Funded Grants January 2022
PI Agency Title Mohamed Abdelbaki SLCH Foundation Neuro-Onc Fellowship Year 2 Sarah Garwood SLCH Foundation The SPOT at Jennings High School (A School-Based Health Center) Robert Hayashi St. Baldrick’s Foundation/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Health Effects After Anthracycline and Radiation Therapy (HEART) – Dexazoxane and Prevention of Anythracycline-related Cardiomyopathy (ALTE11C2) Jennifer …
Bess Marshall, MD, Steps Down from OFD
After 12 years, Bess Marshall, MD, Professor of Pediatrics in Endocrinology and Diabetes, will be stepping down from her position as co-director for the Pediatric Office of Faculty Development. Marshall first came to WashU in 1990 to complete her fellowship in endocrinology after obtaining her medical degree from Vanderbilt and completing …
Faculty Feature Michelle Gill
Part of a military family, I spent my childhood in many places including Maine, Alaska, and Michigan. I remember the joy of playing in Alaska snow in the dark days of winter and building massive snow caves and tunnels in our yard in northern Michigan. My father’s last Air Force …
New Employees January 2022
Name Division Title Christine Bereitschaft Hematology/Oncology Clinical Research Coordinator I Katelyn Biros Genetics Dietitian/Nutritionist Bridget Brengle Nephrology DBBS Pre Doc Trainee Holly Broaddus Allergy, Immunology, Pulmonary Cardiopulmonary/Pulmonary Function Technician Chelsie Carter Endocrinology Patient Billing/Services Representative II Lexandra Dreste Allergy, Immunology, Pulmonary Cardiopulmonary/Pulmonary Function Technician Samuel Jeyasingh Infectious Disease Postdoc Research …
Funded Grants December 2021
PI Agency Title Mohamed Abdelbaki SLCH Foundation Neuro Oncology and Investigational New Drug Support Year 9 Mohamed Abdelbaki NIH/R01/University of Alabama at Birmingham Ph1 Study of HSV G207 in Pediatric Malignant Cerebellar Tumors IND Megan Cooper NIH/R21 Genetic Mosaicism in Inborn Errors of Immunity Patricia Dickson NIH/R33 Recombinant Alpha-N-Acetylglucosaminidase with …
New Employees December 2021
Faculty Name Division Title Angela Shaw Hematology/Oncology Assistant Professor Staff Name Division Title Kyle Aldridge Allergy, Immunology, Pulmonary Nurse Practitioner John Altpeter Allergy, Immunology, Pulmonary Research Technician II Renee Corpus Central Admin Senior Department Accounting Assistant KC Donaldson Hematology/Oncology Clinical Research Coordinator I Chytia Freeman Adolescent Medicine Case Worker I …
Faculty Feature Melissa Riley
Melissa Riley, MD, grew up in northeast Ohio with about 70 rotating siblings over her childhood years. Her family was a foster family and eventually adopted four of those children to add to the biological group. As No. 2 of the now eight, Riley found caring for and teaching the …
Funded Grants November 2021
PI Agency Title Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg SLCH Foundation Center for Vaccines and Immunity to Microbial Pathogens Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg NIH/SBIR/STTR/Forward Defense, LLC Development of a Pre-Exposure Vaccine for Population-Level Protection Against Staphylococcus aureus Infection Regina Clemens NIH/R01 Membrane potential and Calcium Signaling in Neutrophil Development and Inflammation Jonathan Cooper Neurogene …
Faculty Feature Rebecca Same
Rebecca (Becca) Same, MD, grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with her parents and older brother. Her father was an obstetrician. As a child, Same swore she would never become a doctor, but by the time she started college, she had started to reconsider. She attended Georgetown University and majored …
New Employees November 2021
Faculty Name Title Division Orsola Di Martino Instructor Hematology/Oncology Rachael Rose Instructor Critical Care Medicine Staff Name Title Division Lisa Andrews-Kaminsky Senior Research Technician Genetics Amri Anurudran Graduate Student Research Assistant Emergency Medicine Renay Bryant Clinical Research Study Assistant II Gastroenterology Emily Burns Research Nurse Coordinator ll Allergy, Immunology, Pulmonary …