After more than a year in the making, This fall our department successfully launched a video (iPad) interpreter through LAMP services. After recognizing a need for improved processes, both from a patient and business facing aspect.

Dr. Makeba Williams talks with KMOV's Paige Hulsey about the relationship between menopause and racial disparities. Watch below.

Congratulations to Nandini Raghuraman, MD, MS, who was selected as a member of the Academy of Educators!

We celebrated Dr. David Mutch on his announcement as the 2022 President's Achievement Honoree The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital hosted a celebration honoring our partnership and Dr. Mutch!

We celebrated our team and supporters, "Shake Your Teal Feathers" on October 9th. Thank you to everyone who came out! We had beautiful weather, a positive team, and the best encouragement we could ask for! Research + clinical care + community + peer support = Amazing! This is how we make a difference.

Gyn Onc faculty and Nurse Coordinators enjoyed an evening of fundraising for a program near and dear to their hearts. Thank you to everyone who came out!

We are so excited to share our faculty attending March of Dimes 2022 in St. Louis at the Four Seasons!

National Latin Physician Day took place on October 1st, which falls during National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15). During the month, we honor the histories, cultures and contributions of citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

It is nurse practitioner week! We are thankful for all of our women's health nurse practitioners and all they do for their patients. Kelly Amerson Kelly Ball Katie Drennan Anna Geiger Julie Hake Stacy Selbert Nancy Tecu Danielle Turnbull Yvette Van Hook

Anthony Odibo, MD, an internationally recognized expert in maternal-fetal medicine, has been named the Virginia S. Lang Endowed Chair in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

More pictures here

While healthcare is a basic human right, it is rife with inequities that reach far beyond the doctor's office. For women - and particularly women of color - the equity gap continues to show up nationally in our healthcare systems; and intersect locally in our communities, education systems, and even our workplaces.

Our department was proud to partner with The First Ladies of St. Louis who held a day health and wellness Saturday, November 5th at the Greater Grace Church.

Life doesn't move in a straight line and neither does a career in clinical and translational research. Such is the truth for ICTS investigator Lindsay Kuroki, MD, MSCI, associate professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology.

Research reveals happening! Clinical researchers under the direction of PI Yong Wang, PhD, have poster/oral presentations at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual meeting 10/13-15; OBGYN engineering collaborator Dr. Christine O'Brien also presenting!

Toasting to successful submission of #U54 grant for The SMART (Severe MAternal morbidity ReducTion) Center, a phenomenal team of community collaborators, scientists, & clinicians (all toasting on zoom!)

Our REI division had a blast as ASRM this year!

November 16, 2022 was our Annual PGY-2 Research Retreat. We talked study design, mentorship, data analysis, IRB, instit and dept resources, scientific presentations, & had a fun interactive career panel discussion

Congratulations to the Fall 2022 recipients of the Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey (L.A.B.) Award!

Bree Goodman, MD

Halley Staples, MD

Cassandra Trammel, MD, MBA

Jayme Trevino, MD, MPH

Dr. Toni Frolova’s research, titled “Role of sphingosine-1-phosphate (“S1P”) in preterm birth” has earned a 2022 Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from March of Dimes. The award is for $150,000 over two years.

Halley Staples submitted a personal perspectives article to Obstetrics & Gynecology

A big thanks to the "Feurstein Wellness grant" for sponsoring our October event! Attendance was opened to the first 21 residents (of all different specialties!) to sign up for a private 1-hour barre class followed by 1-hour of social time with snacks provided. "It was a wonderful time!"

We wanted to send a huge thank you to everyone who attended our resident-fellow mixer (significant others, small humans, and furry friends included!)! It was really great to spend some time getting to know all the amazing people we have in our trainee cohort outside the hospital.

Congratulations Dr. Sonn for receiving the 2022 APGO Humanism in Teaching Award! Read more about the award here.

WashU meet up at AAGL in Denver! WashU attendings Dr. Bardawil and Dr. de Souza, past residents Jenny Travieso, Jessica Putman, Angelina Carey-Love, Hannah French, and Lulu Yu, and current residents Tamara Cameo, Alison Kosmacki, and Caroline Min! So many generations of WashU MIGS! 📸

A snapshot from DEIA book club where attendees discussed "Take My Hand" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and related articles. Residents, fellows, staff, attendings all joined! Thank you to the @vinecafe for catering!

WashU ObGyn CFP meet up at the Baltimore conference! Do you see any familiar faces? 🤔