Our success is intimately linked to the accomplishments of each and every member of our department.
Each month, four members are nominated and featured to celebrate their commitment to patient care, education, and research.
Current Featured Anesthesiology Department Members
Christy Boyle, CRNA, DNP
Nurse Anesthetist
Jeff Goff
Research Technician
Jena Isaacson
Clinical Informaticist
Andrew Wilkey, MD
Resident Physician
Featured Anesthesiology Department Members Archive
Derek Clary, DO
Resident Physician, Class of 2024
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: December 2023
Derek Clary, DO, is currently a CA-3 resident at WashU/BJH. Dr. Clary has lived in many different places across the country, traveling for work before starting medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in 2016. After living in the Midwest for eight years now, he has grown accustomed to the niceties of the Midwest. Although he will always consider himself a proud Californian, he now happily calls St. Louis home and plans to stay here after training.
In his past life, he enjoyed playing music and basketball. In his current life, he enjoys cooking, playing pickleball with his family and friends, and going on walks with his fiancée Melissa and their dog Tillie.
Derek reports 2023 to be one of his most exciting years yet! This year he matched into the Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship at WashU/St. Louis Children’s Hospital, became engaged to Melissa, and this month they will be getting another puppy just in time for the holidays!
Fun Fact: Although he is entering Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship next year, he is still learning how to correctly hold a baby.
Aaron Cone
Research Technician
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: May 2021
Aaron is originally from St. Louis, MO, but grew up in Huntsville, AL. He graduated from Truman State University with a Bachelor of Science in biology in 2018. He currently works in Dr. Aaron Norris’s lab as a research technician II and has been under Dr. Norris’s direct supervision for two years.
Aaron performs experiments on specific in vivo mice strains using chemogenetics and optogenetics to gather information regarding metabolism and thermoregulation. Currently, he is studying the role of Kappa Opioid Receptors (KOR) in thermoregulation, when the KORs are activated, and how the KORs are being modulated.
Aaron was a contributing author to a paper recently published in the scientific journal eLife, titled: “Parabrachial opioidergic projections to preoptic hypothalamus mediate behavioral and physiological thermal defenses,” and is researching the role of KORs and ultimately have a better understanding of KORs endogenous ligand dynorphin.
Aaron likes to play pickleball in his free time and enjoys hanging out with his friends and sister when the opportunity presents itself. In addition, he wants to also give thanks to his mother and grandmother for having an impactful role in his life.
Sarah Cooley, ACNP
Assistant Director APP Program – Critical Care
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: December 2019
Sarah joined the department as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in the CTICU in January 2016 after graduating from the ACNP program at Saint Louis University. She previously worked as a nurse at Barnes-Jewish Hospital for 6 years. She loves caring for cardiac surgery patients and teaching new employees and students. Outside of work, Sarah enjoys spending time with her husband and their 15-month-old daughter, Olivia. In her spare time, she likes to do yoga and work on craft projects.
Andi Cox
Research Administrator
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: March 2023
Andi has been with WashU since September 2011, where she quickly discovered her love of working in research administration. Since 2011, she has worked in the Department of Medicine and Department of Radiology, before finding her home in the Department of Anesthesiology in August of 2019. Andi is currently a research administrator, and enjoys working with PI’s to submit grants and training new team members. Prior to joining WashU, she worked as a research Technician at Pfizer, while also achieving her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Maryville University in 2009.
Andi and her Husband, Greg, have three daughters, ages 18, 15 and 12 (Taylor, Natalie & Lynsey), and two dogs (Luna and Bella). In her free time, she loves to travel to the mountains in Colorado or the beach. She also enjoys spending time with her family and friends at the Lake of the Ozarks, where she and her husband recently purchased a fixer-upper home. In between the never ending projects, she loves to spend time boating or just looking at the water from her deck.