Mike Diamond, MD, PhD, co-senior author of data that could lead to drugs, vaccines for viral arthritis caused by chikungunya (Links to an external site)
Chikungunya virus, once confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, has infected more than 1 million people in the Americas since 2013, when mosquitoes carrying the virus were discovered in the Caribbean. Most people who become infected develop fever and joint pain that last about a week. But in up to half of patients, the virus can […]
Corrado A. Cancedda, MD, PhD, WUSM ID Fellow 2004-2007, will guide Botswana-UPENN’s strategy in sub-Saharan Africa
Corrado Cancedda, MD, PhD, assoicate professor of infectious diseases at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, recently assumed the role of Director and Strategic Adviser for Academic Partnerships in Global Health at the Botswana-University of Pennsylvania Partnership (BUP). Dr. Cancedda is a seasoned global health professional and was chosen following an extensive international […]
Up to $24 million will help to eliminate two tropical diseases (Links to an external site)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports research to fight elephantiasis, river blindness Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis over the past decade has helped advance a global campaign led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eliminate two neglected tropical diseases that have left tens of millions of people permanently disabled […]
Rupa Patel, MD, MPH, DTM&H among three St. Louisans selected to national list of influential young executives
Dr. Patel of Washington University School of Medicine, Mark Bini of Express Scripts, and Amy Schnettgoecke of Emerson have been selected to a national list of influential young executives. The Business Journals’ Influencers: Rising Stars spotlights 100 people in business across the country who are having an impact relatively early in their careers on their […]
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, appointed Chair of SHEA Awards Committee
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, an assistant professor of medicine, Infectious Diseases, recently accepted a three year appointment of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) awards committee. Dr. Kwon will chair the committee that oversees annual career recognition awards during IDWeek.
Dr. Sumanth Gandra joins the Infectious Diseases Division
Dr. Sumanth Gandra joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor on January 21, 2019. Dr. Gandra received his medical degree from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India in 2004. In 2007, he received his MPH degree in community health from Eastern Kentucky University. He completed his internal medicine […]
Liang co-edits issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
Stephen Y. Liang, MD, MPHS, assistant professor of medicine, Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases, co-edited an issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America dedicated entirely to Infectious Disease Emergencies with a goal of providing a broad range of updates to emergency physicians. Dr. Liang’s co-edited this issue with Rachel L. Chin, MD, […]
Rupa Patel, MD and Anne Glowinski, MD address mental health crisis among Rohingya refugees.
COX’S BAZAR DISTRICT, Bangladesh — A 12-year-old Rohingya boy flatly, stoically tells of how, within three hours one day in August 2017, the Myanmar military murdered 56 members of his family in their village in western Myanmar. Of his immediate family, his parents and three sisters were slain; only he and his brothers — ages […]
Caline Mattar and Indi Trehan, co-directors of a program that teaches medical trainees how to provide care in developing countries (Links to an external site)
A starved supply closet and a lack of basic necessities such as electricity or running water pose significant health risks to patients at medical clinics in poverty-stricken parts of the world, sometimes even more so than illness or disease.
$3.4 million aids effort to make a better flu vaccine (Links to an external site)
Rachel Presti, MD, PhD and the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Team collaborate in $3.4 million effort to make a better flu vaccine
Stephen Liang Deployed with the Missouri Task Force 1 – in Response to East Coast Hurricanes
Stephen Liang, MD, MPHS, assistant professor of medicine, joined Missouri Task Force I (MO-TF1) in 2011 as a medical team manager, and has traveled to many sites helping disaster victims and their communities. When Hurricane Florence hit in September 2018, MO-TF1 was activated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deploy as a type III […]
Gary Weil, MD, receives a $2.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Infectious disease specialist Gary Weil, MD, at the School of Medicine, has received a $2.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead a clinical trial in eastern Ghana to evaluate a triple drug combination for treating onchocerchiasis, a parasitic worm disease also called river blindness. The researchers want to determine whether […]
New strategy may curtail spread of antibiotic resistance (Links to an external site)
Study identifies key step in spread of drug resistance, opportunity for intervention Spotless surfaces in hospitals can hide bacteria that rarely cause problems for healthy people but pose a serious threat to people with weakened immune systems. Acinetobacter baumannii causes life-threatening lung and bloodstream infections in hospitalized people. Such infections are among the most difficult to treat […]
Dr. Jennifer Philips MD, PhD new Co-Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases (Links to an external site)
It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Jennifer Philips MD, PhD, has accepted the position as Co-Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, in the Department of Medicine. Dr. William Powderly will continue as Co-Director of the Division overseeing the clinical faculty, operations, research and educational programs.
Documentary in development about Dr. Gerry Medoff, ‘A Race for Another Day’ against Parkinson’s
Dr. Gerry Medoff lead the team at Washington University School of Medicine to help develop the original 24-pill cocktail that stopped HIV from being a death march.Let that sink in. More recently he was in a race against Parkinson’s Disease. Tim Breitbach of Optimal Entertainment is an award-winning writer (Dopamine, Sundance Film Festival), director (Multiple […]
Dr. Gerald Medoff, former director of ID Division, dies peacefully Monday, January 14, 2019
Remembered as an inspiring leader, investigator, dedicated teacher, caring physician. Gerald Medoff, MD, an emeritus professor of medicine and former director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and vice chair of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died peacefully Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, in hospice care at Evelyn’s House in Creve […]
Faculty member Dr. Rupa Patel conducted forensic exams of violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) published their report on the Chut Pyin Massacre with forensic evidence of violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar. The report is based on interviews and forensic medical examinations of Rohingya survivors of these attacks. Dr. Rupa Patel, is among the three physicians involved in field investigations related to Chut Pyin. […]
Makedonka Mitreva, PhD, associate professor of medicine and William H. McCoy, MD, PhD, instructor in medicine, shed light on how medication for severe acne alters skin microbiome (Links to an external site)
Isotretinoin, a form of vitamin A, has been prescribed to treat acne for decades. It reduces oil production in the skin, which helps prevent acne from forming. But new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has uncovered a previously unknown benefit of the medication. It shifts the skin microbiome of acne […]
Spec appointed associate editor of OFID
Andrej Spec, MD, assistant professor and former ID fellow, was appointed Associate Editor for Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID). Dr. Spec will be responsible for reviewing topics of mycology and transplant infectious diseases.
Jennie Kwon invited to serve on two national committees of IDSA and SHEA
Dr. Kwon recently joined the IDSA Research Committee. The goals of the IDSA Research Committee are to promote research and new advancements in infectious diseases; to monitor developments and make recommendations related to federal support for biomedical research; and to make recommendations on activities/issues under its purview that involve federal legislation and regulation. Jennie has […]