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The campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2024 is Inspire Inclusion. When we inspire others to understand and value women’s inclusion, we forge a better world. And when women themselves are inspired to be included, there’s a sense of belonging, relevance, and empowerment. Collectively, let’s forge a more inclusive world for women. Read more about a definition […]

Collection of Patient Reported Social Determinants of Health Among Patients with Lupus

Welcome To Rheumatology!

We would like to Congratulate our Rheumatology Fellow, Intelly Lee, MD, PhD for receiving the BJC 2023 Knowlton Incentive for Excellence Award. Excellent work!

Eirini Kefalogianni, PhD, has been awarded a grant from Arthritis National Research Foundation on her project: Roles of TNFR1/2 in Lupus Nephritis https://curearthritis.org/arthritis-research-scientists/

Please join us in welcoming our new Rheumatology fellows, Dr. Dimachkie, Dr. Goodman, Dr. Bhandari and Dr. Um! We’re so looking forward to having you in our Rheum family!!

It is with great sadness that I inform you that Richard D. Brasington Jr., MD, a highly regarded professor emeritus of medicine and former director of the rheumatology fellowship training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, drowned April 30, 2023, while fishing in the North Fork River in Ozark, Mo. He […]

The Division of Rheumatology appreciates all the hard work and dedication of all the women on our team! Thank you for all you do!

Congratulations Drs. Sam Bhandari, Dave Dimachkie, Sarah Goodman, and Joy Um! Welcome to Washington University – Rheumatology! We look forward to having you on our team!

Dr. Deborah Parks has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the American College of Rheumatology at the recent ACR Convergence 2022 meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Congratulations Dr. Parks!

September 15, 2022

John Atkinson and Adia Harvey Wingfield will receive Washington University in St. Louis’ 2022 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced.  They will be honored at the university’s annual Founders Day dinner in the fall.   Physician-scientist Atkinson, MD, the Samuel B. Grant Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, will receive the Carl […]

Could lead to therapies for people at risk of sudden rupture due to abdominal aortic aneurysm. An experimental drug therapy protects mice from sudden death due to the rupture of a major blood vessel in the abdomen, according to a study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

 Lisa Zickuhr, MD, MHPE from the Washington University School of Medicine Division of Rheumatology joined Irene Blanco, MD, MS from Albert Einstein School of Medicine Division of Rheumatology and Lisa Criscione-Schieber, MD, Med from Duke University School of Medicine Division of Rheumatology in the presentation, “How to Incorporate DEI into Your Fellows Program Curriculum,” at […]

In collaboration with Frank O’Brien, MD from the Division of Nephrology and Nathaniel Nolan, MD, MPH from the Division of Infectious Diseases, Andrew Robinson, MSW LMSW and Lisa Zickuhr, MD, MHPE from the Division of Rheumatology presented a workshop titled, “Interprofessional, Multidisciplinary Case Conference:  A Novel Approach to Integrating Health Equity into Graduate Medical Education,” […]

Lisa Zickuhr, MD, MHPE from the Washington University School of Medicine Division of Rheumatology and Sarah Goglin, MD from the University of California – San Francisco Division of Rheumatology delivered a Teaching Pearl Presentation at the American College of Rheumatology’s Education Exchange 2022 in Orlando, FL.  Drs. Zickuhr and Goglin partnered with eight educators from […]

We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Lenschow was appointed the John S Daniels Professor in Immunology. The professorship was made possible by a gift from Noémi and Michael Neidorff and established in honor of Dr. John Daniels, a Washington University associate professor of clinical medicine who specializes in endocrinology and metabolism and in […]

They will conduct a workshop about integrating Health Equity into fellowship training curricula, reviewing best practices and sharing their experiences from their own interprofessional and multidisciplinary case conference. Check them out if you are attending AIMW22! 

COVID-19 vaccination elicited antibody responses in nearly nine out of 10 people with weakened immune systems, although their responses were only about one-third as strong as those mounted by healthy people, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.