Richard P. Rood, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, gave the opening keynote address at the United Ostomy Association of America’s national conference Aug. 7 in Philadelphia. His talk was titled “My life as a nearly 50-year-ostomate. How ostomy care has matured in the […]
Caline Mattar, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been appointed a chair of the Expert Advisory Group for the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub. Based in Germany, the organization formed in May 2018 to pool international resources to […]
Since chikungunya virus emerged in the Americas in 2013, it has infected millions of people, causing fever, headache, rash, and muscle and joint pain. For some people, painful, debilitating arthritis lasts long after the other symptoms have resolved. Researchers have suspected that the virus or its genetic material – in this case, RNA – persist […]
Dr. Mohammed joined the Department of Medicine as an instructor in the Division of Hospital Medicine in July 2019. He received his MD in 2010 from University of Duhok College of Medicine in Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Through a prestigious, merit-based scholarship he attended Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice […]
Dr. Gregory Ogunnowo joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July, 2019. Dr. Gregory Ogunnowo was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Georgia State University Honors College and graduated Summa Cum Laude, with Research Honors Distinction, and Distinction in […]
Janice L. Hanson, Ph.D., Ed.S., M.H., is Director of Education Scholarship Development in the Office of Education, Washington University School of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine. She joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Medical Education in January, 2019. Dr. Hanson is also Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School […]
Dr. Luigi Adamo joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Instructor in July, 2019. Dr. Adamo is a heart failure specialist and a basic scientist committed to excellence and innovation. After graduating from University of Palermo School of Medicine in Italy, he moved to Boston where he obtained a PhD […]
The Department of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development welcomed new faculty on Wednesday, August 28 with an orientation session followed by an institutional resource fair featuring representatives from a variety of centers, cores and resources within WUSM. Attendees had the opportunity to network with their fellow DOM colleagues while learning more about the many resources […]
Dr. Patrick Grierson joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Grierson’s main research objective is to improve outcomes in difficult to treat malignancies by identifying novel molecular targets that mediate de novo or acquired resistance to current therapies. His pre-clinical research focuses on pancreatic […]
Dr. Thomas W. Hoyt joined the Department of Medicine as an Instructor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in July 2019. He was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri. He acquired a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri in 2009. He attended Washington University […]
Dr. Aaloke Mody joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Mody completed his infectious diseases fellowship in the Division of HIV, ID, and Global Medicine at UCSF. He completed his undergraduate training at UC Berkeley and then went to Duke University for medical […]
Dr. Dominique S. Williams joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Assistant Professor on September 1, 2019. Dr. Williams received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston and a Doctor of Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 2012. She completed her internal medicine training […]
Washington University investigators at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been awarded a $15 million grant to better understand the genetic changes that drive acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a deadly blood cancer, and predict patients’ responses to therapy. The findings also may enable investigators to develop more […]
A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis supports evidence that children with mild asthma can effectively manage the condition by using their two inhalers — one a steroid and the other a bronchodilator — when symptoms occur. This is in contrast to the traditional method of using the steroid daily, […]
Antibiotics are known to upset the balance of bacteria in the intestinal tract. In some cases, antibiotics can cause the bacterium Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) to overgrow wildly, causing diarrhea and, in severe cases, life-threatening intestinal inflammation. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found the molecular signature of a healthy gut microbial […]
Heidi Tastet joines the Department of Medicine in the Division of Medical Education as an Instructor on September 4, 2019. Dr. Tastet earned her undergraduate degree in Clinical Lab Science from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan in 2002. She went on to receive her medical degree from Loma Linda School of Medicine in 2008. […]
Dr. Joseph Rimando joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Medical Education as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Joseph was born in Vidalia, Georgia and grew up in Warner Robins, Georgia, where he attended Warner Robins High School. He obtained a bachelors degree in microbiology with a minor in music at the […]
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Department of Medicine newsletter, The DOM Insider. In this Issue: Letter from the Chair, Divisional Spotlight, EPIC Update, Research News, Clinical News, Education News, Faculty Updates, Awards/Grants/Etc., Trainee Updates, OUTMed, and Giving
Dr. Sandeep Sodhi joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Sodhi was born and raised in Danville, IL. He received his undergraduate degree from Saint Louis University. Dr. Sodhi earned his M.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Illinois. His postgraduate training was […]
Dr. Roland Njei joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Njei was born in Batibo, North West Region of Cameroon and immigrated to the Chicagoland area in 2006. His journey to medicine was a non-traditional one. After living and working in China for […]
Dr. Zhen Ren joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Immunology as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Ren studied clinical medicine at Shanghai Tong Ji University, China. Fascinated by the cutting-edge bioscience research in the United States, she joined the Biochemistry Ph.D program in August 2006 at the Graduate […]
Dr. Bria Giacomino joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Giacomino’s decision to specialize in cardiac critical care is not a common pathway, although she believes that this is a specialty that will continue to grow and this combination of cardiology and critical […]
Dr. Elvin Geng joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as a Professor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Geng earned MD and MPH degrees from Columbia University and subsequently completed post-doctoral training through the Aaron Diamond AIDS Institute (posted in Kunming, China) as well as fellowship training in infectious diseases at […]
Dr. Melissa Berrien-Elliott joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an Instructor on August 1, 2019. Dr. Elliott’s research uses translational approaches to understand how natural killer (NK) cells are impacted by cancer immunotherapies and how the tumor microenvironment contributes to immune evasion. In order to achieve this, she works closely […]
Dr. Adam May joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. As an Illinois native, Dr. May grew up in close proximity to St. Louis in Champaign-Urbana. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, IL and medical education at Loyola […]
