Promotions & Appointments – September 2017
Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, MD, PhD is appointed as Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care. She is Chief of the Division of Critical Care. Dr. Wardenburg comes to Washington University from the University of Chicago where she was Chief of the Section of Pediatric Critical Care and Associate …
Holtz Honored with Doris Duke Clinical Foundation Award
Lori R. Holtz, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics was one of 17 junior physician scientists awarded The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards of $495,000 each over three years. Dr. Holtz’s project is Transmission and development of the human infant virome. Selected from a highly …
CEP in WUPS Training Sessions
The WUPS Profile System that you currently use to generate your CV is being updated to have the capability to generate your Clinician Educator Portfolio (CEP) as well. The WUPS system is found at https://wups.wustl.edu/ . The updates in the system will help standardize CEPs across the department while still maintaining …
OFD New Directors – September 2017
(left to right): Dr. Yumi Turmelle, MD, MSPH, Dr. Bess Marshall, MD, Dr. David Schnadower, MD, MPH Dr. Yumi Turmelle and Dr. David Schnadower have joined Dr. Bess Marshall as co-directors of the OFD beginning July 1, 2017. Dr. Turmelle is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Gastroenterology …
Funded Awards – September 2017
PI AGENCY TITLE Leonard Bacharier NIH/P01/Harvard University Systems Biology of Airway Disease Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg NIH/R21 Analysis of ADAM10 in infection-associated MODS Cecelia Calhoun SLCH Foundation/Research Grant Healthcare Utilization Amongst Sickle Cell Patients in… Chesney Castleberry DOD/Boston Children’s Hospital Multicenter Randomized Trial of Everolimus in Pediatri… Megan Cooper SLCH Foundation …
Welcome New Faculty, Fellows & Staff – September 2017
FACULTY: Name Title Division Oloruntosin Adepeju Ifedadepo Adeyanju Instructor Hospitalist Medicine Kevin Barton Instructor Nephrology Brittany Blue Instructor Newborn Medicine Amelia Bray-Aschenbrenner Instructor Emergency Medicine Colleen Brennan Instructor Newborn Medicine Lindsay Clukies Instructor Emergency Medicine Tara Copper Instructor Emergency Medicine Michelle Hagene Instructor Hospitalist Medicine George Hoganson Instructor Hospitalist Medicine …
Faculty Feature – Stuart Friess, MD
Stu grew up on the eastern end of Long Island as the oldest of three children. Mom was a school teacher and Dad was a nuclear engineer for the Dept of Energy at Brookhaven National Lab. In 1979. Stu’s Dad was the first DOE official on the ground in response …
Research News – September 2017
2017 Request for Applications, American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants (ACS-IRG) due September 15 Click here for more information KL2 Career Development Awards 2017 Application Cycle Information, open June 1-September 15 Click here for more information NIH Mock Study Section November 14, 2017, 12:00-4:00, CAM., Conference Room 1, LOIs due …
Faculty News
Pediatrics names executive vice chair, three vice chairs The Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has named a distinguished pediatrician the department’s executive vice chair and three others as vice chairs. The positions are new. The department’s head, Gary A. Silverman, MD, PhD, the Harriet B. Spoehrer …
Funding Opportunities – Sept./Oct. 2017
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH R01 Series – new: October 5 U01 – new: October 5 K Series – new: October 12 R03, R21, R33, R21/R33, R34, R36, UH2, UH3, UH2/UH3 – new: October 16 R15 – new, renewal, resubmission, revision: October 25 NIH Due Dates Washington University Internal Competitions – …