Dr. Priya Menon joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Priya Menon joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July 2023. She was born and raised in Kerala, India and graduated from Government Medical College, Thrissur. During her time at Government Medical College, she split her time volunteering at mass vaccination campaigns for underprivileged children, cervical […]

Dr. Amrullah Alsatli joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Amrullah Alsatli joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July 2023. Dr. Alsatli has been blessed by living with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. He was born in Germany and grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He graduated from Jordan University of Science and Technology […]

Dr. Mirjana Petrovic Elbaz joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Mirjana Petrovic Elbaz joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2023. She was born and raised in Negotin, Serbia where she graduated from high school in 2007. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in medical school at University of Belgrade, Serbia. She […]

Dr. Sana Ali Pirzada joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Sana Ali Pirzada joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2023. She was born in Lahore, Pakistan, where she attended Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College. She then completed her internship and residency at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, MO, before […]

Dr. Yash Shah joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Yash Shah joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2023. He was born in India and grew up in New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University with a major in Biotechnology and minor in Biochemistry and Bioscience Policy. During this time, he was selected […]

Dr. Sarakshi Majahan joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Sarakshi Mahajan joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July 2023. She was born and raised in Chandigarh, India. She completed her medical school degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. After graduating from medical school, she spent some time working on role of […]

Dr. Maun Baral joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Maun R. Baral joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2023. He was born in Nepal and graduated medical school with Distinction from the Kathmandu University of School of Medical Sciences. During medical school, he served on the administrative and curriculum committee, which enabled […]

Dr. Geneva Guarin joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Geneva E. Guarin joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July 2023. She completed her undergraduate studies with a degree in Bachelor of Sciences in Health Sciences and graduated cum laude at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines with a full scholarship grant. Soon […]

Dr. Yazan Al Jabiri joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Yazan Al Jabiri joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2023. He was born and raised in Jordan. He received his medical degree in 2016 from Jordan University of Science and Technology. He started his internal medicine residency in Jordan but later moved to […]

Dr. Patrick Mazi joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Patrick Mazi joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor as of July 2023. He graduated from medical school at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He completed internal medicine residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He completed two clinical fellowships at Washington University in St […]

Dr. Tyler Degener joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Tyler Degener joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor as of July 2023. Dr. Degener has completed his medical training in various different cities across the country, including upstate New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Denver. He prides himself on the breadth of different experiences gained […]

Dr. Ashutosh Kumar joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Ashutosh Kumar joined the Department of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division as an instructor as of July 2023. He has completed his MSc degree in Biotechnology from the Utkal University in India. He received his PhD degree in Life Sciences from the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), affiliated with Homi Bhabha […]

Dr. Donald Hong joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Donald Hong joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor as of July 2023. Dr. Hong is the Associate Medical Director of the St. Louis County Sexual Health Clinic and a faculty member within the St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center. Dr. Hong specializes in HIV and […]

Dr. Xiuting Liu joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Xiuting Liu joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an instructor as of July 2023. She is a young scientist passionate about the field of cancer immunology and will significantly benefit from this training program. She has strong interest in t cancer immunology and cell. During her study as a […]

Dr. Safa Farrag joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Safa Farrag joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Assistant Professor in July 2023. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up between Egypt and Iraq. She graduated from Tanta University, Egypt in 2005 with an MBBS degree. After graduation, she completed three years of intensive care […]

Dr. Arafat Ali Farooqui joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Arafat Ali Farooqui joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2023. He was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. He attended the King Edward Medical University Lahore and graduated with honors in 2015. He was the recipient of different scholarships during his educational career. […]

Dr. Kieran Patel joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Kieran Patel joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July 2023. He was born and raised in Wilmington, DE and attended the University of Delaware where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. Dr. Patel then attended Drexel University College of Medicine where he received […]

Dr. Lyndon Lee joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Lyndon Lee joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an instructor in July of 2023. He was born and raised in Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering. He further pursued and completed a Master of […]

