Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo, MD, MPH highlighted by IDSA Foundation during Black History Month
Highlighting members during Black History Month This Black History Month, the IDSA Foundation highlighted members that make this month even more special. While Black History Month is only one month, the IDSA Foundation focuses year-round on diversity and inclusion for the future of ID. In the video below, Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis shares her thoughts […]
Liang Shan, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, and colleagues identified a potential way to eradicate the latent HIV infection that lies dormant inside infected immune cells (Links to an external site)
Treatment for HIV has improved tremendously over the past 30 years; once a death sentence, the disease is now a manageable lifelong condition in many parts of the world. Life expectancy is about the same as that of individuals without HIV, though patients must adhere to a strict regimen of daily antiretroviral therapy, or the […]
Let’s Meet the Virologist, episode 20, features Dr. Tristan Jordan who has been encouraging vaccine uptake in friends and family
‘Let’s Meet the Virologists’, hosted by Larissa Thackray, PhD, associate professor of Infectious Diseases, talks in Episode 20 with Tristan Jordan, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, about his work using a CRISPR screen and proteomics of the virus replication complex to identify new […]
Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, clinical instructor, discusses HIV, COVID-19, systematic racism (Links to an external site)
“If we don’t make it plain, we’re never going to address it or get through it” For a few days after May 16, 2020, Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis was in a safe space or so she thought.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received $2.95 million Gates Foundation grant to develop better diagnostic tests for worm infections (Links to an external site)
Global campaigns to eliminate two tropical parasitic worm infections have been hindered by lack of good diagnostic tools. Since the turn of the century, multinational mass drug-treatment efforts have cut the number of people at risk of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis by more than half, but more than half a billion people remain at risk. […]
Rachel Presti, MD, PhD joins Larissa Thackray, PhD to discuss COVID-19 vaccines on LMtV podcast
Meet the people behind today’s virology headlines. People just like you working to understand viruses and how they affect you. ‘Let’s Meet the Virologists’, hosted by Larissa Thackray, PhD, associate professor of Infectious Diseases, talks in Episode 19 with Rachel Presti, MD/PhD, an associate professor of Medicine and the medical director of the Infectious Diseases […]
Gerald Medoff Visiting Professor grand rounds lecture series features Dr. Fauci providing an update on COVID-19 to School of Medicine faculty, staff, students
Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spoke today about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the Department of Medicine’s virtual, weekly Grand Rounds. The online talk — part of the Gerald Medoff Visiting Professor grand rounds lecture series […]
Historic, hopeful moment arrives as COVID-19 vaccinations begin on Medical Campus (Links to an external site)
Employees with close patient contact begin receiving Pfizer vaccine; older ages prioritized As part of a historic effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care personnel at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and BJC HealthCare have begun receiving the first doses of a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Almost 10,000 doses of the […]
Barrette, Henderson, Hunstad, Liang, Reno named fellows of Infectious Diseases Society of America
Five faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been elected fellows of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). They are Ernie-Paul Barrette, MD, Jeffrey Henderson, MD, PhD, Stephen Liang, MD, and Hilary Reno, MD, PhD, all associate professors of medicine in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases; and David Hunstad, MD, director […]
Congratulations to Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, who has been appointed to the City of St. Louis Board of Health!
Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, has been appointed as a member of the Board of Health of St. Louis by Mayor Lyda Krewson for a three year term. Dr. Hlatshwayo Davis indicated that she is “thrilled to get to serve our community by advancing the best possible public health standards for those that need them […]
Gary J. Weil, MD will be the inaugural recipient of the Drs. Gerald and Judy Medoff Professorship In Infectious Disease
Victoria J. Fraser, MD, Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine, Jennifer A. Philips, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology & Co-director, Infectious Diseases Division, William G. Powderly, MD, J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine & Co-director, Infectious Diseases Division are delighted to announce that Dr. Gary Weil, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular […]
Podcast: COVID-19 vaccines around the corner with Rachel Presti, MD, PhD and Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH
This episode of ‘Show Me the Science’ reports on progress toward a vaccine and how to stay safe before vaccines become widely available “Show Me the Science,” hosted by Jim Dryden, director podcast services at Washington University School of Medicine, features infectious diseases physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discuss the […]
Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, co-chair Fast Track Cities St. Louis, announces launch of new data dashboard (Links to an external site)
School of Medicine supports partnership working to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. On Tuesday, December 1, 2020, World AIDS Day, the St. Louis City Department of Health hosted a virtual celebration recognizing the first anniversary of Fast-Track Cities St. Louis and the launch of its new HIV data dashboard. Washington University School of Medicine […]
Mike Diamond, MD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine along with Drs. Bateman and Hultgren named to National Academy of Inventors (Links to an external site)
School of Medicine scientists honored for innovation Neurologist Randall J. Bateman, MD, virologist and immunologist Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, and microbiologist Scott Hultgren, PhD – all faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis – have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Shabaana Khader, PhD, professor, Molecular Microbiology, speaker at International Symposium on Innate Immunity and COVID-19 on Dec. 11
There is an urgent need to better understand the role of innate immunity in relation to the current COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to future pandemics. Dr. Shabaana Khader, professor, Molecular Microbiology, and Dr. Michael S. Avidan, Head of the Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine will moderate and join several international speakers at […]