braverman, MD – Distinguished Clinician Award Angela L. Brown, MD – Distinguished Community Service Award Victor G. Davila-Roman, MD – Distinguished Educator Award, Mentoring of Junior Faculty Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD – Distinguished Educator Award, Graduate Medical Education/Residents or Clinical Fellows Mark S. Sands, PhD – Distinguished Educator Award, Postdoctoral Research Mentoring Sabrina […]
Rupa Patel Earns St. Louis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Award
Medical School faculty named to National Academy of Inventors (Links to an external site)
Noted innovators Samuel Achilefu, PhD, David Holtzman, MD, and Eric Leuthardt, MD – faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis – have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The 2017 class of NAI fellows was announced Tuesday. They are recognized as fellows for demonstrating innovation in creating and facilitating […]
Dr. Sabrina Nunez selected as a 2017 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Award recipient
Dr. Sabrina Nunez, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Medical Education Division of the Department of Medicine was selected by Erika, C. Crouch, MD, PhD, chair, Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education selection committee and the entire selection committee as a 2017 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards recipient. Goldstein Leadership Awards are […]
Installation of Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi
Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, MD (Endocrinology/Metabolish/Lipid Research) was installed as the inaugural Philip E. and Carolyn E. Cryer Professor of Medicine on November 13, 2017.
Installation of Dr. Weilbaecher
Katherine N. Weilbaecher, MD was installed as the Oliver M. Langenberg distinguished Professor of the Science and Practice of Medicine on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. Dr. Weilbaecher is a Professor of Medicine and of Cell Biology and Physiology and of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of […]