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
Ream Al-Hasani, PhD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Ashley DuBois, CRNA
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
Ivan Torres
Assistant Supervisor for Insurance Billing
Muthu Vijayasankar, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Featured Anesthesiology Department Members Archive
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.
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.