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William Chapman

Professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Transplantation

Chapman, also chief of the abdominal transplantation section, is a highly respected liver transplant specialist. He researches image-guided liver surgery and minimizing the effects of liver injury.


Expertise: liver transplant, abdominal transplant, hepatobiliary surgery

Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu


Graham Colditz

Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Siteman Cancer Center

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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


Marc Hammerman

Chromalloy Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine

Hammerman is a leader in the emerging field of organogenesis, which focuses on growing organs from stem cells and other embryonic cell clusters known as organ primordia. Unlike stem cells, which can become virtually any cell type, primordia are locked into becoming a particular cell type or one of ...


Expertise: Organogenesis, organ, transplant, kidney, pancreas, diabetes, kidney failure, …

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu


Ira Kodner

Director of the Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics

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Kodner directs one of the only comprehensive programs in ethics and human values at a university in the United States. While other centers study human values, most are located in a particular school and address particular topics. The Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics supports the study, ...


Expertise: Ethics, health care policy

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


Susan Mackinnon

Sydney M. Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Professor of Surgery and chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Mackinnon established her world-wide reputation as a surgeon in 1988 by completing the first donor nerve transplant, a procedure that can restore feeling to severely injured limbs. Her success as a surgeon is built on years of research on immunology and nerve regeneration and preservation. She also ...


Expertise: Nerve regeneration and transplantation, carpal tunnel syndrome, hand surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery

Media assistance: (314) 286-0119 / millerbe@wustl.edu


Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson is a board certified vascular surgeon with dozens of publications and awards to his credit. He owns two patents for devices related to vascular surgical procedures. He specializes in treating aortic and vascular aneurysms.


Expertise: General vascular procedures, abdominal aortic aneurysm, AAA
Frank Yin

Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; The Stephen and Camilla Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...


Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics

Direct contact: (314) 935-6164 / yin@wustl.edu



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