Outstanding Achievement in Quality Improvement Outstanding Achievement in Leadership/Professionalism Outstanding Paper of the Year Outstanding Contributions to Education Excellence in Faculty Mentoring P&I Shining Star (Staff Award)
Save the Date! October 20, 2022
4:00 – 5:00 pm Awards Ceremony 5:00 – 6:00 pm Reception EPNEC location to be announced
Tim Bono, PhD WUSTL Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
June 7, 2022, 11:00-12:00 pm in Holden Auditorium
The last two years have posed challenges and adversity unlike anything we have ever seen. As trying as the pandemic has been, there are opportunities to extract meaning in ways that allow us to emerge even stronger. This presentation will draw on research from the behavioral sciences that offers implications for coping through hardship in ways that promote psychological health and well-being.
Diversity Book Discussion
The Warmth of Other Suns, The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
June 16, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Zoom
Diversity Advisor Training Save the Date September 14, 2022, 10:30am - 12:00 pm via Zoom
As faculty, at some point we are called upon to assist with recruitment of staff, trainees and/or faculty. Creating a recruitment, screening, and hiring process that values diversity, equity and inclusion is an intentional effort that requires support. The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will provide this diversity advisor training.
Ellis Benson Award Recipient
Dr. Melanie Yarbrough, Assistant Professor in the division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, is the recipient of the Ellis Benson Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (ACLPS). This award is the premier award of ACLPS to a young faculty member in recognition of meritorious accomplishment in the field of laboratory medicine. The Award honors the pioneering work of Ellis Benson in promoting research, service and teaching in laboratory medicine. To learn more about the award visit https://www.aclps.org/ellis-benson-award
Dr. Yarbrough’s clinical research interests intersect within the boundaries of clinical chemistry, micro-biology, and molecular diagnostics. She has focused on evaluating methods for detection, isolation, and identification of pathogens of the bloodstream and urinary tract. She is interested in gaining a better understanding of the influence of microbiota of the genitourinary system on the interplay between disease and health in the urinary tract.
Dr. Yarbrough will present the Benson Award Lecture on Saturday, June 25, 10:20 – 11:10 am at the ACLPS annual meeting.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Yarbrough for this outstanding accomplishment!
New Director of Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine Fellowship
On July 1, 2022, Dr. Suzanne Thibodeaux will assume the role of Director for the Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship (BB/TM) Program. She will succeed Dr. Brenda Grossman, who has served as Program Director since 2011 and can be credited for leading a very successful training program. The BB/TM Fellowship was ACGME accredited in 1979 and since then has graduated numerous fellows who have gone on to be major contributors to the field of transfusion medicine, including in apheresis, blood banking and cellular therapies.
Dr. Thibodeaux is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology in the Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of the Cellular Therapy Laboratory and Assistant Medical Director of Transfusion Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She also serves as the Associate Program Director for Clinical Pathology Residency and the Laboratory Medicine Thread Leader for the Washington University School of Medicine undergraduate Gateway Curriculum.
Dr. Thibodeaux received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She then completed residency in clinical pathology followed by a fellowship in blood banking and transfusion medicine, both at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, she joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She is actively involved in multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches to patient care, education, and clinical and translational research as it relates to cellular therapy and transfusion medicine.
We offer sincere thanks to Dr. Grossman for her contributions to the success of training experts in the field of transfusion medicine. We welcome Dr. Thibodeaux to her new role, and look forward to the continuing success of the BB/TM Fellowship Program.
MEDA is open to all within the Washington University School of Medicine community with the shared goal of promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for Underrepresented Minorities in Medicine. MEDA is funded by the John T. Milliken Department of Medicine – Office of Inclusion and Diversity.
