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Assistant Professor of Medicine Jesus Jimenez, MD, PhD has been announced as a recipient of the 2024 Harold Amos Faculty Development Award. Dr. Jimenez also recently received K08 funding for his project “CD40 Immunotherapy Effect on the Cardiac Immune Landscape and Response to Myocardial Disease”.

Dr. Amanda Verma, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardio-Obstetrics in the Cardiovascular Division, has been appointed as the Chair of the Women in Heart Failure Committee for the Heart Failure Society of America.

The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society chapter at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has announced 25 inductees for its Class of 2024. The AOA is a national organization with a mission to recognize and support leadership, high educational achievement and effective teaching as well as service to others. The Washington University chapter has more than 450 physicians.

Drs. Mustafa Husaini, Richard Bach, and Sharon Cresci of the Cardiovascular Division published a case report in the August 2024 edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Cardiology, titled “Exercise Testing to Unmask Latent LVOT Obstruction in a Highly Symptomatic Patient With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”.

Thomas M. Maddox MD, SM, Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at Washington University School of Medicine and head of the BJC/WUSM Healthcare Innovation Lab, has been appointed to the inaugural FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee.

Second-Year Cardiovascular Fellow Dr. Sarah LoCoco is the first author on a new paper in the journal Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, entitled “Direct Comparison of Methods to Differentiate Wide Complex Tachycardias: Novel Automated Algorithms Versus Manual ECG Interpretation Approaches”.

Assistant Professor of Medicine Jesus Jimenez, MD, PhD was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award at this year’s American Heart Association Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Conference in Chicago, IL.