Opeolu Adeoye, MD, MS
BJC HealthCare Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Emergency Physician-in-Chief, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Dr. Adeoye’s area of research focus is in acute neurological emergencies, including stroke clinical trials, biomarkers of acute stroke and thrombosis and inflammation in acute stroke.
Rachel Ancona, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Ancona is a PhD researcher whose primary focus is on the intersection of public health and emergency medicine. She is particularly interested in how social determinants of health affect patient outcomes, especially in the context of opioid use disorder. Technically, her work involves leveraging existing data for novel data extraction and application using advanced approaches such as natural language processing and machine learning algorithms.
Kevin Baumgartner, MD
Director, Toxicology Quality Improvement; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Kevin Baumgartner is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Division of Medical Toxicology. He is board-certified Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Addiction Medicine. He is a clinical researcher with a primary focus on the safe and effective use of sedatives and psychoactive medications in the acute care setting, with a current focus on post-intubation sedation in the emergency department and on the use of dexmedetomidine. Other areas of research interest include pharmacologic management of opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder, snake envenomation, and antimuscarinic poisoning.
Sarah Berg, MD
Assistant Program Director, Medical Toxicology Fellowship; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Berg’s research interests include screening, referral, and pharmacologic management of substance use disorder, medical education, and social determinants of health in emergency medical care.
Robert Campbell, PhD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Campbell is a PhD translational researcher with a strong interest in the role of platelets and neutrophils in ischemic stroke. His laboratory uses human clinical patient samples to identify pathways activated in platelets and white blood cells and then dissects these pathways in murine stroke models as well as in vitro systems with the hope of identifying novel therapeutic targets for ischemic stroke.
Alexander Croft, MD
Assistant Medical Director, Howard and Joyce Wood Simulation Center; Co-Director, Simulation; Director, In-Situ Simulation Acute Care (ISSAC) Program; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Croft is a Healthcare Simulationist. His research interests include in-situ simulation, human factors in healthcare, and time critical diagnoses. His current research pertains to identifying and resolving latent safety threats, improving clinical care through simulation based activities, and implementation of new operational changes.
Frederik Denorme, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Denorme’s lab uses a bench to bedside approach to study the role of thrombosis and inflammation in ischemic stroke. By combining murine stroke models with clinical patient samples, we aim to identify novel therapeutic targets for ischemic stroke patients.
Vidya Eswaran, MD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Vidya Eswaran is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. She is a health services researcher with a primary focus on improvement of health outcomes for individuals who have been involved with the criminal legal system. Other areas of research include the care of patients with psychiatric and substance-related needs and the advancement of social emergency medicine.
Richard Griffey, MD, MPH
Vice Chair for Patient Safety & Quality; GME Director, Patient Safety & Quality Improvement; Professor, Emergency Medicine
Laura Heitsch, MD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine; Neurology
Stacey House, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Research; Director, Emergency Care Research Core; Director, Emergency Care Research Fellowship; Director, EMERGE Program; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. House conducts research across multiple areas within emergency care. Her current major work studies respiratory viral infections including epidemiology, acute diagnostics, immune response, and vaccine effectiveness. She is also conducting clinical trials focused on acute therapeutics to reduce neuropsychiatic sequelae of trauma.
Stephen Liang, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine; Emergency Medicine
Dr. Liang’s research interests include trauma-related infections, orthopedic infections, and the management of infectious diseases and infection prevention in emergency care settings. Other interests include a range of topics within disaster medicine.
David Liss, MD
Division Chief for Medical Toxicology; Program Director, Medical Toxicology Fellowship; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Liss’ research interests include screening for substance use disorders with brief intervention, medication prescription, and referral to care in the emergency department and other acute care settings.
Philip Mudd, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
The Mudd lab studies human CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses to viruses. We evaluate these responses in unique tissue samples we obtain from human subjects following natural infection or vaccination. We study these responses to improve our understanding of the human T cell immune response and to design better vaccines.
Kristen Mueller, MD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Kristen Mueller, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Mueller is engaged in research on firearm violence and injury prevention. In this work, she serves as the physician liaison to the St. Louis region-wide hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP), Life Outside Violence (LOV). Dr. Mueller’s effort is supported by a NICHD K23 career development award.
Peter Panagos, MD
Executive Vice Chair for Emergency Medicine; Division Chief for Neurological Emergencies; Director, Neurovascular Emergencies; Co-Director, Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital Stroke Network; Professor, Emergency Medicine; Neurology
Dr. Panagos is currently Executive Vice Chair and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurology at Washington University in St Louis. He is the Director of the Division of Neurovascular Emergencies and Co-Director of the Washington University Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center. He is current PI for the NIH funded StrokeNet (RCC 28) at WashU and serves as the PI for several stroke clinical trials and actively involved in the ongoing QI process for stroke and cerebrovascular disease at BJH/WashU.
Daniel Theodoro, MD, MSCI
Division Chief for Ultrasound; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
