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
Jasmine Crane
Administrative Coordinator II, Division of Critical Care Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: September 2023
Jasmine Crane is currently an Administrative Coordinator II in the Division of Critical Care Medicine for the Department of Anesthesiology. She has been with the division since 2017 and hopes to continue growing with Critical Care and Anesthesiology for the foreseeable future!
Jasmine came to St. Louis from Tallahassee with her boyfriend, AJ, and their two dogs (a dachshund named Toby and a pit bull mix named Harley) a year after graduating from Florida State University with a BA in Media/Communication Studies. Initially, wanting to become an investigative journalist, Jasmine has since found new interests and passions that keep her busy, such as baking, yoga, fitness activities, cooking, and traveling. She recently completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2023 and is looking forward to continuing with that journey! She was born in Texas, and then lived in Alaska for 11 years before moving to north Florida to complete high school and college. Her move to STL is hopefully a big step toward getting her back out west where she feels most at home with the mountains and snow.
In her spare time, you can find Jasmine baking something delicious, taking various types of fitness classes, attempting to work through her to-be-read list of books, spending time with her boyfriend and puppers, and daydreaming about moving to the European countryside!
Meaghan Creed, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: July 2019
Meaghan is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology. She joined the Department in October 2018 as the newest member of the WU Pain Center, where her lab focuses on how chronic pain and withdrawal from addictive drugs alter synaptic plasticity in the ventral basal ganglia. Dr. Creed is a twice-over immigrant and is especially proud of her ability to fix almost any broken piece of lab equipment with willpower and duct tape.
Jessi Cucinello-Ragland, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: March 2025
Jessi is an NRSA-funded postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Jose Moron-Concepcion. Born and raised just outside of New Orleans, LA, their interest in science began during their time as an undergraduate at the University of Mississippi. While working in a preclinical psychopharmacology lab, they developed an early interest in refining and developing animal models for studying co-morbid pain and substance use disorders. This interest blossomed into a passion for pain and addiction neuroscience that they continued to pursue during their graduate training at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Their graduate work identified sex-specific contributions of the endogenous cannabinoid system in mediating the anti-nociceptive, or pain-relieving, effects of alcohol. Jessi’s current research is furthering this line of investigation by investigating neural substrates underlying pain-opioid interactions, with an emphasis on concurrent opioid and alcohol use.
Outside of the lab, Jessi enjoys spending time with their loved ones, chasing around their rambunctious toddler, and cooking, baking, and eating as much delicious food as they can. As a New Orleans-native, food is their passion, and while at WashU, Jessi’s goal is to find the best food St. Louis has to offer.
Nicholas C. Curdt, DNAP, CRNA
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
Department of Anesthesiology Featured Member: September 2022
Nick has been a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) with the Department of Nurse Anesthesia for almost two years. He is primarily based at Missouri Baptist Medical Center as part of the cardiothoracic team for the past eigh years and occasionally floating to BJH POD3/CPC for the last two years.
In 2002, he completed his BSN from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he was also a Mizzou Cheerleader. After working in the SICU at Boone Hospital for a brief stint, he returned to school at Webster University where he received his MS in Nurse Anesthesia in 2006 and then his DNAP from the University of Michigan in 2019. His future plans include obtaining further certification in simulation and possibly a PhD.
Nick believes in contributing back to his profession by teaching. Since 2009 he has taught anesthesia at Webster University, SIU-Edwardsville, and Goldfarb. Nick is currently the associate program director for the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Webster University. He is also their director of simulation in charge of simulation curriculum and simulation research. His current focus is 3D printing in simulation and collaborative biomedical innovation in simulation.
Since joining WUDA, Nick has enjoyed the interaction between the dichotomy of private practice and that of academia. Nick believes that the team approach on the cardiothoracic team has expanded to include the anesthesiology intensivists, improving the program for the long term and increasing patient safety. He looks forward to continuing that process.
A St. Louis native (Marquette High School – go mustangs!), Nick is married to his wife Regan, and has a son Abel (15) and daughter Olive (11). He has a sister who is a professional golfer who he hasn’t beaten in golf since he was 12.