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David Carr

Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurology

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Carr

Carr's interests are in caring for older adults in outpatient and long-term care settings. His current projects include research on the safety of older drivers, and evaluating the efficacy of units dedicated to oncology acute care and cardiology acute care for the elderly. Carr is the clinical director ...


Expertise: geriatrics, nutritional science, memory, aging

Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu


Michael Diamond

Assistant professor of molecular microbiology

Diamond is an expert in the effects of West Nile Virus (WNV) and other mosquito-borne viruses on the human immune and nervous systems. He uses mouse models to study the viruses' ability to infect the central nervous system and has identified genetic factors that can increase the chances a WNV infection ...


Expertise: Dengue, West Nile Virus, West Nile encephalitis, vaccine, vaccination, immunity, hemorrhagic fever, …

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


Seth Eisen

Professor of Medicine

Eisen, who also is a physician at the St. Louis Veteran's Administration Hospital, led a large study that compared the health of veterans deployed in the first Gulf War to that of veterans deployed elsewhere. Ten years after the end of the first Gulf War, that study found most Gulf War veterans were ...


Expertise: Epidemiology, veteran’s health, Gulf War, Vietnam, veterans, military

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


Bradley Evanoff

Chief of the Division of General Medical Sciences

Evanoff also heads the Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and holds the Richard A. and Elizabeth Henby Sutter Chair in Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Evanoff's scholarly activities involve three main areas in occupational health: the epidemiology and prevention ...


Expertise: work-related musculoskeletal disorders, work-related health problems in health-care workers, evaluation of occupational medicine education

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


Brian Gage

Associate professor of medicine

Gage is an internist and health service researcher. He specializes in two related fields: antithrombotic therapy and stroke prevention. He has developed a formula that can help predict the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. These patients have a fivefold increased risk of stroke. ...


Expertise: antithrombotic therapy, stroke, atrial fibrillation

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


John Holloszy

Professor of Medicine

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Holloszy

Holloszy is a pioneer in understanding the impact of exercise training on the quality of life of the elderly. One of the leading figures in gerontology research, his seminal studies include investigations into whether exercise reverses some of the deterioration in functional capacity that has traditionally ...


Expertise: gerontology research, calorie restriction

Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu


John M. Lasala

Associate Professor of Medicine

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Lasala

Lasala is a pioneer in treating clogged arteries using tubes, called catheters, to prevent the need for heart surgery.


Expertise: cardiac catheterization, cardiology, interventional cardiology, atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, coronary artery disease, stents, …

Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu


James G. Miller

Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences

Professor Miller's research focuses on the physics of anisotropic, inherently inhomogeneous media. These systematic studies of the anisotropic properties of the heart have led to fundamentally new insights. In 1998 the National Institutes of Health grant supporting this research was awarded MERIT status, ...


Expertise: physics of anisotropic, inherently inhomogeneous media, anisotropic properties of the heart, diagnostic images of hearts, echocardiographic imagers

Direct contact: (314) 935-6229 / james.g.miller@wustl.edu


John Morris

Director and Principal Investigator, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Department of Neurology

John C. Morris, M.D., is the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Physical Therapy, and the Director of the Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Center for Aging, the Memory and Aging Project, and the Memory Diagnostic ...


Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, memory, aging, mild cognitive impairment

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


M. Alan Permutt

Director of the Diabetes Research and Training Center

Permutt is a world leader in the study of the genetic basis of diabetes. He identified the first gene that played a role in type 2 diabetes and subsequently has identified other genes involved in the disease, including a gene that contributes to a rare form of insulin dependent diabetes called Wolfram ...


Expertise: diabetes, intensive control of insulin depdendent diabetes, Wolfram syndrome, gene encoding, genetic aspects of type 2 diabetes

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu


David Peters

McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering

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David Peters is widely recognized as an expert in design and analysis of rotary-wing aircraft. His theory of dynamic inflow is the world standard for wake modeling in rotorcraft dynamics and simulation. His continuing research on rotorcraft modeling and analysis has led to the publication of more than ...


Expertise: rotary-wing aircraft, helicopters, rotocraft dynamics, aeronautics, astronautics

Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / dlutz@wustl.edu


Joseph G. Rogers

Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division

Rogers' clinical practice and research involve congestive heart failure patients, working to improve patient care with new pharmaceutical and surgical tools.


Expertise: heart failure, cardiac transplantation, left ventricular assist device, LVAD, biventricular pacemakers

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu


Will Ross

Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Diversity

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Ross

Ross has an interest in health policy and resolving health-care disparities. He has delivered lectures, sponsored symposiums and produced educational videos on eliminating medical disparities. Over the past three years, he has served as president of the Mound City Medical Forum, a leading minority ...


Expertise: Health care policy, disparities in health care, minority health care advocacy

Media assistance: (314) 286-0126 / pattoner@wustl.edu


Clay F. Semenkovich

Professor of Medicine and Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology

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Semenkovich

Semenkovich is known for his research on lipid metabolism, obesity and atherosclerosis.


Expertise: obesity, diabetes, lipid disorders, atheroscilerosis, lipid metaboism

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu


Samuel Stanley

Director of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research

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Stanley

Stanley directs the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE), funded by a $35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The center's mission is to support basic and translational research in critical areas ...


Expertise: biodefense, infectious diseases

Media assistance: (314) 935-5217 / joeangeles@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


Steven Teitelbaum

Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology

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Teitelbaum

As the past president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology — the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States — Teitelbaum is a strong supporter for therapeutic cloning. Somatic cell nuclear transfer, as it is also known, could hold the potential ...


Expertise: Experimental biology, therapeutic cloning, osteoporosis, bone degeneration, bone disease

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


H. James Wedner

Professor of Medicine

Wedner is known for his clinical treatment and prevention of asthma and allergies.


Expertise: allergies, Asthma, mold allergy, cat dander, animal allergy, pet allergy, pet dander

Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu


Victor Wickerhauser

Professor of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences

Victor Wickerhauser, Ph.D., professor of mathematics, is an expert in wavelet analysis, a sophisticated kind of harmonic analysis that is integral in analyzing and compressing data — video, sound or photographic, for instance — for a wide range of applications.


Expertise: wavelet analysis, harmonic analysis, compressed data, audio data, video data, fingerprinting analysis

Direct contact: (314) 935-6771 / victor@wustl.edu


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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