2026 Dean’s Impact Award Recipients (Links to an external site)

The 2026 theme is “Honoring the Focused Excellence of Exemplary Clinicians and Researchers.“ Recipients of the Dean’s Impact Awards represent the compassion, innovation, and commitment required to build dynamic, meaningful, and community-focused efforts to improve clinical care, education, and research. Congratulations to:

Voting Now Open for 2026–2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals (Links to an external site)

Your vote Matters! Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and WashU Medicine are proud to be ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. These rankings help consumers find the best treatment when facing critical medical conditions and complicated procedures, and we appreciate your help in recognizing the hard work and dedication our faculty and staff […]

2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® (Links to an external site)

The Department of Medicine is proud to announce that 170 of our faculty have been selected for the 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® list. The Top Doctors® selection process is entirely merit-based. Doctors cannot pay to be listed. These doctors are best-in-class healthcare providers, embodying excellence in clinical care as well as interpersonal skills. More […]

Washington University 2026 Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Course, 9/10/2026-9/11/2026

Presented ByInterventional Endoscopy Section, Washington University School of Medicine Course Director & Co-DirectorVladimir Kushnir MD FASGE, Koushik Das MD, Koushik Das MD Planning CommitteeLaurie Hopper FNP, Arvind Rengarajan MD, Michelle Baliss, DO, Gabriel Lang, MD This course will provide education through lectures, case discussion, audience question and answer, and hands-on experience with animal models and […]

Dr. Siyan Cao Named ASCI Young Investigator for 2026

Stewart (Siyan) Cao is a spectacular physician-scientist and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology.  His PhD training on the unfolded protein response showed that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is important in intestinal homeostasis and mouse models of IBD. Stewart has continued to pioneer projects on cellular stress response in innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) in […]

Matthew A. Ciorba, MD – William B. Kountz Professor of Medicine (Links to an external site)

Colleagues, it is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. Matthew A. Ciorba as the William B. Kountz Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at WashU Medicine. The Kountz Chair was previously held by Dr. Gus Schoenfeld, Dr. David Alpers and most recently Dr. Deborah Rubin, all exceptional physician scientists. Dr. Ciorba will continue this tradition of […]

$3.2 million grant funds research on computational AI in fistulizing Crohn’s disease (Links to an external site)

Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, MS, an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, and David H. Ballard, MD, an assistant professor of radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, both of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Satish Viswanath, PhD, an associate professor in pediatrics and in biomedical engineering at Emory […]