A new paper from the Bioethics Research Center at WashU Medicine, published in Frontiers in Neurology and led by Tristan McIntosh, PhD, an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, offers one of the first in-depth looks at how the people most affected by glioblastoma — patients, their caregivers, and the neurosurgeons who treat them — […]
Brian Gage, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, and Laneshia K. Tague, MD, MSCI, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, (primary PI) research on mycophenolic acid in lung transplant recipients has been published in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. The study used […]
A recent study led by Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, looks at how barriers to healthcare social service utilization increases for rural area-based older adults who use drugs. The study titled “Barriers to Healthcare and Social Service Utilization Among Rural Older Adults Who Use […]
Congratulations to Kenton Johnston, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine & Director of Medicare Innovation Research Lab in the Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics, for his published work in the October 2024 issue of The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). The article titled “Helping Dual-Eligible Individuals Navigate Medicare and Medicaid” looks at the problems faced by […]
Congratulations to our Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics Chief, Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH for his published commentary in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The article addressed the analysis of data in a recently published nationwide population study in Denmark titled “Role of female sex and occupational exposures when examining the rates and risks of carpal tunnel syndrome”. Dr. […]
A narrative medicine piece by Dr. David Vermette, Assistant Professor of Medicine, was recently published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
This paper was a multisite survey of internal medicine residents aimed at exploring trainee well-being from a more holistic perspective using the lens of flourishing. Flourishing incorporates aspects such as meaning, purpose, virtue, and social relationships into the model of well-being, in addition to physical and mental health, and life satisfaction. Resident flourishing was positively