Welcome to our 2024 residency matches!

Welcome to our 2024 residency matches!
Congratulations and welcome to our 2024-2025 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 2024 and its PGY2 Neurology training in July 2025. The Pediatric Neurology […]

WashU Medicine rises to No. 2 in nation in NIH research funding (Links to an external site)

WashU Medicine rises to No. 2 in nation in NIH research funding
In the realm of biomedical research, securing funding is a testament to an institution’s record of scientific accomplishments and potential for further advances to improve human health. In 2023, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received the second-highest amount of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of all medical schools nationwide. […]

Shellhaas receives Child Neurology Society’s highest honor (Links to an external site)

Shellhaas receives Child Neurology Society’s highest honor
Renée Shellhaas, MD, the David T. Blasingame Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded the Child Neurology Society’s (CNS) 2024 Hower Award. The organization’s highest honor, the award is given annually to a pediatric neurologist recognized as an outstanding teacher and scholar, and for making significant contributions to […]

Expansion of Telestroke Program connects BJC hospitals to experts 24/7 (Links to an external site)

Expansion of Telestroke Program connects BJC hospitals to experts 24/7
The expansion of the BJC HealthCare Telestroke Program, which began at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH), was officially complete in 2023 with the addition of Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. The Telestroke Program connects all 14 BJC hospitals to Washington University School of Medicine stroke physician specialists 24/7/365 through a virtual care platform to identify and treat acute […]

Ju named Morriss Professor (Links to an external site)

Ju named Morriss Professor
Neurologist Yo-El Ju, MD, a physician-scientist whose discoveries have illuminated the complex relationship between sleep and neurodegenerative disease, has been named an inaugural Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.