Congratulations to the members of the Department of Neurology who received accolades through the Supporting a Fair Environment (SAFE) program! SAFE aims to improve the learning environment by promoting positive behaviors and managing concerns about learner mistreatment and unprofessional behaviors. SAFE accolades include treating others with dignity and respect, creating an environment that values diversity, […]
The Department of Neurology is pleased to announce 67 of our faculty members have been selected as 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctors®. We are proud of our physicians for their dedication to their work and patients each and every day. Each year, Castle Connolly uses a merit-based system to select board-certified physicians for its Top […]
The goal of the $10,000 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award is to recognize and encourage early career investigators who have demonstrated bold, pioneering research that is high-risk by virtue of being fundamentally different from standard approaches. The intent is to encourage scientific research investigators to challenge status quo approaches by developing fundamentally different methods, approaches, […]
Joseph T. Black, MD, a retired professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at his home in Clayton. He was 85. Black was a longtime member of the Department of Neurology’s clinical teaching faculty and part of Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s neurology practice since 1976. In recognition […]
Funding from Ron Shaich helps advance promising drug development at WashU Medicine
Scientists know that many proteins and pathways are involved in the development and progression of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and that these proteins can be detected in the plasma of people with the conditions. But it hasn’t been clear exactly which proteins are distinct to one disease […]
WashU Medicine Neurology welcomed six new faculty to the department in July 2025. We are grateful and excited to have these talented individuals join our team and look forward to seeing their contributions and achievements throughout their careers with us.
Edmond J. Safra Fellowship to fund training of movement disorder specialist in the Department of Neurology
Michael Petrany Co-administrative Chief Where I’m from Huntington, West Virginia Brief background about my education/training I moved to Cincinnati, Ohio for college at Xavier University and stayed in the city for the MD/PhD program at University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. I completed my PhD in Doug Millay’s lab studying mechanisms of myoblast fusion […]
Arthur L. Prensky, MD, a professor emeritus of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Monday, June 16, 2025, after a short illness. He was 94. Over his 45-year career, Prensky became a world authority in metabolic disorders, headache and neurodevelopment.