Dr. Will Ross’s community engagement has centered most recently on the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, a magnet health professions high school serving students in St. Louis City.
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Dr. Eva Aagaard’s involvement in community engagement has evolved over the course of her 25-year medical career.
DBBS: Honoring Our History While Building What’s Next
More than 50 years ago, P. Roy Vagelos, MD, and Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth, MD, shared a conviction: that the best science happens when disciplinary walls come down. That conviction led to the 1973 founding of the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences — a bold experiment in joint governance between the School of […]
A New Year, A New Class: Welcoming Our 2026–2027 Learners
The new academic year at WashU Medicine does not begin with a starting gun. It begins in waves — interns and fellows arriving in June and July, students in July and August, each group stepping into work that never actually stopped. There is no true quiet stretch to come back from. The wards stay full. […]
Anderson Named Director of MD Curriculum & Assessment
WashU Medicine Office of Education is pleased to welcome Max Anderson, PhD, as its new Director of Curriculum & Assessment. Max joined WashU Medicine on July 27, 2026 and brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in academic medicine, curriculum operations, instructional design, educational technology, and continuous quality improvement. Max earned a PhD in […]
WashU announces new academic-industry collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (Links to an external site)
Washington University in St. Louis and Bristol Myers Squibb have formed a multiyear collaboration to foster scientific exchange between academia and industry in the field of neuroscience. Through this agreement, WashU medical and research trainees will have opportunities to work alongside Bristol Myers Squibb teams on select drug development projects.
I never lose. I either win or learn.
I encountered this quote on a T-shirt last month and it struck me as relevant to us and our work, perhaps now more than ever. Often attributed to Nelson Mandela, “I never lose. I either win or learn,” captures something essential about how the most effective people, and the most resilient institutions, move through the […]
Dean’s Medals honor six individuals whose impact advances medicine and improves lives (Links to an external site)
Six individuals whose work has transformed patient care, advanced scientific discovery, strengthened medical education and expanded WashU Medicine’s impact around the world have been honored with the 2026 Dean’s Medals. The annual awards recognize extraordinary contributions to WashU Medicine and celebrate leaders whose achievements embody the institution’s interconnected missions of patient care, education and research.
A Decade of Investment: Education at WashU Medicine
Over the past ten years, Washington University School of Medicine has made education a strategic priority worthy of sustained investment. Not all of you were here for the ride, so I thought it would be good to tell the story, this month, the last month of Dr. Perlmutter’s ten-year tenure as Dean of the School […]
A Letter to our Graduates and Educators
EVA’S EXCERPT, MAY 2026 This is a season of extraordinary achievement. As we gather to celebrate the Class of 2026, we do so with profound gratitude, immense pride, and great optimism for the future of human health. TO OUR GRADUATES: Your journey to this milestone has been marked by dedication, sacrifice, intellectual courage, and an […]
Eva’s Excerpt, April 2026
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about transitions. Many people conflate change and transitions, but William Bridges, author and organizational change expert, described the difference as: “Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.” Transition is inherently an emotional process that begins with […]
Medical students hold their next steps in the palm of their hands on Match Day 2026 (Links to an external site)
With her dad and brother by her side, Nadia Ahmedin read the words she’d been longing to see: “Congratulations, you have matched!” Her residency will be at WashU Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital, her first choice.
Eva’s Excerpt, March 2026
My heart goes out to everyone with family, friends or loved ones in or near conflict zones. I hope for their safety and peace. In times like these, words can feel both necessary and inadequate — it’s easy to worry about saying the wrong thing while many around us may be scared, sad or grieving. […]
Eva’s Excerpt, February 2026
After the spring tornado, I wrote about the challenges faced by our students and community and the support we were able to provide in the face of that disaster. This February, the month of heart health, love, Black History, and more, I am writing about a more insidious problem: food insecurity. It is an issue […]
Eva’s Excerpt, January 2026
On Hope Let’s face it, 2025 was a rough year – for science, for medicine, for higher education, for St. Louis. It’s easy to get caught up in the negative. But in 2026, I choose hope. On New Year’s Day, I read a lovely New York Times article on “Hope in a Time of Cynicism” […]
EdUpdate December 2025 Year in Review
As another calendar year ends, I invite you to take a moment and review all that we have accomplished. I am deeply grateful for each of your contributions and proud of all that we have accomplished as a team. Thank you, and I look forward to our continued work in 2026! Hello, and happy holidays. […]
Eva’s Excerpt, November 2025
On Gratitude: Reflecting on Our Shared Commitment to Learning and Growth In the fast pace of academic medicine, it is easy to move quickly from one milestone to the next without pausing to appreciate the collective effort that sustains our shared purpose. This season invites us to do just that—to recognize the people and experiences […]
Eva’s Excerpt, October 2025
Finding Joy Amidst Challenge As we enter October, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that this year has presented us all with a myriad of challenges. Whether in our professional lives or personal journeys, many (maybe all) have faced both uncertainty and change, and this month is certainly no exception. Our resilience and […]
ETIU Updates Meet Emerging Needs
WashU Medicine’s Educational Technology and Innovation Unit (ETIU) is being updated to align with emerging needs in educational technology, instructional design, data strategy, and artificial intelligence. The updated ETIU, under the leadership of Associate Dean Carolyn Dufault and Director Emily W. Thompson, will continue to include instructional design services and at-the-elbow educator support through the […]
Eva’s Excerpt, September 2025
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth. Robert Frost from “The Road Not Taken” In this newsletter, we announce the departure of two people who have given tirelessly to […]