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Listed below are medical related stories and experts. For more specific medical information, check out the groups and topics listed to the right.

Faculty Experts:

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Matthew Kreuter

Professor

Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.


Expertise: Health communication, cancer prevention and control, health disparities

Direct contact: 314-935-3701 / mkreuter@wustl.edu


Graham Colditz

Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Siteman Cancer Center

Colditz
Colditz

Dr. Colditz is an Epidemiologist and Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Niess-Gain Family Professor in Medicine, Department of Surgery, at Washington ...



Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu


John McCarthy

Professor of Mathematics

John McCarthy's field is a kind of analysis called operator theory, which he defines as the study of matrices in infinite dimensional space. It is most directly linked to quantum mechanics, a physics theory involving elementary particles such as the electron that predicts the outcomes of physical ...


Expertise: mathematics, pure mathematics, operator theory, quantum mechanics

Direct contact: (314) 935-6753 / mccarthy@wustl.edu


Bradley P. Stoner

Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts and Sciences

Dr. Stoner, who joined the Infectious Disease division in 1995, holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences. He studied anthropology at Harvard University and McGill University, and received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. He completed residency ...


Expertise: anthropology, public health, medicine, sexually transmitted diseases, biomedicine, medical anthropology, anthropology of public health, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5673 / bstoner@wustl.edu


William Peck

Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine

William Peck
William Peck

Peck, former dean of the School of Medicine, directs the University's Center for Health Policy. Revolutionary scientific advances promise great improvements in the prevention and diagnosis of disease and the treatment of patients. But major obstacles must be overcome before this enormous potential ...


Expertise: Health care policy, health care costs, disparities in access to care, workforce issues

Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu



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News Stories & Tip Sheets:

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Treatment for retired football players

Washington University Orthopedics participating in NFL spine treatment program

June 30, 2009 --
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Riew
The National Football League has announced a new spine treatment program for retired players, and orthopedics specialists at the School of Medicine have been chosen to participate. K. Daniel Riew, the Mildred B. Simon Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and chief of the cervical spine service for Washington University Orthopedics, is one of five U.S. spine specialists selected to participate in the new NFL program.


Heart valve 'redo'

Four out of 106 heart replacement valves from pig hearts failed

June 29, 2009 -- Pig heart valves used to replace defective aortic valves in human patients failed much earlier and more often than expected, says a report from cardiac surgeons at the School of Medicine. This is the first report to demonstrate this potential problem, the researchers say.


Understanding dementia

$10 million grant awarded for healthy aging and Alzheimer's studies

June 25, 2009 -- Alzheimer's disease researchers at the School of Medicine have won renewal of a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to study the differences between people who remain mentally spry in the golden years of life and those who develop dementia.



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David Holtzman: Attacking Alzheimer's With a New Test for Amyloid Beta
U.S. News & World Report online

July 1, 2009 -- WUSTL neuroscientist David Holtzman and colleagues have devised a test that shows whether an experimental medication has a chance of working in Alzheimer's patients.


Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson: Taking Cancer's Genetic Measure
U.S. News & World Report online

July 1, 2009 -- WUSTL biochemists Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson helped decode the human genome and are now working to find genetic mutations associated with acute myeloid leukemia.


Patterns: Drinking Age Affects Bingeing, to a Point
The New York Times

June 30, 2009 -- A new study in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that as the drinking age has gone up, binge drinking has gone down -- except among college students. Includes comments by study leader WUSTL psychiatry professor Richard Grucza.


Jobs Had Liver Transplant
The Wall Street Journal

June 22, 2009 -- Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a controversial liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially. WUSTL pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery professor William Hawkins and surgery professor William Chapman both comment.


Study: 'Depression Gene' Doesn't Predict the Blues
Time.com

June 17, 2009 -- Are some people hardwired to get the blues? Scientists have long believed that a tendency toward melancholy runs in families. A new study published on June 16 in JAMA now threatens to send researchers back to the drawing board. The meta-analysis of 14 prior studies concludes that the so-called depression gene may not be associated with an elevated risk for depression, as many researchers had believed. WUSTL psychiatric geneticist Alexandre Todorov, whose 2007 peer-reviewed study was included in the JAMA piece, comments.



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