Dr. Douglas Kepko joined WashU Medicine in 2026 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He serves as the Medical Director of Infection Prevention for Barnes-Jewish St Peters Hospital and Progress West Hospital. He also sees patients through the Missouri Baptist Medical Center Infectious Diseases consult service.
Dr. Kepko earned his medical degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine before completing residency at Summa Health. During residency, he focused on educating medical students and interns prior to starting fellowship at The Ohio State University in Infectious Diseases. During the first year of fellowship, he completed a research project evaluating the clinical outcomes of the HIV Fellows Clinic. In the second year, he focused on infection prevention, joining the medical directors of epidemiology in reviews and meetings and completing a quality improvement project on the MRSA HOB.
Barnes-Jewish St Peters Hospital
10 Hospital Drive
St. Peters, MO 63376
Progress West Hospital
2 Progress Point Parkway
O’Fallon, MO 63368
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
315 Ballas Road
St. Louis, MO 63131
- BS, Biology: Emporia State University, Emporia KS (2016)
- DO: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), Erie PA (2021)
- Residency: Summa Health System, Akron OH (2024)
- Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Epidemiology Track: The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus OH (2026)
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2025)
- Fellow, Infectious Disease Society of America (2024)
- American College of Physicians (2021)
- SHEA Guidelines Committee Fellow Member (2025-present)
- IDWeek Travel Award recipient (2025)
- McClafferty B, Umer I, Fye G, Kepko D, Kalayanamitra R, Shahid Z, Ramgobin D, Cai A, Groff A, Bhandari A, Aggarwal CS, Patel R, Bhatt D, Polimera H, Sahu N, Vunnam R, Golamari R, Kumar A, Jain R. Approach to critical illness myopathy and polyneuropathy in the older SARS-CoV-2 patients. J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Sep;79:241-245. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.07.058. Epub 2020 Jul 24. PMID: 33070904; PMCID: PMC7380205.
- Shahid Z, Kalayanamitra R, McClafferty B, Kepko D, Ramgobin D, Patel R, Aggarwal CS, Vunnam R, Sahu N, Bhatt D, Jones K, Golamari R, Jain R. COVID-19 and Older Adults: What We Know. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 May;68(5):926-929. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16472. Epub 2020 Apr 20. PMID: 32255507; PMCID: PMC7262251.
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