Stitziel named scholar-innovator (Links to an external site)
Cardiologist receives Harrington Discovery Institute award to support the development of breakthrough treatments for heart disease
Peterson discusses cardiac rehab on podcast
Linda Peterson, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology and Medical Director of WashU’s cardiac rehab program, recently appeared on medical podcast “White Coats, Real Talk” to discuss the importance of cardiac rehab, and her experience in this field.
EP Leadership Announcement
Cardiac Electrophysiology faculty members Daniel Cooper, MD and Timothy Smith, DPhil, MD will be in new roles in the Division beginning July 1. Dr. Cooper will be taking over as EP Lab Director, with Dr. Smith stepping into the role of EP Fellowship Director.
Study proposes novel drug to target arterial thrombosis
Researchers at the WashU Medicine Sah Lab in the Center for Cardiovascular Research and their collaborators have published findings that provide a proof of concept for a novel drug class to treat myocardial infarction and stroke. Rajan Sah, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine in the cardiovascular division, worked with multiple teams that collaborated to […]
Katchi Named Co-Director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Assistant Professor of Medicine Farhan Katchi, MD has been appointed Cardiology Co-Director of the Advanced Cardiac Imaging (CT/MR) Program, a joint effort between Cardiology and Radiology, reinvigorating the program that was started in 2006 by Benico Barzilai, MD and Pamela Woodard, MD. He will join Scott Bugenhagen, MD, PhD who will assume the Co-Director role on the Radiology side. As before, this jointly […]
Prabhu Lab publishes research on spleen-heart immune link crucial to heart attack recovery
Researchers at WashU Medicine’s Center for Cardiovascular Research have discovered that specialized immune cells from the spleen play a critical role in healing the heart after a heart attack. The study, led by Sumanth Prabhu, MD, Division Chief and director of the Prabhu Lab, identifies a unique population of macrophages—immune cells that clean up cellular […]
Braverman publishes study on arterial aneurysms Loeys-Dietz syndrome
Alan Braverman, MD, Section Head of General Cardiology and Director of the WashU Medicine Marfan Syndrome and Aortopathy Center, and his collaborators have published new findings in JACC on the characteristics of extra-aortic arterial aneurysms in Loeys-Dietz syndrome.