Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, Duke University, 2001
• PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008
• MD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008

Training

• Residency, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2008 - 2011
• Chief Residency, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2011 - 2012
• Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2012 - 2016

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2008 - PresMO, State License
• 2012 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics
• 2016 - PresBoard Certified, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Honors and Awards

• Phi Eta Sigma, 1998
• Annual Merit Award of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars' Chapter at Duke University, 1999
• National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 1999
• Distinction in Biology Graduate, Duke University, 2001
• Honors Thesis: The Role of CLN3 in Batten's Disease and Apoptosis, 2001
• Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Duke University, 2001
• Elisabeth L. Demonchaux Prize in Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008
• Best Basic Science Abstract, Department of Pediatrics Research Retreat, 2015
• Teresa Vietti Research Fellow, 2015
• Best Fellow Abstract in Continuing Science, Department of Pediatrics Research Retreat, 2016
• Fellows Section Basic Research Award, Society for Pediatric Research, Pediatric Academic Society, 2016
• David Gilstrap Award, 2016
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists, 2019 - Pres
• American Society of Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award, 2020
• Society for Pediatric Research, elected member, 2022

Recent Publications view all (11)

Publication Co-Authors

Megan A. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.

Jeffrey J. Bednarski, M.D., Ph.D.

Regina Clemens, M.D., Ph.D.

Jason Newland, M.D., M.Ed.

Mary E. Hartman, M.D., M.P.H.

Maleewan Kitcharoensakkul, MD, MSCI

Stuart Friess, M.D.

Lulu Sun

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Ashley Steed, M.D., Ph.D.

1. Amrute JM, Perry AM, Anand G, Cruchaga C, Hock KG, Farnsworth CW, Randolph GJ, Lavine KJ, Steed AL. Cell specific peripheral immune responses predict survival in critical COVID-19 patients. Nat Commun. 2022;13(1):882. PMCID:PMC8847593  PMID:35169146 
2. Hartman ME, Anabayan I, Jwa B, Pineda JA, Steed A, Newland JG, Friess SH. Early Antibiotic Exposure in Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2021. PMID:34555169 
3. Kitcharoensakkul M, Aluri J, Elsharkawi I, Steed A, Putnam CD, Swayampakula AK, Cooper MA, Bednarski JJ. A Case of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Missed by Newborn Screening. J Clin Immunol. 2021;41(6):1352-1355. PMCID:PMC7954206  PMID:33712943 
4. Anand G, Perry AM, Cummings CL, Raymond E, Clemens RA, Steed AL. Surface Proteins of SARS-CoV-2 Drive Airway Epithelial Cells to Induce IFN-Dependent Inflammation. J Immunol. 2021. PMCID:PMC8278276  PMID:34078711 
5. Celorrio M, Abellanas MA, Rhodes J, Goodwin V, Moritz J, Vadivelu S, Wang L, Rodgers R, Xiao S, Anabayan I, Payne C, Perry AM, Baldridge MT, Aymerich MS, Steed A, Friess SH. Gut microbial dysbiosis after traumatic brain injury modulates the immune response and impairs neurogenesis. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2021;9(1):40. PMCID:PMC7944629  PMID:33691793 
6. Ashley L. Steed, George P. Christophi, Gerard E. Kaiko, Lulu Sun, Victoria M. Goodwin, Umang Jain, Ekaterina Esaulova, Maxim N. Artyomov, David J. Morales, Michael J. Holtzman, Adrianus C.M. Boon, Deborah J. Lenschow, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck. The Microbial Metabolite Desaminotyrosine Protects from Influenza through Type I Interferon Science. 2017;357(6350):498-502. PMID:28774928 
7. Steed AL, Stappenbeck TS. Role of viruses and bacteria-virus interactions in autoimmunity. Curr Opin Immunol. 2014;31:102-7. PMCID:PMC4254666  PMID:25459001 
8. Goodwin MM, Canny S, Steed A, Virgin HW. Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 has evolved gamma interferon and stat1-repressible promoters for the lytic switch gene 50. J Virol. 2010;84(7):3711-7. PMCID:PMC2838114  PMID:20071569 
9. Steed A, Buch T, Waisman A, Virgin HW 4th. Gamma interferon blocks gammaherpesvirus reactivation from latency in a cell type-specific manner. J Virol. 2007;81(11):6134-40. PMCID:PMC1900319  PMID:17360749 
10. Tibbetts SA, Suarez F, Steed AL, Simmons JA, Virgin HW 4th. A gamma-herpesvirus deficient in replication establishes chronic infection in vivo and is impervious to restriction by adaptive immune cells. Virology. 2006;353(1):210-9. PMID:16797052 
11. Steed AL, Barton ES, Tibbetts SA, Popkin DL, Lutzke ML, Rochford R, Virgin HW 4th. Gamma interferon blocks gammaherpesvirus reactivation from latency. J Virol. 2006;80(1):192-200. PMCID:PMC1317536  PMID:16352543