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Leadership Connection | A message from Dean Levy
Category: Our People
A Q&A with Maya Jerath: Physician-scientist on the frontline of alpha-gal syndrome
As tick season expands across the Midwest, Jerath is studying the allergic condition and helping patients navigate a diagnosis that remains poorly understood.
Physician, educator Amjad Musleh mentors aspiring physicians in compassionate care (Links to an external site)
Musleh meets with students individually and in small groups to navigate challenges and celebrate successes.
The transformative influence of a doctor who hasn’t forgotten his past (Links to an external site)
As part of an orientation program he designed, Will Ross, MD, MPH, exposes first-year medical students to blighted St. Louis neighborhoods — not unlike the ones of his own childhood.
Physician-scientist brings empathy, compassion to families with children in critical care (Links to an external site)
Pediatrician Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, MD, PhD, often visits her former patients when they return to St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Student Ariel Hernandez-Leyva helps advance medicine with groundbreaking research (Links to an external site)
Hernandez-Leyva’s basic scientific discoveries help advance medicine.
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.
Leading with empathy, managing finances (Links to an external site)
Isabelle Smith works behind the scenes as the Director of Finance and Administration for the Office of Health Informatics and Data Sciences.
Many hats, singular focus (Links to an external site)
Working as an event coordinator in the Operations & Facilities Management Department, Mary Hammett connects a wide range of people to WashU Medicine.