Renée Shellhaas, MD, MS, was installed as the David T. Blasingame Professor on Monday, June 8. The ceremony included remarks from David H. Perlmutter, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and the George and Carol Bauer Dean of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD, head of the […]
Irwin Levy Resident Teaching Award outstanding teaching by a Neurology resident Neurology Clerkship Student Teaching Award faculty chosen by the students Neurology Clerkship Student Faculty Teaching Award Honor Roll Neurology Clerkship Student Resident Teaching Award Honor Roll Sven Eliasson Award for Teaching Excellence outstanding teaching by an adult Neurology attending Adult Neurology Teaching Excellence Honor […]
Please join us in extending our warmest congratulations to Anne Wagner, RN, RSN, who has been named the 2026 St. Louis Magazine Excellence in Nursing Award winner for neurology. This is an outstanding accomplishment and a reflection of the compassion, skill and dedication she brings to her work every day. Nurses are truly the backbone […]
Four members of WashU Medicine Neurology have been elected into the WashU Medicine Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Honor Medical Society as part of the AΩA Class of 2026: AΩA is a national organization — founded in 1902 — that values high quality patient care, leadership, service and scholarship. The Society’s aims are […]
Claire Clelland, MD, PhD, MPhil, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, has been selected as the winner of the 2025 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award. A ceremony to celebrate her was held April 24, 2026, in the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium on […]
Autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease (ADAD) is a form of genetically inherited Alzheimer’s that makes up only about 1% of Alzheimer’s disease occurrences. However, because of the extremely high rate and early age at which individuals with the gene mutations develop Alzheimer’s disease, and also because of the high heritability of the mutation, ADAD is widely […]
With an increasingly aging global population and no available preventative treatments, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are poised to become an even larger public health challenge. The mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease are difficult to study because the disease has a long developmental period during which changes in the brain can occur years before symptoms appear. […]
The Department of Neurology congratulates four staff members for being awarded the Neurology Staff Employees of the Quarter for Q3 FY26. The department accepts nominations for three award categories to highlight the dedication and accomplishments of our staff members — clinical, research and administration. Clinical Staff Employee of the Quarter Paulette Frazier Patient Billing Services […]
WashU Medicine has been awarded nearly $800,000 by the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot program, an initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Microsoft to develop AI tools aimed at improving biomedical research efficiency, with an initial focus on Alzheimer’s disease. The grant will fund the Consortium for Biomedical Research and AI […]
On April 8, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recognized investigators who received their first R01 research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Receiving an R01 grant is an important milestone for scientists who are establishing their careers as independent researchers. Bhooma R. Aravamuthan, MD, DPhil, FAAN, FCNS, assistant professor of […]