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We are excited to announce the appointment of Trish Wilkinson, ACNP-BC, as the Director of APP Clinical Operations within the Division of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology. In tandem, we are pleased to also announce Sarah Cooley, AGACNP-BC, and Shawn Reynolds, MS, MSPAS, PA-C, as Co-Assistant APP Directors.
Paul Kerby, MBBS, has been named the Medical Director for the BJC HealthCare and Washington University School of Medicine Healthcare Innovation Lab starting February 1, 2024.
Dolores Njoku, MD, has recently been appointed as the Board Chair for the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER).
Nicole Durko, DO, has been appointed Associate Chief of the Division of Obstetric Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, effective January 1, 2024.
Jose Moron-Concepcion, PhD, a professor of anesthesiology, neuroscience, and psychiatry, was installed as the Henry Elliot Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on Thursday, September 28, 2023.
Justin Knittel, MD, will serve as Interim Division Chief for our new Division of Trauma Anesthesiology, effective August 1, 2023
Dr. York Jiao has been appointed as the inaugural Director of Clinical Informatics, effective August 1, 2023.
Anne DeSchryver and Corrin Noel have been appointed as Co-Executive Directors for the Department of Anesthesiology, effective on January 1, 2024.
The Department of Anesthesiology is thrilled to announce the appointment of Abby Bisch, DNP, CRNA, and Elvira Sayfutdinova, MSN, CRNA, as the inaugural co-directors of our CRNA Mentorship Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Vivian Gonzalez-Perez, PhD, a highly accomplished scholar whose research focus is ion channel biophysics and physiology, is being promoted from research instructor to tenure track assistant professor on July 1, 2023. Her appointment marks a significant milestone in her career, as she prepares to make further groundbreaking contributions to the scientific community.