Allison Mitchell, MD, appointed Program Director for Residency Program
Dr. Mitchell will oversee the recruitment and training of a diverse and clinically excellent group of residents to become leaders in the field. She will continuously assess and improve our residency program and will be instrumental in the development of new initiatives focused on enhancing the training of our residents.
WashU’s Anesthesiology Residency Program named one of nation’s top programs
Doximity, an online network for medical professionals, recently ranked WashU’s anesthesiology residency program among the top ten training programs in its specialty.
Bhavi Mehta, MD, appointed Director of Anesthesia Service in CAM Gastroenterology Suite
Dr. Mehta will partner with WUSM colleagues, BJH leadership and frontline clinicians to promote efficiency, safety and quality of patient care in the Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) Gastroenterology Suite.
Bradley Fritz, MD, MSCI, appointed Associate ICU Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit
In his new role as Associate Director, he will partner with SICU Co-Directors and nursing leadership to ensure delivery of outstanding clinical care to our critically ill surgical patients.
Study reveals new opportunities for understanding addiction, depression
In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, Dr. Ream Al-Hasani and colleagues have identified a new role for a GABA projection in reward processing which could lead to new treatments for addiction and depression.
$6.2 million grant to fund Center for Perioperative Mental Health (Links to an external site)
Clinicians and researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a four-year, $6.2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to launch a center designed to help improve mental health in surgery patients, particularly older surgery patients. The center will conduct studies to identify and treat depression and anxiety in surgical patients. This new center is the first NIH-funded center of its kind in the United States.
New findings published from large-scale African research initiative into post-operative mortality
The ASOS-2 project was a response to the findings in ASOS-1, that African surgical patients are twice as likely to die in the hospital after surgery than the international average. The project aimed to shift the limited existing resources available for postoperative surveillance towards those patients at higher risk of developing postoperative complications.
Bernadette Henrichs, PhD, CRNA, CCRN, CHSE, FAANA, joins inaugural class of American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Fellows
The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) recently awarded Dr. Henrichs the designation of Fellow of the AANA (FAANA), a recognized hallmark of leadership and professionalism in the profession and science of nurse anesthesia.