The Division of Allergy & Immunology is proud to announce that five of our faculty have been selected for the 2024 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® list.
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Jeremy Katcher, MD, named MMC / Infusion Center Director at West County multispecialty center (Links to an external site)
It is our pleasure to announce Medical Directors who will serve our 4 outpatient Medical Multispecialty Centers with associated Infusion Centers. They will work within the framework of the Ambulatory Operations Executive Council (A-OEC) of the Department of Medicine (DOM) to serve as a physician liaison for the clinical operations at the MMCs. Alongside the […]
Jennifer Monroy, MD, talks with KSDK News Channel 5 about spring allergies (Links to an external site)
You may be cheering on the warm weather, but your sinuses are not. Rising temperatures mean trees are getting the cue to release pollen. “We tell our patients to come in and see us around February, for those that do notice earlier spring season,” Monroy said. “Around Feb. 14, so Valentine’s Day is probably a […]
Allergy team members receive Drum Major Award
Ilana Olin and Wumei Blanche, members of Dr. Peggy Kendall’s lab, were both honored as Drum Major Award recipients on Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 by the WashU Medicine Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In a 1968 sermon in Atlanta titled “The Drum Major Instinct”, Dr. King stated “Yes, if you want to say I […]
Jerath & Zimmerman recognized as COVID Star Awardees (Links to an external site)
Maya Jerath, MD, PhD and Ofer Zimmerman, MD were both recognized by Department of Medicine on November 28, 2023 as COVID Star Awardees for their work and contributions during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Allergy faculty named 2023 Castle Connolly Top Doctors (Links to an external site)
Four Division of Allergy & Immunology faculty named 2023 Castle Connolly Top Doctors: Khaled Abdel-Hamid, Maya Jerath, Jeremy Katcher, and Jennifer Monroy.
H James Wedner, MD speaks with KSDK 5 about allergies and asthma (Links to an external site)
Heat, air quality and allergens whip up trifecta of issues with asthma sufferers… “This is a bad season,” Dr. H. James Wedner, an allergist at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital, said.
Maya Jerath, MD, PhD talks with KMOX Total Information AM about Alpha-gal syndrome (Links to an external site)
Maya Jerath, MD, PhD Washington University Allergist and Immunologist at Barnes Jewish Hospital joins Megan Lynch and Tom Ackerman discussing an allergy to meat from a tick bite that doctors are unsure how to treat.
Maya Jerath, MD, PhD talks with the New York Times about Alpha-gal syndrome (Links to an external site)
As many as 450,000 Americans may be living with alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy that has been linked to tick bites, with many of those people going undiagnosed, according to two new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Welcome, Omar Elsayed-Ali, MD
The Division of Allergy & Immunology proudly welcomes Omar Elsayed-Ali, MD as Assistant Professor of Medicine. Dr. Elsayed-Ali will be joining the division’s faculty on August 1, 2023. Dr. Elsayed-Ali earned his medical degree at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee and completed his fellowship in Allergy & Immunology at Washington University in […]