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Meaghan Creed, an associate professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has received a $3.3 million five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study dopamine system changes underlying depression symptoms in people with chronic neuropathic pain.
The Department of Anesthesiology is proud to announce that six of its Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) have been named finalists for the March of Dimes Heroes in Action 2025 awards.
Simon Haroutounian, PhD, MSc, has been appointed to the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professorship in Anesthesiology.
Amynah Pradhan, PhD, has been appointed to the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professorships in Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine.
Erin Herrera, CRNA, has been named Co-Director of CRNA Activities for the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine.
Rachel Moquin, EdD, has been appointed as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Professional Development in the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine.
Anne Drewry, MD, MS, Vice Chair and Division Chief of Critical Care Medicine, has been appointed the inaugural Llorin-Roa Professor of Anesthesiology.
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.
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.
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.