Residents
Abbas Ali Khan, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: a.abbas@wustl.edu
Hometown: Hoffman Estates, IL
Medical School: VCU School of Medicine
Undergrad: Loyola University - Chicago
Hobbies: Soccer, basketball, new pickleball convert (any sports really), boxing, calisthenics, hiking
Superpower: I have another stomach for dessert
Kryptonite: Spiders (I blame growing up in Australia)
Manoj Arra, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: arram@wustl.edu
Hometown: Fishkill, NY/ Hyderabad, India
Medical School: WashU
Undergrad: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hobbies: Collecting sneakers, yard games, playing and watching sports especially soccer, basketball and Formula 1, watching bad reality TV.
Superpower: Ability to eat pizza every single day for every meal.
Kryptonite: Ghosts
Mark Baldeshwiler, MD
- Email: mark.baldeshwiler@wustl.edu
Hometown: Chippewa Falls, WI
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Undergrad: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hobbies: Homebrewing, baseball, football, science, beer/wine tasting, hiking
Super Power: Caffeine consumption and the ability to fall asleep
Kryptonite: My daughter waking up from a nap...the faces she makes are incredible! And she's just cute
Mary Bass, MD
Resident (she/her)
- Email: bassm@wustl.edu
Hometown: Bismarck, IL
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria
Undergrad: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hobbies: Playing volleyball, baking/eating desserts, napping, working out, hanging out with my friends, trying new restaurants, watching TV
Superpower: Knowing the movie Twilight word for word
Kryptonite: My bed and any baked good
Braden Best, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: bbest@wustl.edu
Hometown: KCMO
Medical School: University of Kansas
Undergrad: University of Central Missouri
Hobbies: Hanging out with my wife and daughters, powerlifting, many other forms of exercise, reading (and listening) to books, video games, yard work.
Superpower: My children are insensibly adorable.
Kryptonite: Good dad-jokes. (What is it called when someone who isn’t a father makes a dad-joke? A faux-pa).
Shiraz Cassim, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: cassim@wustl.edu
Hometown: Berkeley, CA
Medical School: Albany Medical College, Albany NY
Undergrad: Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Hobbies: Cooking, sci-fi, keeping things sharp, archery
Superpower: Spicy food tolerance
Kryptonite: Being bombarded by social media
Andrew Cobourn, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: cobourn@wustl.edu
Hometown: Minden, NV
Medical School: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Undergrad: California State University, Chico
Hobbies: Mountain biking, kitesurfing, resort and backcountry skiing, SCUBA diving, spending time with my wife and our dog, amateur meteorology, volunteer Search and Rescue, working outside in my yard, trying new restaurants, coaching youth mountain bike racing (Go Otters!), and learning to perfect making different cocktails with my wife.
Superpower: SUPER STOKE!!! Also, pretty decent at driving in the snow, bicycle commuting significantly more days per year than driving, and growing ridiculous mustaches for important pictures.
Kryptonite: Walking past a piece of litter without picking it up. Passing a good taco truck without stopping. And…SQUIRREL!
Elsa Cornett, MD
Resident (she/her)
- Email: celsa@wustl.edu
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Undergrad: University of Missouri - Columbia
Hobbies: Cycling, cooking - especially pasta, my doggo, reading
Superpower: Chronically arriving early
Kryptonite: Bomb Pops/novelty ice creams and rewatching the same TV shows over and over again
Hanson Cowan, MD
Resident (he/him)
- Email: cowanh@wustl.edu
Hometown: Brentwood, TN
Medical School: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Undergrad: University of South Carolina
Hobbies: Backpacking, cooking, baking, neglecting sourdough starters, perusing NYT cooking recipes, gardening, triathlons, weightlifting, and traveling
Superpower: Dog whisperer
Kryptonite: Freshly brewed coffee and home baked desserts
Taylor Crowell, MD
Resident (she/her)
- Email: crowellt@wustl.edu
Hometown: Effingham, IL
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria
Undergrad: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hobbies: Baking (cookies preferably), pickleball, running, reading, watching Illinois basketball or the Pittsburgh Steelers
Superpower: Quoting Vines and old movies
Kryptonite: Anything chocolate