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Ebony Boyce Carter, MD, a physician-scientist known for her research involving community-based interventions to promote health equity for pregnant women and their babies, has been named director of the Division of Clinical Research in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine.
As a member of the board, the infectious diseases expert will help advise the St. Louis City Department of Health on programs of essential public health, including COVID-19 pandemic response, communicable disease mitigation, and health and racial justice.
The Anesthesiology Summer Research Fellowship (ASSURE) Program will welcome its first cohort of undergraduate students in the summer of 2021. The goal is to provide opportunities and long term career support for students from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the field.
A voter kiosk provided by DBBS students has absentee and mail-in ballot request forms, stamps, and envelopes for voting.
Becker Library has been working to collect more resources on anti-racism and the Black Lives Matter movement, with books available for checkout in the Feuerstein Health & Wellness Information Center on the first floor of the library.
Opeolu M. Adeoye, MD, a noted leader and physician-scientist whose research focuses on improving outcomes for patients who have suffered strokes or other injuries to the brain, has been named head of the newly established Department of Emergency Medicine.
We are pleased to announce that Washington University has joined the NCFDD — a professional development, training, and mentoring community — as an Institutional Member.
Sean Whelan, PhD, the Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology has been recognized for work on emerging infectious diseases.
In collaboration with archivists at Bernard Becker Medical Library, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion developed a history of the School of Medicine’s history of desegregation. In addition, a timeline of this history was on display in the Eric P. Newman Center lobby during the annual Day of Dialogue and Action in February.