Tarin M. Bigley, MD, PhD, and Drew J. Schwartz, MD, PhD, were among 52 awardees who were honored with The American Society for Clinical Investigation’s (ASCI) 2024 Young Physician-Scientist Awards. Three physician-scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis won the award. The award recognizes physician-scientists early in their first faculty appointments who […]
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been named one of nine core sites in the Pediatric Heart Network, a national network of leading hospitals and research institutions that works toward improving outcomes and quality of life for children with heart disease.
A Florissant, Missouri family is counting their blessings after their six-month-old baby had a successful liver transplant. Baby Eden Hernandez was born in July 2023 to parents Sarah and Kevin and was a very happy baby – so much so she had nurses at St. Louis Children’s Hospital pop their heads in often, just to […]
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.
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
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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