The people powering WashU Medicine
Faculty and staff profiles, conversations with leaders and experts, and honors and awards
Across our missions, there is a deep understanding that we are here to make a better world. We do it through teaching the next generation, researching cures for our most devastating illnesses, and caring for the people who come to us every day with the hope that we can do something to improve their lives. All of you have made your own singular contributions to our success. We have done this together.
— David H. Perlmutter, MD, WashU Medicine Dean
Class Acts 2026: Ariel Hernandez-Leyva (Links to an external site)
Hernandez-Leyva’s basic scientific discoveries help advance medicine.
Bateman and Holtzman receive 2026 American Innovator Award (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine neurologists honored for blood-based Alzheimer’s diagnostic test.
One patient’s story inspired emergency room physician to develop Hospital to Housing program (Links to an external site)
In caring for unhoused patients, Randall Jotte, MD, brings more than medicine.
WashU Medicine faculty and fellows recognized at Confluence awards (Links to an external site)
Brown and Morgan among several WashU Medicine faculty and fellows recognized at the Confluence Award Research Showcase.
Facilitating clinically relevant interventions (Links to an external site)
Working behind the scenes to support the production of early-phase clinical therapies, Elaine Bertke plays a key role in the Biologic Therapy Core Facility at WashU Medicine.
Embracing opportunities, touching lives (Links to an external site)
Serving as a medical secretary for Pediatric Neurology, LaMont Reed finds motivation in the daily opportunities to impact others’ lives.
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Honors and awards
WashU in top 10 universities for translating discoveries into real-world solutions (Links to an external site)
New Cure Innovation Index cites strengths in research, institutional support for commercializing biomedical advances made in WashU labs.
Vermette named Macy Faculty Scholar
Physician-educator aims to prevent burnout among medical residents.
Powell installed as president of gynecologic oncology society
Nationally recognized physician-scientist will lead effort to advance gynecologic cancer care.
Davidson receives distinguished mentor award
Physician-scientist recognized for dedication to next generation of gastroenterology leaders.
Two WashU Medicine researchers named Perlmutter Career Development Assistant Professors
Chang-Panesso studies kidney repair; Oviedo works to understand the brain’s processing of sound, speech
Miller honored with Potamkin Prize for dementia research
Recognized for advancing strategies to develop novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases