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Professors of Medicine Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH and Thomas Maddox, MD, MSc published a Viewpoint in JAMA Cardiology expressing that to meet the opportunity of digital health approaches for cardiovascular care, medical reimbursement systems must be reformed. The article was written in collaboration with colleagues from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Angela L. Brown, MD, a professor of medicine in the Cardiovascular Division at WashU Medicine, was one of 55 faculty honored last month with Dean’s Impact Awards for community partnerships. Since 2013, Brown has encouraged better communication between WashU Medicine researchers and people in the community as the co-director of the Center for Community Health Partnership & Research, a part of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and the Institute for Public Health.

Dr. Mengcheng Shen joined the Department of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division as an Assistant Professor in May 2025. He earned his PhD from the University of Alberta, where his research focused on extracellular matrix remodeling in aortic aneurysm and heart failure.

When a young patient under the care of WashU Medicine physicians Amit Pawale, MD, and Joel Schilling, MD, PhD, was admitted to the intensive care unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital with heart failure, time was of the essence.

Justin Vader, MD, a WashU Medicine cardiologist and heart failure specialist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, often sees patients with heart failure who are so sick by the time they enter care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, that they require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Fortunately, the heart failure team is often able to stabilize such patients and transition them to a platform of support with a temporary heart pump, allowing patients to rehabilitate in the intensive care unit with the goal of either recovering cardiac function, undergoing a heart transplant or another procedure that may be appropriate for the patient’s needs.

With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) and transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) procedures for tricuspid regurgitation treatment, heart specialists at the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center in St. Louis, Mo., are pioneering advances that enhance the quality of life for patients who have historically suffered debilitating symptoms with limited therapeutic options.

Richard Bach, MD, Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, and Jasvindar Singh, MD,  Section Head of Interventional and Structural Cardiology, have both received the  2025 Neville Grant Award for Clinical Excellence.