Department of Pediatrics
Toggle navigation
Home
Residency
Education
PSRP
Educational Programs
Weekly Schedule
Fellow Core Curriculum
Fellowships
Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine
Cardiology
Child Abuse Pediatrics
Clinical Informatics
Critical Care Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology & Diabetes
Fellowship Training Grants
Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Genetics & Genomic Medicine
Hematology & Oncology
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Hospital Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology, Hypertension & Pheresis
Newborn Medicine
Rheumatology & Immunology
Fellow Core Curriculum
Divisions
Academic Pediatrics
Adolescent Medicine
Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine
Cardiology
Critical Care Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology & Diabetes
Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Genetics & Genomic Medicine
Hematology & Oncology
Hospital Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology, Hypertension & Pheresis
Newborn Medicine
Rheumatology & Immunology
Other Services
Research
Patient Care
Patient Care Home
Adolescent Medicine
Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine
Cardiology
Critical Care Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology & Diabetes
Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Genetics & Genomic Medicine
Hematology & Oncology
Hospital Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Nephrology, Hypertension & Pheresis
Newborn Medicine
Rheumatology & Immunology
Phone Numbers
Office Locations
Virtual Tours
Faculty
Newsletter
Scott Saunders, M.D., Ph.D.
saunders_s@wustl.edu
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine
Newborn Medicine
phone: (314) 454-6148
Education
BS,
University of Minnesota
,
1983
MD,
Stanford University School of Medicine
,
1990
PhD,
Stanford University School of Medicine
,
1990
Training
Intern in Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
,
1990
-
1991
Resident in Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
,
1991
-
1993
Postdoc Fellow, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
,
1993
-
1995
Clinical Fellow in Newborn Medicine, Joint Program in Neonatology, Harvard Medical School
,
1993
-
1996
Certified Medical Transport Executive, AAMS Medical Transport Leadership Institute
,
2016
-
2017
Licensure and Board Certification
1980
Federal Aviation Administration, Private Pilot, Airplane Single Engine Land
1991
National Board of Medical Examiners, Diplomate
1993
-
1997
MA, Physician/Board of Registration in Medicine
1993
-
2008
American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics Certification
1997
-
Pres
MO, Physician & Surgeon/Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
2008
-
Pres
American Board of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Certification
2015
-
Pres
IL, Physician & Surgeon/Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation
2015
-
2019
Advanced Trauma Life Support
2016
-
2019
C-NPT (Neonatal Pediatric Transport)
2017
CEVO 3: Ambulance
2017
-
Pres
CMTE (Certified Medical Transport Executive)
2020
-
2022
Basic Life Support
2020
-
2022
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
2020
-
2022
Pediatric Advanced Life Support
2021
-
2023
Neonatal Resuscitation Program
Honors and Awards
Alumni Scholarship, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
,
1982
Phi Beta Kappa
,
1983
Summa cum Laude, Biochemistry
,
1983
Medical Student Research Award, Society for Pediatric Research
,
1989
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Physicians
,
1994
Reynolds Rich Smith Fellowship in Development and Function of the Central Nervous System
,
1994
Wyeth Pediatrics Neonatology Research Grant
,
1994
Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
,
1997
Scholar, NIH-designated Child Health Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine
,
1997
Spoehrer Scholar Award, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine
,
1999
Society for Pediatric Research, Member
,
2001
Promotion with tenure
,
2006
- Pres
Recent Publications
view all (22)
Publication Co-Authors
Marwan Shinawi, M.D.
Zachary A. Vesoulis, MD MSCI
Dorothy Katherine Grange, M.D.
Celeste C. Brancato, M.D.
Kimberly S. Quayle, M.D.
Francis Sessions Cole, III, M.D.
Morris H, Magers N, Saunders S, Vesoulis Z.
Potential risk modifiers for severe intraventricular hemorrhage in very low birthweight infants requiring transport
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
.
