Congratulations and welcome to our 2026-2027 residency intern class! We are so excited to welcome this diverse and fantastic group of trainees who are among the best of the best. The Adult Neurology cohort will begin its PGY1 Preliminary Medicine year in July 2026 and its PGY2 Neurology training in July 2027. The Pediatric Neurology […]
WashU Medicine Neurology is very pleased to announce that Bhooma Aravamuthan, MD, DPhil, FAAN, FCNS, will join the leadership of the department as chief of the Section of Cerebral Palsy and Pediatric Movement Disorders in the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology. Aravamuthan earned her undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry, Physiology and Bioethics at Michigan State […]
Dallas Pierson has been dedicated to healthcare since the age of 14, developing a strong foundation rooted in compassion, discipline and service to others. Growing up in the field shaped Pierson’s work ethic early on and instilled a deep respect for responsibility, teamwork and continuous learning. Caring for others isn’t just what Pierson does – […]
The Department of Neurology is pleased to announce our Neurology Residency Program chief residents for the 2026-2027 academic year. This group of remarkable individuals will be working with their resident colleagues, staff, faculty and leadership to continue strengthening our program as a leader in neurology residency training. Thank you to our current chief residents, Drs. […]
Nico U. F. Dosenbach, MD, PhD, was installed as the inaugural David M. and Tracy S. Holtzman Professor of Neurology on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. 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. […]
Less than 48 hours after he learned he would not be a Rhodes Scholar, WashU senior Omar Abdelmoity hopped on a plane to interview for the equally prestigious — yet somehow more elusive — Marshall Scholarship. Only seven WashU students had been awarded the Marshall since its founding in 1953, compared to the university’s 30 Rhodes […]
Alyssa Hiserote earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and later completed her Master of Science in Nursing at UIC as well. After five years of bedside nursing with a focus in pediatrics, she chose to pursue her passion for research and accepted a Research Nurse Coordinator position […]
Nearly 7 million Americans currently live with Alzheimer’s and by 2060, experts say that number could be as high as 14 million. Scientists are trying to find out how one man has been able to stave off Alzheimer’s for 25 years, despite having a rare genetic mutation that, doctors say, essentially guaranteed he’d develop the […]
Brendan Whitelaw, MD, PhD, is a third year in the Adult Neurology Residency Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He is planning to specialize in vascular neurology and pursue a career as a physician scientist studying the molecular mechanisms driving cerebrovascular disease. Whitelaw went to college at the University of Pennsylvania, […]
Sarah Biber, PhD, is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work integrates data science, bioinformatics, human-centered systems engineering, and implementation science. From 2021 to 2025, she co-led the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) as Executive Director and multi-Principal Investigator (mPI), guiding its transformation into a modern multimodal cloud-based platform that integrates longitudinal clinical, imaging, neuropathological, biomarker, genomic […]