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Mitsukuni Yoshida, MD, PhD, a current resident physician in the department’s Academic Scholar Advancement Program (ASAP), has been selected for the prestigious 2024 Emerging-Generation (E-Gen) Awards by the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Enyo Ablordeppey, MD, MPH, FACEP, FCCM, and Erin Herrera, CRNA, were honored with the prestigious Drum Major Award on Tuesday, January 16, recognizing their outstanding efforts as advocates and upstanders.

New study led by Jose Moron-Concepcion, PhD, Khairunisa Mohamad Ibrahim, PhD, and Nicolas Massaly, PhD, delves into the roles of two key brain areas: the dorsal hippocampus (dHPC) and the nucleus accumbens (NAc), and how they interact to govern our pursuit of rewards and positive stimuli in various situations.

Groundbreaking research uncovers sex-based differences in anesthetic sensitivity, suggesting that women may require different anesthetic management from men due to a resistance influenced by hormonal factors like testosterone.

On Christmas Day this year, Dr. David Perlmutter, the Dean of WUSM, accompanied Dr. Avidan around various clinical areas, where they personally thanked WUSM and BJC clinicians for their unwavering service and dedication.

Dolores Njoku, MD, has recently been appointed as the Board Chair for the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER).

The Goldfarb School of Nursing, including the Nurse Anesthesia Program, celebrated its commencement ceremony on Friday, December 15, 2023, at the Stifel Theatre.

Understanding the brain and nervous system is one of the most pressing challenges in medicine. To meet this challenge, WashU Medicine has built and is opening the Neuroscience Research Building, a 609,000-square-foot facility expected to be among the nation’s premier neuroscience research hubs.