2020.
doi:
10.1080/14767058.2020.1813708
PMID:
32873087
Rosenbloom J, Nelson DM, Saunders S, Cole FS, Chandarlis J, Macones GA, Cahill AG.
Addressing medically-underserved populations through maternal-fetal transport:A geographic analysis
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med.
.
2020;33
(17):
2913-2917.
doi:
10.1080/14767058.2018.1564028
PMID:
30585099
Curfman A, Groenendyk J, Markham C, Quayle K, Turmelle M, Tieken B, Brancato C, Saunders S.
Implementation of telemedicine in pediatric and neonatal transport
Air Med J
.
2020;39
(4):
271-275.
doi:
10.1016/j.amj.2020.04.008. Epub 2020 May 7
PMID:
32690303
Ellies DL, Economou A, Viviano B, Rey JP, Paine-Saunders S, Krumlauf R, Saunders S.
Wise regulates bone deposition through genetic interactions with Lrp5.
PLoS One
.
2014;9
(5):
e96257.
doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0096257
PMCID:
PMC4006890
PMID:
24789067
Stankiewicz P, Kulkarni S, Dharmadhikari AV, Sampath S, Bhatt SS, Shaikh TH, Xia Z, Pursley AN, Cooper ML, Shinawi M, Paciorkowski AR, Grange DK, Noetzel MJ, Saunders S, Simons P, Summar M, Lee B, Scaglia F, Fellmann F, Martinet D, Beckmann JS, Asamoah A, Platky K, Sparks S, Martin AS, Madan-Khetarpal S, Hoover J, Medne L, Bonnemann CG, Moeschler JB, Vallee SE, Parikh S, Irwin P, Dalzell VP, Smith WE, Banks VC, Flannery DB, Lovell CM, Bellus GA, Golden-Grant K, Gorski JL, Kussmann JL, McGregor TL, Hamid R, Pfotenhauer J, Ballif BC, Shaw CA, Kang SH, Bacino CA, Patel A, Rosenfeld JA, Cheung SW, Shaffer LG.
Recurrent deletions and reciprocal duplications of 10q11.21q11.23 including CHAT and SLC18A3 are likely mediated by complex low-copy repeats.
Hum Mutat
.
2012;33
(1):
165-79.
doi:
10.1002/humu.21614
PMCID:
PMC3655525
PMID:
21948486
Thach BT, Kenney-Hunt JP, Simon TC, Stratman JL, Thach SB, Harris KA, Saunders S, Cheverud JM.
Sex-specific quantitative trait loci linked to autoresuscitation failure in SWR/J mice.
Heredity (Edinb)
.
2009;103
(6):
469-75.
doi:
10.1038/hdy.2009.89
PMCID:
PMC2783180
PMID:
19654605
Ng A, Wong M, Viviano B, Erlich JM, Alba G, Pflederer C, Jay PY, Saunders S.
Loss of glypican-3 function causes growth factor-dependent defects in cardiac and coronary vascular development.
Dev Biol
.
2009;335
(1):
208-15.
doi:
10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.08.029
PMCID:
PMC2763964
PMID:
19733558
Ellies DL, Viviano B, McCarthy J, Rey JP, Itasaki N, Saunders S, Krumlauf R.
Bone density ligand, Sclerostin, directly interacts with LRP5 but not LRP5G171V to modulate Wnt activity.
J Bone Miner Res
.
2006;21
(11):
1738-49.
doi:
10.1359/jbmr.060810
PMID:
17002572
Vachharajani A, Bethin K, Mouillet JF, Sadovsky Y, Saunders S.
The rare occurrence of absent adrenals in a term infant: a case report and review of the literature.
Am J Perinatol
.
2006;23
(2):
111-4.
doi:
10.1055/s-2006-931911
PMID:
16506117
Vachharajani A, Saunders S.
Allelic variation in the serotonin transporter (5HTT) gene contributes to idiopathic pulmonary hypertension in children.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun
.
2005;334
(2):
376-9.
doi:
10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.06.107
PMID:
16009349
Viviano BL, Silverstein L, Pflederer C, Paine-Saunders S, Mills K, Saunders S.
