Faculty Features

Faculty Feature Arpita Vyas

Arpita Kalla Vyas, MD, was born in India, and at a very young age, her parents relocated to Costa Rica. The schools and community in San Jose, Costa Rica, provided her and her family a sense of belonging. She spent most of her childhood and adolescence there. She completed her …

New Employees

New Employees November & December 2022

Faculty Name Division Title Jenna Putzel Academics Assistant Professor Alexandra Gybbon Fallon  Hospitalist Assistant Professor Staff Name Division Title Sherrie Brown-Pittman  Gastroenterology Research Technician I Mary DeFranks Endocrinology Clinic Manager Meili Hollingsworth Hematology/Oncology  Clinical Research Study Assistant II Megan Jones-White Hematology/Oncology  Clinical Research Study Assistant II Ryan Kavanagh Cardiology EKG …

Funded Awards

Funded Awards October & November 2022

Name Agency Title Jeffrey Bednarski NIH/R01 RAG-mediated DNA Damage Responses in Immune Development and Function Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg SLCH Foundation  Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens Julie Dorfman SLCH Foundation  Reach out and Read Amanda Kolmar NIH/University of Pittsburgh Chilled Platelets Study Katie Plax SLCH Foundation The SPOT …

New Employees

New Employees October 2022

Faculty Name Division Title Michael Kramer Critical Care  Instructor Arpita Vyas Endocrinology Associate Professor Staff Name Division Title Elizabeth Coffin Central Admin Assistant Residency Coordinator Macey Colonius Newborn Medicine  Staff Nurse Markela Cunningham  Gastroenterology Patient Billing/Services Representative II Nah Cunningham Academics Community Outreach Representative II Amanda Duncan Newborn Medicine  Clinical Research …

Funded Awards

Funded Awards September 2022

PI Agency Title Dustin Baldridge NIH/U01/Geisinger Clinic Leveraging Rare Genetic Etiologies to Advance Knowledge and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders Dustin Baldridge NIH/U01 Admin Supp/Geisinger Clinic Leveraging Rare Genetic Etiologies to Advance Knowledge and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders – Supplement Megan Cooper SLCH Foundation  Jeffrey Modell Research Center – Dr. Cooper …

Faculty Features

Faculty Feature Abby Kissel

Abby Kissel, MD, grew up right here in St. Louis (University City), with WashU undergrad and medical school always in her orbit. The undergrad campus was practically in her backyard and was where her oldest (of three) sisters went to college, and her second oldest sister attended law school. The …

New Employees

New Employees September 2022

Faculty Name Division Title Megan Connolly Academics Assistant Professor Deepika Polineni Allergy, Immunology, Pulmonary  Associate Professor Staff Name Division Title Bashar Alkhatib Endocrinology   Staff Scientist Carine Anka Endocrinology Clinical Fellow Lynette Anthony Allergy, Immunology, Pulmonary Patient Billing/Services Representative II Mary Basse Hematology/Oncology  Research Assistant Postdoc Aura Ferreiro   Infectious …

Funded Awards

Funded Awards August 2022

PI Agency Title Tarin Bigley Washington University Digesitive Diseases Research Core Center Evaluation of thymic gastric antigen expression in roseolovirus-induced autoimmune gastritis David Butler MCCMN/Small Grant McDonnel Center Small Grants Program Amjad Horani NIH/U54/University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Genetic Disorders of Mucociliary Clearance GDMCC David Hunstad SLCH Foundation Catlin …

Faculty Features

Faculty Feature Melissa Mavers

Melissa Michelle Mavers, MD, PhD, is a St. Louis native who wanted nothing more as a teenager than to leave St. Louis and explore the big wide world. She did just that, relocating to Florida to attend the University of Miami. She still recalls her father regretting taking her to …

New Employees

New Employees August 2022

Faculty Name Division Title Kaye Brathwaite  Nephrology Instructor Amelia Bray-Aschenbrenner Emergency Medicine  Assistant Professor Ellen Cody  Nephrology Assistant Professor Melissa Mavers Hematology/Oncology  Assistant Professor Thomas Pfeiffer Hematology/Oncology  Assistant Professor Staff Name Division Title Rea Agnihotri Emergency Medicine  Undergraduate Student Sonya Burnett Hematology/Oncology  Education Liaison II Paige Ekert  Genetics Graduate Student …