Department News

After 26 years of transformative service to WashU Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Chandra Aubin retired in 2025, leaving behind an extraordinary legacy of clinical mastery, passionate advocacy, and pioneering educational development. Returning home to St. Louis to join the WashU community in 1997, Dr. Aubin switched specialties to emergency medicine (EM) following an initial […]

As the autumn season gets underway, the Department of Emergency Medicine is gearing up for a full calendar of beloved traditions, departmental gatherings, and national alumni reunions. Many of our faculty members and alumni joined us in Chicago at the ACEP Scientific Assembly. Closer to home, and after a hiatus in the post-COVID times, last […]

Over the past year, the Department of Emergency Medicine marked a major milestone in its clinical mission by expanding its reach across the St. Louis community. While Barnes-Jewish Hospital has long served as our foundational home base—later joined by Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital over a decade ago and Missouri Baptist Hospital several years back—July 2025 […]

In June, we celebrated the end of residency and fellowship training for several new WashU EM graduates. We had lovely celebration with the graduates and their families, with some staying local and some preparing for big moves across the country. Please join us in congratulating our graduates! RESIDENCY: · Manoj Arra – University of Colorado, […]

The “Advancing Health Across and Beyond the Criminal Legal Continuum” convening is scheduled for November 10, 2026, at Washington University’s Delmar DivINe campus in St. Louis, Missouri. Hosted by the Department of Emergency Medicine, this event gathers a diverse group of participants, including academic researchers, service providers, correctional and governmental stakeholders, community advocates, and individuals […]

Dr. Radhika Sundararajan joins WashU Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine as Associate Professor as of October 2026 Dr. Sundararajan joins us from Weill Cornell Medical College where she focused on using Implementation Science approaches to design and evaluate healthcare interventions in low resource settings to improve public health outcomes. Her research uses community-engaged, qualitative and […]

Our Brian Froelke, MD, was part of teamwork that helped save a life at a local high school soccer game this past October. Thanks to emergency medicine expertise and help from a monitor and defibrillator, Dr. Froelke assisted in getting the young man stable enough to be transported to the hospital for further assessment.

Meet this year’s Emergency Medicine fellows! They have been busy this month doing great things for our department. We are proud to have all of them as part of our team.

Big news!! Effective July 1, WashU Medicine will extend its Emergency Medicine physician and advance practice providers at additional BJC HealthCare hospitals.

Match Day took place on March 21, 2025. Our department is excited to announce the newest members of our WashU Emergency Medicine family.

Our department chair, Opeolu Adeoye, MD, MS, recently led a large multi-center national NIH funded clinical trial entitled Multi-arm Optimization of Stroke Thrombolysis (MOST).

Our Vice Chair of Education, Jason Wagner, MD, has recently been selected as a member of The Academy of Educators at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.