Dr. Lauren Baker joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Lauren L. Baker joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences as an instructor as of July 2023. Dr. Baker earned her PhD in healthcare ethics from Saint Louis University. Her doctoral work centered on the intersection of pediatric ethics and philosophy of medicine, with a special interest in gender […]

Dr. Alexander Everhart joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Alexander O. Everhart joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences as an instructor as of July 2023. He received his PhD in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration with an emphasis in Health Economics from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Washington University School of Medicine in […]

Dr. Max Petersen joins the Department of Medicine

Max Peterson, MD, PhD

Dr. Max Petersen joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research as an Instructor as of July 2023. Dr. Petersen was born in Evanston, IL and grew up in the Chicago area. He majored in biochemistry, religion, and pre-medical studies at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, and then […]

Dr. David Vermette joins the Department of Medicine

David Vermette, MD

David Vermette joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics as an assistant professor as of July 2023. He attended medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern and obtained an MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas. He completed his residency in Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at […]

Dr. Jason Saliba joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Jason Saliba joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an instructor as of July 2023. He was the first full-time editor of the Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer (CIViC) knowledgebase (civicdb.org), which is an open access, open source, community-driven web resource for the curation of somatic variant evidence. Dr. […]

Dr. Michael Iglesia joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Michael Iglesia joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an instructor as of July 2023. Advances in the treatment of solid tumors are dependent on our understanding of their intricate substructure and how tumors relate to their environment. His research is focused on applying bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing as […]

Dr. Michael Slade joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Michael Slade joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an Assistant Professor as of July 2023. Dr. Slade did his undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia, where he graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy in 2011. He subsequently matriculated at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. While […]

Dr. Zhenlu Chong joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Zhenlu Chong joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an instructor as of July of 2023. He is from Hengshui, Hebei, China. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Huazhong Agriculture University in Wuhan, China. During his masters, Zhenlu worked on how melatonin and follistatin regulates apoptosis and […]

Dr. David Russler-Germain joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. David Russler-Germain joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an instructor in July of 2023. He is a physician-scientist with research and clinical interests in hematologic malignancies, with a particular emphasis on B cell lymphomas. In the laboratory, his major focus is on follicular lymphoma pathogenesis. They are interested in […]

Dr. Zachary Crees joins the Department of Medicine

Zachary Crees, MD

Dr. Crees joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an Assistant Professor in July 2023.  In addition, Dr. Crees serves as the Assistant Clinical Director of the Washington University Center for Gene and Cellular Immunotherapy (CGCI).  Dr. Crees provides clinical care for patients with hematologic malignancies including Multiple Myeloma, Lymphoma and […]

Dr. Arvind Rengarajan joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Arvind Rengarajan joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology as an Assistant Professor in July 2023. He attended Washington University in St. Louis for medical school, internal medicine residency, chief residency, and general gastroenterology fellowship. He then completed his additional therapeutic endoscopy training at Northwestern University. Dr. Rengarajan is an interventional […]

Dr. Mohammad Aldiabat joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Mohammad Aldiabat joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June 2023. He was born and raised in Alramtha, Jordan and received his medical degree in 2018 from Jordan University of Science and Technology. During his time in medical school, Dr. Aldiabat served in the students’ academic […]

Dr. Alvin Jeon joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Alvin Jeon joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2023. He spent much of his childhood growing up in Long Island, New York. He graduated college at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2014. During […]

Dr. Michael Veshkini joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Michael Veshkini joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June 2023. He was born in Santa Monica and attended UCLA, where he graduated summa cum laude with Honors in Biology and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. During his undergraduate career, he participated in basic neuroscience […]

Dr. Lauren Van Buren joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Lauren Van Buren joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2023. She was born in Florida, but spent most of her childhood in Indianapolis, IN. She attended the University of Alabama and graduated summa cum laude and with University Honors in 2016 with a […]

Dr. Michelle Freilich joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Michelle Freilich joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2023. She was born in Orlando, Florida and grew up in Lake Mary, Florida. She attended the University of Florida and graduated cum laude in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a […]

