April 16, 2021 SHARE Physician-scientists (clockwise from top left), Jennifer Philips, MD, PhD, Patricia Dickson, MD, Brian T. Edelson, MD, PhD, Erik Musiek, MD, PhD, and Nathan O. Stitziel, MD, PhD. (Photo: School of Medicine)
Five physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in recognition of original, creative and independent investigations in the clinical or allied sciences of medicine. The new members were inducted April 8.
Patricia Dickson, MD, is the Centennial Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine. Her research focuses on genetic lysosomal storage diseases, which are rare metabolic disorders caused by the body’s inability to produce specific enzymes. The condition can affect various parts of the body such as the brain, heart, skeleton and central nervous system.
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Graduate students Esther Monroe (left) and Nishit Shetty carry out droplet experiments using a custom-built environmental rotating chamber. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing devices to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in the air.
As the COVID-19 pandemic surged last summer and contact tracers struggled to identify sources of infections, John Cirrito, PhD, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Carla Yuede, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry, began to kick around an idea. Could a biosensor they’d developed years ago for Alzheimer’s disease be converted into a detector for the virus that causes COVID-19?
How marriage is impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis among African American women
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Newswise Most African American women described successfully navigating the challenges of a breast cancer diagnosis with their partners, finds a new analysis from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
However, one-third of the sample indicated relationship distress.
“We conducted a thematic analysis to examine how a breast cancer diagnosis affected not only African American patients but also how patients perceived their breast cancer to have affected their husbands’ health and their marriage,” said Tess Thompson, research assistant professor. “Our findings show variability in couples’ responses to cancer.”
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Potential ways to improve survival for certain cancer patients who receive fragmented care
New study designed to address health care fragmentation identifies risk factors for readmission to a different hospital from where pancreatic, liver, or stomach cancer operations were initially performed.
Key Takeaways
Pancreatic, liver, bile duct, and stomach cancer operations are inherently complex and initially often take place at large cancer centers where surgical teams perform a large volume of procedures.
Readmission to a different hospital from where patients had these operations initially performed markedly increases death risk.
There are ways to address care fragmentation with newly identified risk factors for readmission; cancer hospitals should seek to determine safe sites of care for readmissions after these types of operations.