Name Division Title Julia Dylan Katz Central Admin Resident Tutor Elizabeth Knittig Cardiology Patient Billing/Services Representative II Joanna Lara Infectious Diseases Case Worker II
New Hires February 2024
Ones to Watch: St. Louisans driving disruption in a range of industries (Links to an external site)
Drs. Avari Silva and Silva are changing the way doctors approach surgery. The married couple helped develop SentiAR technology, which relies on mixed-reality technology that allows 3-D digital objects to be placed in a real-world setting. “A big trend in the past 20 years has been to make surgeries as minimally invasive as possible,” says […]
3 Pediatric physicians named 2024 Dean’s Scholars
Three providers from the Washington University Department of Pediatrics were named as 2024 Dean’s Scholars: Congratulations to all five recipients! The Dean’s Scholars program supports outstanding MD-only individuals committed to a career as a physician-scientist. This program alleviates the scholar’s financial stress and provides them with mentorship, institutional support, and the protected time necessary to […]
Education Day 2024 Announcements
The members of the planning committee for WUSM’s Education Day 2024, which will be held Friday, October 15, 2024 in EPNEC with a theme of The Future of Healthcare Education, want to make you aware of a couple opportunities: Call for break-out session topics/presenters Open Now We are seeking proposals for 60-minute interactive break-out sessions […]
Sadler recipient of 2024 RPTH Editor’s Award
Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH) has announced Brooke Sadler, PhD, as a recipient of the 2024 RPTH Editor’s Award for her article titled, “Characterization of copy-number variants in a large cohort of patients with von Willebrand disease reveals a relationship between disrupted regions and disease type.” The awards are “presented annually to […]
American Society for Clinical Investigation honors physician-scientists (Links to an external site)
Three early-career scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been honored with the Young Physician-Scientist Award by the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). They are Tarin M. Bigley, MD, PhD; Jeffrey W. Brown MD, PhD; and Drew J. Schwartz, MD, PhD.
Mullin selected as Stanley Lang Teacher of the Year
The Department of Pediatrics is proud to share Jonathan Mullin, MD, was selected by the Washington University School of Medicine Phase 1 students as the “Stanley Lang Teacher of the Year” for teaching in 2023. Medical students present the Distinguished Service Teaching Awards to faculty and house staff in appreciation for exemplary service in medical […]
New Employees January 2024
Name Division Title Lauren Bedwell Ambulatory Medicine LPN Farzad Beikpour Kordgheshlaghi Infectious Diseases Postdoc Research Associate Rachel Bielecki Rheumatology Research Technician II Erin Hatfield Central Admin Credentialing Assistant Emily Landy Hematology & Oncology Postdoc Research Associate Delina Nguyen Ambulatory Medicine Medical Assistant II Abigail Ralls Newborn Medicine Clinical Nurse Coordinator Tavion Sleet Infectious Diseases Coordinator […]
Staff Feature Jeanne Silvestrini
Jeanne Silvestrini grew up in a small town in southern Illinois from 1975 – 1984. While, she didn’t live on a farm, many of her friends did. She lived vicariously through those friends, however her first encounter with a calf on a milk farm wasn’t all cuddly like she had hoped. Once the calf saw […]
Funded Awards December 2023
PI Agency Title Ana María Arbeláez SLCH Foundation Diabetic Retinopathy Screening with Automated Retinal Image Analysis in the Pediatric Diabetes Clinic to ImproveAccess of Care and Adherence to Standard Guidelines of Care Megan Cooper NIH/R21 Investigation of a Novel Inborn Error of Immunity with B Cell Deficiency Vikas Dharnidharka NIH/U01/Children’s Mercy Hospital Chronic Kidney Disease […]