Dr. Catherine Finneran joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Catherine Finneran joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in June 2023. An accomplished researcher and dedicated patient advocate, Dr. Finneran brings her specialized background in epidemiology and public health to the Department of Medicine. Prior to being awarded her Doctorate in Medicine from Emory University School […]

Dr. Elissa Arnold joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Elissa Arnold joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in June 2023. She was born and raised in Jefferson City, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO, where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Biological Sciences with a minor in Psychology. […]

Dr. Austin Niu joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Austin Jiazhi Niu joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in June of 2023. He was born in New Jersey and attended Washington University in St. Louis, graduating with a major in Biochemistry. During his undergraduate years he pursued basic science research in HIV. He then went […]

Dr. Benjamin Hoemann joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Benjamin Louis Hoemann joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in June of 2023. He was born in St. Louis, MO and raised in Washington, MO. He graduated from Valparaiso University in Indiana in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. He also completed […]

Dr. Danielle Kubicki joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Danielle Kubicki joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an instructor in June 2023. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. During university, she served […]

Dr. Brett Case joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Brett Case joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an instructor as of June 2023. Brett obtained his PhD in the laboratory of Mark R. Denison at Vanderbilt University where he studied the requirements of coronavirus capping, proofreading, and immune evasion. Upon joining the Diamond Laboratory in 2018, he […]

Dr. Luis Parra-Rodriguez joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Luis Parra-Rodriguez joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor as of June 2023. He developed his clinical foundation during medical school in Venezuela and spent one year as a general practitioner in rural medicine followed by a year-long hospital medicine internship. After completing a residency in […]

Dr. Lindsey Filiatreau joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Filiatreau joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an assistant professor as of May 2023. She is an epidemiologist whose research centers on 1) quantifying disparities in mental health, substance use, and HIV treatment outcomes among people with HIV in resource constrained settings; and 2) minimizing these disparities through […]

Dr. Mohamed Ramadan joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Mohamed Ramadan joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Assistant Professor in May 2023. He grew up in Libya and received his medical degree form Tripoli University, then he joined the university Department of Medicine as a teaching assistant, teaching fifth year medical students and participated in the […]

Dr. Shashwatee Bagchi joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Shashwatee Bagchi joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Associate Professor in April 2023. She received her medical degree from The Chicago Medical School, Illinois and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the […]

Dr. Yoshiharu Muto joins the Department of Medicine

Yoshiharu Muto, MD, PhD

Dr. Yoshiharu Muto joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology as an instructor in April 2023. He pursued PhD training at Kyushu University in Japan, where his PhD thesis work in the lab of Dr. Keiichi Nakayama focused on the cellular iron metabolism regulated by FBXL5-IRP2 axis. Through this work, he gained […]

Dr. Zyad Qamer joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Zyad Qamer joins the Department of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division as an Assistant Professor as of March 2023. Dr. Qamer received his undergraduate degree (BA) at New York University in economics, medical degree (MD) from Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Qamer completed an internal medicine residency at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital where he […]

Dr. Nathaniel Hogrebe joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Nathaniel Hogrebe joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research as an instructor in February 2023. Dr. Hogrebe grew up in the St. Louis, Missouri area. He moved to Ohio to continue his education, earning his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton in 2011 […]

Dr. Xiucui Ma joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Xiucui Ma joined the Department of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division as an assistant professor in February 2023. Dr. Ma received her PhD in 2006 from Zhejiang University through a joint program with Washington University School of Medicine, where she trained in molecular biology and gene therapy. After graduation, she pursued postdoctoral research training […]

Dr. Shibali Das joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Shibali Das joined the Department of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division as an instructor in February of 2023. She received her BSc and MSc degree in Microbiology from University of Calcutta Kolkata, India. She then pursued her doctoral degree in Bio-chemistry at Bose Institute, in collaboration with University of Calcutta. Her doctoral research focused on […]

Dr. Siqi Chen joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Siqi Chen joined the Department of Medicine in the division of Oncology as an instructor in January 2023.  Dr. Chen received her PhD degree from The University of Hong Kong before joining Dr. Li Ding’s lab at Washington University in St. Louis for her postdoc research training. As a graduate student, she studied multiple […]