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At the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session in Chicago last month, two of our WashU Cardiovascular Fellows took their FIT Jeopardy team all the way to the finals and won, beating out the Arizona chapter! Second-year fellow Shreyas Venkataraman, MD and Advanced Heart Failure Fellow Raja Zaghlol, MD were both on the Missouri FIT (Fellows In Training) team that took first place at the yearly competition.

Associate Professor of Medicine Nishath Quader, MD was recently announced as the Section Editor of Cardiovascular Images at Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, an American Heart Association Journal. 

Associate Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division Dr. Joel Schilling along with his band South of Sanity played a show at a recent St. Louis Blues hockey game pep rally at the Enterprise Center. Joining the band on drums was heart transplant recipient Rodney Cochran.

Nathan and Lynda Olsen loved to explore the southwestern Missouri countryside near their home in Carthage, so when they discovered a cozy coffeeshop situated on a picturesque bluff, they pulled in to savor the view and the java. But their relaxing afternoon quickly came to a jolting halt.

Since 2016, Dr. Linda Peterson has spearheaded Project Heartstrong- a school outreach program to bring heart health education to the Normandy School District in North St. Louis County. Every February since, she and a growing team of division faculty and staff have visited classrooms with kid-approved interactive lessons.

WashU Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital awards 18 investigators as part of the 18th annual Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program (CTRFP). Among the awardees are Cardiovascular Division faculty Joshua Mitchell, MD, MSCI and Joel Schilling, MD, PhD.