Altered hematopoiesis in glypican-3-deficient mice results in decreased osteoclast differentiation and a delay in endochondral ossification.
Dev Biol
.
2005;282
(1):
152-62.
doi:
10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.03.003
PMID:
15936336
Viviano BL, Paine-Saunders S, Gasiunas N, Gallagher J, Saunders S.
Domain-specific modification of heparan sulfate by Qsulf1 modulates the binding of the bone morphogenetic protein antagonist Noggin.
J Biol Chem
.
2004;279
(7):
5604-11.
doi:
10.1074/jbc.M310691200
PMID:
14645250
Paine-Saunders S, Viviano BL, Economides AN, Saunders S.
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans retain Noggin at the cell surface: a potential mechanism for shaping bone morphogenetic protein gradients.
J Biol Chem
.
2002;277
(3):
2089-96.
doi:
10.1074/jbc.M109151200
PMID:
11706034
Paine-Saunders S, Viviano BL, Zupicich J, Skarnes WC, Saunders S.
glypican-3 controls cellular responses to Bmp4 in limb patterning and skeletal development.
Dev Biol
.
2000;225
(1):
179-87.
doi:
10.1006/dbio.2000.9831
PMID:
10964473
Paine-Saunders S, Viviano BL, Saunders S.
GPC6, a novel member of the glypican gene family, encodes a product structurally related to GPC4 and is colocalized with GPC5 on human chromosome 13.
Genomics
.
1999;57
(3):
455-8.
doi:
10.1006/geno.1999.5793
PMID:
10329016
Saunders S, Paine-Saunders S, Lander AD.
Expression of the cell surface proteoglycan glypican-5 is developmentally regulated in kidney, limb, and brain.
Dev Biol
.
1997;190
(1):
78-93.
doi:
10.1006/dbio.1997.8690
PMID:
9331333
Kato M, Saunders S, Nguyen H, Bernfield M.
Loss of cell surface syndecan-1 causes epithelia to transform into anchorage-independent mesenchyme-like cells.
Mol Biol Cell
.
1995;6
(5):
559-76.
PMCID:
PMC301215
PMID:
7545031
Saunders S, Jalkanen M, O'Farrell S, Bernfield M.
Molecular cloning of syndecan, an integral membrane proteoglycan.
J Cell Biol
.
1989;108
(4):
1547-56.
PMCID:
PMC2115498
PMID:
2494194
Saunders S, Bernfield M.
Cell surface proteoglycan binds mouse mammary epithelial cells to fibronectin and behaves as a receptor for interstitial matrix.
J Cell Biol
.
1988;106
(2):
423-30.
PMCID:
PMC2114970
PMID:
2963012
Jalkanen M, Rapraeger A, Saunders S, Bernfield M.
Cell surface proteoglycan of mouse mammary epithelial cells is shed by cleavage of its matrix-binding ectodomain from its membrane-associated domain.
J Cell Biol
.
1987;105
(6 Pt 2):
3087-96.
PMCID:
PMC2114732
PMID:
3320062
Saunders S, Hedlund BE.
Electrostatic modification of protein surfaces: effect on hemoglobin ligation and solubility.
Biochemistry
.
1984;23
(7):
1457-61.
PMID:
6426506
Ramakrishnan K, Oppenhuizen ME, Saunders S, Fisher J.
Stereoselectivity of chloroperoxidase-dependent halogenation.
Biochemistry
.
1983;22
(13):
3271-7.
PMID:
6882748
Last updated: 05/06/2022
Internal Links
Office 365
External Citrix
Internal ECV
External ECV
HRMS
Pediatric Intranet
Faculty Opportunities
Office of Faculty Development
Login
Affiliates
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
BJC Healthcare
Children’s Discovery Institute
IT Services
Helpdesk
PCF Home
Clinical Informatics
Follow Us
Find a Physician
Make a Gift
© 2022 by Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130