Author: Brian

“I knew I would devote my career to fighting gun violence after seeing the devastation wrought on Black men and their families as a WUSTL med student. I was introduced to concepts of neighborhoods, place and health by my mentor during research fellowship. It has been an honor to be part of a large team that is working to dismantle structural racism and its impact on the environment, all with the goal of building healthy and safe Black communities.”

The city of Creve Coeur rededicates park to African-American medical pioneer, Dr. Howard P. Venable, after his family’s land was acquired by eminent domain.

Leading physicians in St. Louis, including physicians affiliated with the School of Medicine, share lessons from the pandemic.

Ebony Carter, MD, associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, works with EleVate, a program led by Black mothers, health care professionals, and local community organizations that provides extra support to Black mothers. By providing extra support to mothers, the group hopes to address the fact that African-American women are three times more likely to die during childbirth than white women.

J. Gmerice Hammond, MD, a cardiologist and health policy research fellow in the Cardiovascular Division at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Merck Fellowship Research Award from the Association of Black Cardiologists and the American College of Cardiology.

Dolores B. Njoku, MD, a noted clinician, researcher and mentor, has been named the director of pediatric anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and anesthesiologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. With the post, she will become the new Rudolph L. and Mary Frances Wise Endowed Chair in Pediatric Anesthesiology. She also has been appointed a vice chair in the Department of Anesthesiology.

An internationally respected maternal-fetal medicine expert, Anthony Odibo, MD, has been named director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine & Ultrasound in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine.