I’m delighted to announce the following new Section Chiefs at the John Cochran VA Medical Center.
Dr. Greg Sayuk has been selected as the new Section Chief of Gastroenterology at the John Cochran VAMC!
Gregory S. Sayuk, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, and Professor, Department of Psychiatry at WashU Medicine. He completed his medical school training at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School in 2000 and his Internal Medicine residency training at WashU in 2003.
During this time, he served as the WashU Chief Resident at the St. Louis VA. He continued his Gastroenterology fellowship training at WashU, and completed a Master’s degree in Public Health (Biostatistics/Epidemiology) at Saint Louis University. Upon completion of his fellowship in 2006, Dr. Sayuk joined the WashU Medicine GI Division faculty, and was the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award. He later served as the Associate Program Director of the GI Fellowship Training, and was twice named Professor of the Year by the WashU Medicine GI fellows. In 2012, Dr. Sayuk joined the GI Section at the St. Louis VA Health Care System (STLVAHCS), where he is the Site Director for GI Training, and the Director of the GI Motility Laboratory. He also previously has served as a member of the STLVAHCS Medical Executive Board and Chair of the Bylaws Committee. He is currently Chair of the Designing Treatment Trials in DGBI section of the ROME V Manual. He is a Council Member and Treasurer of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society, and recently was recognized as the 2024 St. Louis VA Top Doc. Dr. Sayuk’s clinical and research interests are primarily in disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI), such as irritable bowel syndrome, with a particular focus on the influence of comorbid non-GI pain syndromes (e.g., fibromyalgia) and psychiatric diagnoses on DGBI symptom expression and treatment responses.
Dr. Robert White has been selected as the new Section Chief of Neurology at the John Cochran VAMC!
Robert L. White, MD, PhD obtained his MD and PhD degrees at Washington University as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). He completed residency in Neurology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and fellowship in movement disorders and behavioral neurology at UCSF and the San Francisco VA Parkinson Disease Research Education and Clinic Center (PADRECC).
He joined the faculty at WashU at the St. Louis VA in 2017. He currently directs the PADRECC-affiliated site at the St. Louis VA and provides care to veterans with Parkinson Disease and other movement disorders. He conducts research on PD in the Neuroscience Imaging Laboratories at WashU, using advanced MRI and PET imaging methods to develop objective brain imaging measures of disease severity and progression in PD. His current VA-funded research aims to identify and validate MRI and PET biomarkers of neuroinflammation in PD. He is also the site PI for VA- and foundation-sponsored multicenter studies of veterans with PD.