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He was born and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry/ Biochemistry and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR in 2011. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR in 2015 and completed his […]

Joseph Cherabie is originally from Denver, Colorado.  He lived 12 years in Lebanon where he completed his high school as well as his undergraduate and medical school at the American University of Beirut. During medical school, he worked within the International Federation of Medical Student’s Associations and served as the Director of Sexual and Reproductive […]

Laura R. Marks received her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Spanish from Pacific Union College, California. She completed her MD, PhD at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences through the Medical Scientist Training Program. Her PhD training occurred in the laboratory of Dr. Anders Hakansson in the department of Microbiology and […]

Following her residency in internal medicine, Dr. Kapuria was deeply affected by her interactions with liver disease patients, and eventually decided to explore this aspect of the field in order to better assist them. Backed by her considerable expertise, she excelled as a gastroenterology fellow with the University of New Mexico. With a plethora of […]

Dr. Adora Chinenye Nwankwo became a member of the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June 2021. She was born in the nation’s capital and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland. She attended Cornell University and graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology. After graduating she […]

Dr. Shiyuan Anabeth Liu joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in June 2021. She was born in northeastern China and moved to western Massachusetts when she was nine. She attended Dartmouth College and graduated magna cum laude with Honors in neuroscience in 2014. She was inducted into […]

Dr. Nada Zmeter joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in July 2021. She grew up in Lebanon and attended both college and medical school at the American University of Beirut: she initially earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Biology in 2012, then graduated with a Medical […]

Dr. Shannon Zalewski joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine in July of 2021. She was born in Madison, WI and grew up in a suburb of Chicago. She attended Purdue University where she initially enrolled in the pre-pharmacy program, but ultimately decided to pursue a career in medicine. She […]

Dr. Elizabeth Terry (Beth) joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2021. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama and thereafter moved to Sylacauga, Alabama where she grew up. She attended the University of Alabama and graduated summa cum laude from the University Honors Program […]

Dr. Elizabeth Tapley Rosenthal joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2021. She was born in Portland, Maine and soon after moved to Austin, Texas. She considers herself to be a true Texan. She attended Concordia University in Irvine, California and graduated with a […]

Sales of antibiotics soar as threat of drug-resistant bacteria worsens

Dr. Zain Raza joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2021. He grew up in Edmond, Oklahoma just north of Oklahoma City. He attended Washington and Lee University in Virginia and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Bachelor […]

Dr. Alyssa Renee Moller joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in July 2021. She was born in Los Angeles, California and moved to the Chicago area shortly thereafter, where she spent the remainder of her childhood. She attended college at Washington University in St. Louis and […]

Dr. Jeffrey Marinshaw joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an instructor in June 2021. He grew up in Chapel Hill, NC before attending Washington University in St. Louis where he was a Dieckmann Scholar. He graduated summa cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Classics in 2012 and […]

Dr. Sonya Liu joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2021. She was born in Arkansas prior to moving to St. Louis where she spent most of her childhood. Her family then moved to Pocatello, Idaho, which she now proudly calls home. She returned to […]

Dr. Emily Mattoon joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2021. She was born in Mountain View, California and soon after moved to San Diego. She attended Duke University and graduated cum laude in 2013 with a major in Biology and minors in Chemistry and […]

Effective against blood cancers, natural killer cells also may be effective against solid tumors

Vaccines likely induce strong, persistent immunity to COVID-19

Dr. James McMenimen joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2021. He was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. During his studies, he was able to spend a summer as an AMGEN scholar, conducting organic chemistry research […]

Dr. Alex Ryan Lane joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2021. He grew up in Southern Illinois and attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for his undergraduate degree. He graduated with honors and highest distinction in Psychology in 2011. After college, he worked as […]

Combination therapies appear to prevent emergence of drug resistance

Dear colleagues,  Juneteenth is an important day in the history of the United States. On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, Major General Gordon Grander announced the end of the Civil War and that the enslaved were free. This announcement, however, came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.  As many enslavers continued […]

Retrospective study also indicates outcomes of critically ill patients in ICU improve when given antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients

It is my pleasure to announce that Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, MHM, will be joining Washington University School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine as the new Chief for the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Williams is being recruited from the University of Kentucky, where he is currently the Chief Quality and Transformation Officer […]

Program supports doctors who want to conduct basic science research

It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Timothy Ley, the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Chair in Oncology, Professor of Medicine and of Genetics and Director of the Section of Stem Cell Biology in the Division of Oncology has joined the leadership team of the Oliver Langenberg Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) as […]

Targeted therapy shrank tumors, shows promise in improving survival

Nanofiber device allows insulin to be released while defending against immune cells

Such data now available to university researchers, could help speed research

Physician-scientist was a pioneer in mass spectrometry research