King appointed POD 5 Physician Leader
Ryan King, MD, PhD has been appointed as an Anesthesiology Physician Leader in POD 5 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH).
Moquin appointed Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Professional Development
Rachel Moquin, EdD, has been appointed as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Professional Development in the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine.
Drewry named inaugural Llorin-Roa Professor of Anesthesiology
Anne Drewry, MD, MS, Vice Chair and Division Chief of Critical Care Medicine, has been appointed the inaugural Llorin-Roa Professor of Anesthesiology.
Two anesthesiology faculty recognized by the Academy of Educators
At this year’s Education Day, Dr. Allison Mitchell was inducted as a new member of the Academy and Dr. Rachel Moquin received the Rising Star Award.
St. Louis Pain Research Forum Fosters Collaboration and Discovery
Scientists, clinicians, and trainees gathered at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis (UHSP) this past September for the second St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum (STL-TPRF), an event designed to foster collaboration and mentorship within the region’s growing pain research community.
Personalized brain modeling of anesthetic effects to predict antidepressant response (Links to an external site)
With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ShiNung Ching and Ben Palanca seek to develop personalized medicine strategies for treatment-resistant depression that would tailor drug dosage based on a patient’s age, genetics, health conditions, brain dynamics and neural circuits.
Moseley Awarded AAPA-PAEA Research Fellowship
Megan Moseley, PA-C, has been selected as one of only three people nationwide to receive the 2025–26 AAPA-PAEA Research Fellowship. She is the first physician assistant (PA) from WashU Medicine to earn this honor since the fellowship’s inception.
Novel technologies underway to help those with spinal cord injuries move (Links to an external site)
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at WashU Medicine plans to investigate the neural mechanisms behind various controls of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in generating different leg movements with a five-year, nearly $3 million grant the National Institutes of Health (NIH).







