Residents
Abbas Ali Khan, MD
Resident
- 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
- 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
Addie Burtle, MD
Resident
- Email: a.burtle@wustl.edu
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Medical School: Washington State Univ
Undergrad: Univ of Washington
Hobbies: filmmaking, slacklining, bouldering, drinking from the podcast firehose, social justice & advocacy, motorcycling, woodworking
Superpower: doing things at 100% intensity
Kryptonite: doing things in moderation (particularly with regard to ice cream)
Fun Fact: I built my own treadmill desk during med school as a way of keeping active while studying constantly. My pedometer normally only shows 5 digits and I wondered what would happen if I cracked into 6 figures. During one particularly productive study session in my 2nd year, I managed to break 100,000 steps in a day.
Shiraz Cassim, MD
Resident
- 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
Emily Cloessner, MD
Chief Resident, 2024-2025
- Email: cloessner@wustl.edu
Hometown: Aiken, SC
Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
Undergrad: College of Charleston
Hobbies: Anything outside, slowly working towards becoming a Cicerone, board games.
Superpower: Can nap anywhere, anytime.
Kryptonite: Early morning meetings, snow.
Elsa Cornett, MD
Resident
- 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
Taylor Crowell, MD
Resident
- 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
Thailandria Daniels, MD
Resident
- Email: danielst@wustl.edu