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WashU Cardiovascular Division faculty members Mark D. Huffman, MD, MPH, Victor G. Dávila-Román, MD, and Anubha Agarwal, MD, have published an editorial in JAMA accompanying a new Global Burden of Disease investigation examining worldwide trends in elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and its contribution to cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Douglas Hall joins the Department of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division as an Assistant Professor as of August 2026. Dr. Hall completed his undergraduate training in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University before earning his medical degree and completing his medical training at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Kenji Lim joins the Department of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division as an Instructor as of August 2026. Dr. Lim is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, where his research focuses on understanding the roles of the immune system in cardiac homeostasis and disease.

The Department of Medicine is proud to announce that over 170 of our faculty, including 38 cardiovascular faculty have been selected for the 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® list.

the Inspiration of Excellence Award to Alan Braverman, MD, and Rebecca Braverman. Dr. Braverman, Director of the Marfan Syndrome and Aortopathy Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has a personal connection to Marfan syndrome: both his father and brother died from complications of the condition. Together, Alan and Rebecca have been longtime champions of the Foundation’s mission, co-founding the annual St. Louis HeartWorks gala in 2008 and often taking their two daughters to Marfan events around the country. “It’s not a job,” said Dr. Braverman. “It’s the way our lives are.”

“We’ve got an increasing population in age, but also in prevalence of cardiometabolic disease and non-direct cardiac conditions, so more people have orthopedic issues, or cerebral vascular issues, or kidney issues, and they all make it more complex for cardiac disease and elevate the risk,” said Thomas M. Maddox, MD, MSc, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. “On the supply side, we’ve got an aging cardiology workforce, there’s uneven geographic distribution, and people are retiring.”