Category: News

Dr. Daniel Ferguson joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Daniel Ferguson is an instructor for the Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences Division.  He earned a B.S. from Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA in 2006, he earned a PhD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC and is a postgraduate from Washington University School of Medicine in 2021.  Dr. Ferguson’s primary research […]

Dr. Amit Bery joins the Department of Medicine

Amit Bery, MD

Dr. Amit Bery attended medical school at Washington University School of Medicine during which time he worked in Dr. Susan Mackinnon’s lab focused on peripheral nerve injury. His work included performing microsurgery to inject rat tibial nerves with local anesthetics and perform assessments of muscle strength. This work led to his first basic science publication. […]

Dr. Dilan Patel joins the Department of Medicine

Dr. Patel’s clinical, research, and teaching interests include investigating the pathogenesis of malignant and non-malignant hematologic disorders. His studies are focused on better understanding mechanisms of disease as well as ways to prevent poor outcomes following hematopoietic cell transplant. While at Vanderbilt University, he worked with his co-mentor, Dr. Brian Engelhardt, on understanding the mechanisms […]

Dr. Mark Huffman joins the Department of Medicine

Mark Huffman, MD

In January 2022, Dr. Mark Huffman will join the Washington University School of Medicine as Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Global Health Center. He also has a secondary appointment at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of New South Wales and has previously served as the inaugural director of the […]

Message from the Chair (Links to an external site)

Victoria Fraser, MD

As 2021 comes to a close, it is a good time to reflect on everything we have accomplished together. Despite the ongoing challenges of COVID, resulting in more than five million deaths around the world, and the tremendous suffering in our community caused by social injustice, racial violence, and health inequity, we still have much […]

Washington University Clinic Builds Teamwork Through Retreat

Jennifer Schmidt, MD, clinic director at West County Complete Care Clinic

The Washington University Complete Care Clinic (WUCC) held a retreat for their clinical team including physicians, nurse practitioners, medical assistants, registered nurses, and clinical administration on Friday, December 10, 2021. Developed and led by Abby Spencer, MD, professor and vice chair for education in the Department of Medicine, the retreat featured a variety of activities including […]

Podcast: Omicron has arrived (Links to an external site)

This episode of ‘Show Me the Science’ looks at the new, highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, and how scientists are working to determine whether it evades vaccines and to identify strategies to stay safe

Washington University Team Wins Inaugural TL1 Debate, ‘Statin Wars’ (Links to an external site)

TLI Debate Team

Congratulations to Washington University TL1 trainees, Ameen Awad, Samuel Cortez, MD, Annahita Fotouhi, and Alexandra Zdonczyk for winning the inaugural TL1 Debate on November 9, 2021, defeating a team from the University of Michigan. The debate, a new event developed from an existing training exercise for TL1 trainees at Washington University in St. Louis, featured […]

Dr. Javan Kisaka joins the Department of Medicine

Javan Kisaka, PhD, is an instructor at the Division of Infectious Disease. He studies molecular basis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), specifically latent HIV reservoir and trying to better understand mechanisms of HIV replication in macrophages and resting CD4+T cells. He was born and raised in Kenya where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree […]

Director of Interventional Endoscopy

Vladimir Kushnir, MD

Dear Colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to announce that Vlad Kushnir, MD, has accepted the position of Director of Interventional Endoscopy effective December 1, 2021. Dr. Kushnir attended medical school at The Ohio State University and completed his internal medicine residency, GI fellowship and advanced interventional endoscopy training here at Washington University, joining the […]

Dr. Adriana Dusso joins the Department of Medicine

Adriana Dusso, PhD

Dr. Adriana Dusso is a Summa Cum Laude graduate in Biochemistry from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. In 1978, after a two-year fellowship in Clinical Biochemistry, she joined Dr. Puche´s laboratory in the Division of Biological Chemistry with a dual appointment: Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry for 2nd year medical students and PhD student […]

Leadership Announcement – Co-Chiefs, Division of Hematology

Elaine M. Majerus, MD, PhD (left) and Stephen T. Oh, MD, PhD

It is my pleasure to announce that Elaine M. Majerus, MD, PhD and Stephen T. Oh, MD, PhD, have been named co-Chiefs of the Division of Hematology in the Department of Medicine, effective December 1, 2021. Dr. Majerus will be responsible for the clinical operations, clinical research and clinical training aspects and Dr. Oh will be responsible for […]

Congratulations to Newly Elected IDSA Fellows (Links to an external site)

We are proud to announce the following faculty, each who have been named a Fellow by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the nation’s leading infectious diseases professional society. Fellowship in IDSA is one of the highest honors in the field of infectious diseases. 

Faculty and Trainees Attend Professional Development Conferences for Women in Medicine

The Department of Medicine, in an effort to support the professional development of women within the department, sponsored several faculty and trainees to attend virtual conferences, including the WIMSummit, September, 2021 and the Harvard Medical School Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare conference, November, 2021. Both conferences delivered a variety of professional […]

At the Intersection of Health Policy and Equity with Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH

Karen Joynt Maddox’s career as a health policy researcher sparked from an initial interest to affect change in the world around her. Today, Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, associate professor with the Cardiovascular Division and Co-Director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy at the Institute for Public Health at Washington University, is doing just […]

Undergraduate ASPIRE Program

Become a Summer Research Mentor Advanced Summer Program for Investigation and Research Education Clinical Research Mentors Needed! Students are admitted via a competitive application Fulltime, 3 credit program runs June 1 July 29, 2022 Students have 5 hours of weekly coursework in June (Fundamentals of Clinical and Translational Research) Students work fulltime in mentor’s lab […]