Dr. Joseph Ransdell joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Ransdell’s goals as a researcher are to determine the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie and regulate neuronal firing and determine how these mechanisms are affected by diseases that affect membrane excitability. Dr. Ransdell […]
Dr. James White joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. James White completed his Bachelor’s of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Albany, State University of New York in 2005. As an undergraduate, James conducted research at Albany Medical […]
Dr. Anubha Mutneja joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Mutneja received her MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College, New-Delhi, India. She subsequently completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Florida where she won the Research Day Award in the medical […]
Dr. Kathleen Zhang joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Zhang specializes in the cardiovascular care of patients with cancer and cardiac amyloidosis. Many cancer treatments such as radiation, chemotherapy, targeted monoclonal antibodies, and immunotherapy have cardiovascular toxicities that require directed therapy and/or […]
Physicians at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been awarded a six-year, $7.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to play a leading role in designing, conducting and enrolling patients in clinical trials through the NCI’s National Clinical Trials Network. The funding acknowledges Siteman’s continued […]
Dr. Namrata Patel joined the department of Medicine in the Division of Medical Education as an Instructor on June 10, 2019. Dr. Patel has been passionate about trying to help her community ever since she can remember. She completed her medical degree at The University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis, where she co-founded […]
Dr. Haris Murad joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Murad received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (M.B.; B.S. from Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan in 2012. After one year as a research associate in pediatric rheumatology, Dr. Murad then moved […]
Dr. Joshua Dearborn joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an Instructor on June 1, 2019. Dr. Dearborn is a behavioral neuroscientist with training in molecular biology. His research interests revolve around the neurobiology and etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. He has a strong background in the application of rodent models in […]
Dr. Bruce Rosa joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases Division as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Rosa received his PhD in Biotechnology from Lakehead University (Canada), which included a two-year visiting scientist appointment studying bioinformatics approaches to analyzing circadian rhythm at Michigan State University. He joined Dr. […]
Dr. Alex Wagner joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Oncology as an Instructor on June 1, 2019. Dr. Wagner is interested in the development and application of open bioinformatics resources that enable precision medicine. His career interests are to run an academic laboratory overseeing the development of these tools and the analyses […]
Dr. Dharushana Muthulingam joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Muthulingam was born in London and grew up in the California desert. She received undergraduate training in both philosophy and molecular/cell biology at Berkeley. She went on to complete medical and public health […]
Dr. Christopher Rigell joined the Department of Medicine on July 1, 2019 as an Instructor in the Division of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Rigell completed his undergraduate studies in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Vanderbilt University prior to obtaining his MD from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama. He completed his […]
Dr. Brandon Kayser joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences as an Instructor on June 30, 2019. Dr. Kayser completed his Ph.D. in 2014 in Integrative and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Southern California. Using both longitudinal human cohorts and preclinical models, he investigated the role of obesity […]
Dr. Kangyun Wu joined the Department of Medicine in the Division pf Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Wu is a Senior Scientist in Dr. Michael Holtzman’s lab. He graduated from Huangzhong Agriculture University with a Bachelor of Science in Plant Protection in Wuhan, China in June 1998. […]
Dr. Colin Diffie joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Diffie is a native Texan, and dual majored in Psychology and Neurobiology at UT Austin, where he graduated summa cum laude. He then went to medical school at the University of Texas Health Science […]
Dr. Cristina Vazquez Guillamet joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Clinical practice: After finishing her training in critical care medicine (CCM) and Infectious Diseases (ID), Dr. Vazquez Guillamet started her waiver position at University of New Mexico where her clinical practice encompassed […]
Dr. Carlos Mejia joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. Dr. Mejia received his medical degree from Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala and later completed five years of internal medicine training at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid, Spain. After completing his residency, he […]
Dr. Jane O’Halloran joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases ans an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2019. Originally from Ireland, Dr O’Halloran studied medicine at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She completed Specialist Registrar training in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine in Ireland where she also did her PhD […]
Dr. Surachai Amornsawadwattana joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. A native of Thailand, he earned his medical degree from the Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, in Bangkok (1996-2002). After completing his 3-year internship at Thammasat University Hospital (2002-2005), he was recruited for his Internal Medicine […]
Dr. Osama Altayar joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology as an Instructor on July 1, 2019. He earned his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University, Syria (2004-2011). After completing his medical education, he joined the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota […]
Kory J. Lavine, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was nominated for the honor by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Three physician-scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Philip Budge, MD, PhD; Brian DeBosch, MD, PhD; and Andrew Kau, MD, PhD, are among 16 U.S. physician-scientists receiving the awards, which provide $495,000 over three years to each investigator. […]
Dr. Douglas L. Mann, the Tobias and Hortense Lewin Professor of Medicine, stepped down as Chief of the Cardiovascular Division effective May 1, 2019, in order to focus on his research and have more time with his family. Dr. Mann will stay here on the faculty and continue to play an important role as a clinician, […]
Pancreatic cancer is especially challenging to treat – only eight percent of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy are of limited benefit, and even immunotherapy – which revolutionized treatment for other kinds of cancer by activating the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells – has been largely ineffective because […]
Only a few cases of the newly discovered Bourbon virus have been reported, and two of them ended in death, partly because no specific treatments are available for the tick-borne illness. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified an experimental antiviral drug that cures mice infected with the potentially […]