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
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.
Demonstrating WashU Medicine’s strengths (Links to an external site)
Lauren Hurt, assistant director of auxiliary services for the Operations and Facilities Management Department, brings people and events together to demonstrate what makes WashU — WashU.
Fostering community, wellness and equity (Links to an external site)
Floyd Boykin, patient financial specialist in the Physicians Billing Service department, enhances his team’s experience through his example, leadership.
Supporting the next generation of researchers (Links to an external site)
Adisa Kalkan approaches her work as project administrator for the Clinical Research Training Center with wisdom, humility, leading with integrity.
Navigating the research funding landscape (Links to an external site)
Serving in the Department of Surgery as a grants specialist, Danielle Schulte seeks to help end cancer, provide global solutions and train the next generation of scientists.
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Honors and awards
Colditz, Jiang receive Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
WashU Medicine researchers developed AI tool that refines breast-cancer risk prediction.
WashU Medicine’s Ritchey receives Gloria White Award (Links to an external site)
Veteran lab manager dedicated to advancing research on stem cell therapies.
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.
WashU Medicine faculty elected to Association of American Physicians (Links to an external site)
Pulmonologist Steven Brody and neurologists Jin-Moo Lee and Timothy Miller recognized for excellence in biomedical research.
Vermette named Macy Faculty Scholar
Physician-educator aims to prevent burnout among medical residents.
Bateman and Holtzman receive 2026 American Innovator Award (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine neurologists honored for blood-based Alzheimer’s diagnostic test.