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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 […]

The Department of Medicine is proud to announce that we have 75 matched fellows. These physicians bring talent, curiosity and drive to their program built on teamwork and discovery.

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 […]

The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital Raises $2 Million To Establish Innovative Program To Prevent Stomach and Pancreatic Cancers