2024 AAMC leadership seminars, call for nominations

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is offering several leadership seminar opportunities to help early career faculty prepare for their futures. Nominees can apply below to receive tuition assistance for these programs.

New Employees December 2023

Welcome new hires!

Staff Name Division Title Bree Anderson Ambulatory Medicine Medical Assistant III Hannah Cottrell Central Admin Clinical Research Coordinator II Nicholas Hadas Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine Research Technician II Cori Lyons Hematology & Oncology Nurse Practitioner Audrey Merz Hematology & Oncology Senior Clinical Research Coordinator Tierra Tellis Ambulatory Medicine Medical Assistant III

Funded Awards November 2023

Congratulations to Nicole Brossier, Jonathan Cooper, Vikas Dharnidharka, Jorge Di Paola, Margaret Ferris, Allison King, Jeffrey Magee, Jason Newland, Ronald Rubenstein, Bryan Sisk and Jennifer Wambach.

PI Agency Title Nicole Brossier Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation YI Summit Resource Sharing Plan Award for Defining the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pediatric Brain Tumor Penetrance Jonathan Cooper Beyond Batten Disease Foundation/BBDF Testing the Efficacy of N-acetyl-L-leucine as a Candidate Therapy for the NCLs Vikas Dharnidharka NIH/U01 Advancing Transplantation Outcomes in Children Jorge Di Paola SLCH […]

St. Louis Children’s NICU miracle baby Evie is coming home for Christmas (Links to an external site)

Family of Evie

Evangeline “Evie” Mae Statler’s life began as a dream long ago for her parents and 10-year-old brother Mason. From hearing the name Evangeline for the first time in a game Mason was playing—which the Statlers later learned meant “bringer of good news”—to literal dreams about adding a little girl to their family, this baby was […]

Kwon, Newland named to antibiotic resistance advisory council (Links to an external site)

From left, Jason G. Newland, MD, and Jennie H. Kwon, DO, both of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have been have been selected to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, an associate professor of medicine in infectious diseases, and Jason G. Newland, MD, a professor of pediatrics, both at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have been selected to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.

Discovery of new PI shows value of grants for exploratory research (Links to an external site)

Megan A. Cooper, MD, PhD, has been named director of the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

When Dr. Megan Cooper, director of the clinical immunology program and The Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, applied for the Immune Deficiency Foundation’s research grant program in 2018, she didn’t know exactly what she was looking for. She wanted to use the grant to find a genetic explanation […]

Welcome to our 24 Pediatrics fellowship matches!

2024 Pediatric Fellowship Matches

The Department of Pediatrics welcomes all 24 of our fellowship matches. These incoming fellows will start in their subspecialties in July 2024. Allergy/Immunology Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Emergency Medicine Gastroenterology Hematology/Oncology Hospital Medicine Infectious Diseases Newborn Medicine Pulmonary

Pruitt announced as next division chief for Academic Pediatrics

Cassandra Pruitt

Cassandra (Casey) M. Pruitt, MD, FAAP, will be the next chief of the Division of Academic Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine.  Pruitt is a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric hospitalist who has served as the medical director for the WashU Complex Care Clinic and the General Academic Pediatric Clinic since […]

New Employees November 2023

Welcome new hires!

Name Division Title Sue Blumfelder Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine Clinical Research Study Assistant II Jessica Cole Infectious Diseases Case Worker I Madelyn Dezort Allergy & Pulmonary Medicine Clinical Nurse Coordinator Feryn Di Lauro Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Administrative Coordinator I Ashley Hahn Infectious Diseases Senior Research Technician Danielle Moranville Central Administration Senior Manager Data Analysis […]

Funded Awards October 2023

Nicole Brossier Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg Jennifer Duncan Allison King Jeffrey Magee Thomas Pfeiffer Deepika Polineni

PI Agency Title Nicole Brossier University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Genetics and the Environment:  Evaluating How Maternal Dietary Exposure Affects Neurodevelopment and Cognition in NF1 Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg SLCH Foundation  Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens Jennifer Duncan Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates WashU International Medical Graduate Wellness Initiative – […]