WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST - Key Persons


Alison Snyder-Warwick

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery / American Association of Plastic Surgeons / Peer Academic Scholarship Award
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery / Secretary, Sir Charles Bell Society

Bruce Hall

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery / Chief Quality Officer, BJC HealthCare

Bryan Meyers

Job Titles:
  • Patrick and Joy Williamson Professor of Surgery Chief, Section of Thoracic Surgery / Vice Chair, American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Christopher Eagon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery

Dirk Spitzer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery

Evarts A. Graham

Job Titles:
  • Surgery Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Gregorio A. Sicard

Job Titles:
  • Vascular Surgery

Jacqueline Saito

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery

Jamie Sauerburger

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Business Affairs

Jason Wellen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery

Jeffrey Blatnik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery

Jeffrey Moley

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Section of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery / General Surgery Chief Resident Mentorship Award

Joaquin Barnoya

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery

John Kirby

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery / Medical Director, Rehabilitation Services, Barnes - Jewish Hospital

John M. Shoenberg

Job Titles:
  • Surgery Chief, Section of Cardiac Surgery

John Mazuski

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery / President, Surgical Infection Society

Julie Margenthaler

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery, and

Kamlesh Patel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery / Medical Director of Craniofacial Surgery, St. Louis Children 's Hospital

L. Michael Brunt

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery / Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Board of Governors

Leisha Elmore

Job Titles:
  • Elmore 's Research Gains International Recognition
General surgery resident Leisha Elmore, MD, was selected to represent the Society of University Surgeons at the Society of Academic & Research Surgery's annual meeting in January 2017 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Her selection was based on research presented at the 2016 Academic Surgical Congress, co-hosted by the Society of University Surgeons and the Association for Academic Surgery. Elmore's abstract was based on a national survey that evaluated gender and other differences in burnout during surgical training. Among the results: The survey found a higher burnout rate among women; a structured mentoring program was associated with a lower rate. Elmore also presented an overview of the research at the American College of Surgeons conference in September 2015. Elmore's principal investigator for the research was assistant professor of surgery Isaiah Turnbull, MD, PhD. Elmore graduated from the School of Medicine in 2013.

Maria B. Majella Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery

Mary Culver

Job Titles:
  • Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery / Interim Senior Associate Dean for Education
  • Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery / Vice Chair, American Board of Surgery

Mary Klingensmith

Job Titles:
  • Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery / Interim Senior Associate Dean for Education
  • Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery / Vice Chair, American Board of Surgery

Matthew Mutch

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery / Executive Council

Melody Goodman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery / Member, City of St. Louis Board of Health and Hospitals

Michael Awad

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery Associate Dean for Medical Student Education

Patrick Geraghty

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery / President, Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society

Paul Austin

Job Titles:
  • Austin Receives Duckett Pediatric Research Excellence Award
  • Professor
  • Professor of Surgery
Paul Austin, MD, professor of surgery in the Division of Urology, received the 2016 John W. Duckett Pediatric Research Excellence Award. The Urology Care Foundation presents the Duckett Award annually to a urologist, basic scientist or researcher for outstanding pediatric research and for contributions to enhancing treatment and quality of life of children suffering with urologic conditions. Austin's basic science research lab is working to advance the understanding of urinary obstruction. A common problem in infants and children, some obstructions can progress to kidney failure without surgery, but other obstructions resolve on their own.

Peter Manning

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery / Member, Joint Committee on Children With Congenital Heart Defects

Phillip J. Wolfson

Job Titles:
  • Outstanding Teacher Award, Association for Surgical Education

Pirooz Eghtesady

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Rebecca Aft

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery Chair, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Study Section / Member, NCI Cancer Biomarkers Study Section

Sam Bhayani

Job Titles:
  • Holekamp Family Endowed Chair in Urology / Chief Medical Officer, Faculty Practice Plan

Scott Manson

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Surgery / Urology Care Foundation Research

Steven Hunt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Surgery

Timothy Eberlein

Job Titles:
  • Eberlein to Chair National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • Surgery Chair
Surgery chair Timothy Eberlein, MD, director of the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, has been elected chair of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) board of directors. The NCCN is a not-for-profit alliance of 27 leading U.S. cancer centers devoted to patient care, research and education. Siteman is the only NCCN member institution in Missouri. Eberlein, also the William K. Bixby Professor of Surgery, had served as the NCCN vice chair since 2013. He has held leadership roles on a number of NCCN committees, including the Executive Committee; the Governance Committee, for which he served as chair; and the NCCN Guidelines Steering Committee. In addition, he has held numerous positions in the fields of cancer and surgery and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Eberlein was elected chair during the NCCN's 21st Annual Conference. He succeeds Samuel M. Silver, MD, PhD, of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Tracey Guthrie

Job Titles:
  • Director of Clinical Trials / Research Nurse of Year, St. Louis Magazine

William G. Hamm

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery / Executive Director, American Board of Plastic Surgery

William Gillanders

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surgery

William K. Bixby - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Surgery Chair, Department of Surgery