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 My Struggle to Take Anti-H.I.V. Medicine By DARYL HANNAHSEPT. 21, 2017 I am a 30-something African-American gay man in New York. H.I.V. is constantly on my mind. Not so much my H.I.V.-negative status. Rather, even though I watched my parents die of AIDS when I was young, I still struggle with whether I should take […]

While Zika virus causes devastating damage to the brains of developing fetuses, it one day may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine shows that the virus kills brain […]

The Global Probiotics Council (GPC), a committee formed by Danone Nutricia Research and YAKULT HONSHA CO., LTD., announced the three recipients of the tenth annual Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research (YIGPRO) today. The program was created to contribute to the advancement of probiotics and gastrointestinal microbiota research in the United States.  This year’s grant focus […]

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support research aimed at translating scientific and clinical discoveries into new diagnostics and therapeutics, and to more rapidly apply research findings to improve health.

Jason Burnham, MD, Instructor in Medicine Jason was born and raised in Houston, Texas and remained in Texas for college and medical school. He went to a small liberal arts college in Texas, Southwestern University, where he worked in a microbiology lab. His mentor and close friend, Martín Gonzalez, encouraged Jason to go to medical […]

Victoria Fraser, MD, Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine, former co-director of the Infectious Diseases Division and current Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine, was recently honored by the St. Louis Business Journal as one of the most influential business women in the St. Louis region. Dr. Fraser served […]

Anne Mobley Butler, PhD, MS, Instructor in Medicine Anne grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where she once aspired to be a baseball statistician for the Baltimore Orioles. After earning her BS degree in Neuroscience at Emory University (2003) and her MS degree in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health (2006), she worked as a […]

We congratulate Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, Andrej Spec, MD,  Michael J. Durkin, MD, MPH, Ige A. George, MD, MS, and Kevin Hsueh, MD, on their recent promotions to Assistant Professors of Medicine.

The ID Division has decided to recognize both clinical teaching and the career of Russ Little by creating the Dr. J. Russel Little Award for Clinical Education. The award is given to a faculty member chosen by the current ID fellows as an outstanding clinical teacher. Dr. Gerome Escota is the inaugural recipient of the […]

As the 2016-17 academic year comes to a close, we would like to reflect on the highlights and accomplishments of the Division over the last year. We continue to grow as a Division with over 50 faculty now employed across the research and clinical sides of the mission. We anticipate recruiting additional faculty, both in […]

Robyn S. Klein, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist recognized internationally for her work on the brain’s immune system, has been named vice provost and associate dean for graduate education for the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) at Washington University in St. Louis. She will begin her new post Jan. 1.

Congratulations to the following ID faculty and staff for their years of service to Washington University School of Medicine. 10 YEARS 15 YEARS 25 YEARS Traci Albers MBA Tawny Brown, MSW Thomas Bailey, MD Vidana Basagic, BBA Kurt Curtis Victora Fraser, MD Kerstin Fischer Jennifer Klenke, MS Mike Royal, RPh Tanya Madden, BS     […]

Jeffrey Henderson, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, is lead author on study that suggests ways to ‘starve’ hard-to-treat E. coli infections

E-P Barrette, associate professor of medicine, was honored at the annual senior lunch celebrating the graduating Internal Medicine residents on May 23, 2017. The residents selected Dr. Barrette to receive the “Department of Medicine House Staff Dedication to Resident Teaching 2016-2017” award. Dr. Barrette received this special award because the residents and chiefs wanted to […]

Steven J. Lawrence, associate professor of medicine, was honored at the annual senior lunch celebrating the graduating Internal Medicine residents on May 23, 2017. The residents and chiefs selected Dr. Lawrence as the Infectious Diseases Teacher of the Year Award in the category of infectious diseases consults and infectious diseases subspecialty clinics.

Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 8:30 am – 3:15 pmEric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC)320 S. Euclid AvenueSt. Louis, MO This year’s symposium, “Gut Feeling: Microbiome Effects on the Nervous  System in Health and Disease” will include presentations by several  world-renowned experts on the interplay between microbiome and CNS  development, nervous system homeostasis and neurologic disorders. There will […]

In 1978, during the infancy of the AIDS epidemic, reports about isolated cases of gay men suffering from a rare lung infection and an aggressive cancer began trickling in to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That same year, Rupa Patel was born in the Midwest to immigrants from rural Indian villages. While […]

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, assistant professor, ID fellow ’16, has been elected to serve as the chair of the Bureau of Emerging Leaders and the New Physician in Practice member of the AOA Board of Trustees. Dr. Kwon is an assistant professor of medicine and a board certified internist and infectious diseases specialist at the […]

The Scholarship was established by SHEA to promote the training of outstanding infectious disease fellows who demonstrate interest in the field of healthcare epidemiology. In January 2017, Jason presented his work on readmissions in patients with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) infections at the CDC Epicenters Workgroup meeting in Atlanta, GA. CDC’s Prevention Epicenters Program is a […]

Dr. Patel, MD MPH DTM&H, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Director, PrEP Program at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO will join others to address “Pharmacy-based Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV: Innovative Service Delivery Models” on Thursday, June 22. Rupa will be joined by Stuart Federman, PhamD, […]