For many people, weight loss is not a straight line. Some start with lifestyle changes, others begin treatment with GLP-1 medications and others explore procedural options when they want additional support. According to Vladimir M. Kushnir, MD, a WashU Medicine gastroenterologist, these options do not have to compete with one another. In many cases, they can […]
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center AGENDA2nd Annual IBD Research SymposiumMarch 27, 2026Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC), Seminar Room B 7:30 am – 8:15 am8:15 am – 8:30 am Welcome Breakfast/Sign inIntroductory remarks: Parakkal Deepak and Matthew A. Ciorba KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 8:30 am – 9:00 am Postoperative Crohn’s Disease: Understanding who is high risk for disease […]
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:
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]