Ray E. Clouse, M.D., received the Distinguished Educator Award from the American Gastroenterological Association in Los Angeles recently during the its Digestive Disease Week, the largest international conference devoted to the science and practice of gastroenterology.
Clouse, professor of medicine and of psychiatry and assistant director of fellowship training for the Division of Gastroenterology, has been at the University for 30 years. After earning his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1976, he moved to St. Louis as an internal medicine intern, then resident and gastroenterology fellow prior to his appointment as an instructor.
This is not his first award for teaching excellence. Clouse received WUSTL’s first Internal Medicine Leadership Award for Clinical Care in 1999 and, in 2000, he received the first David H. Alpers Teacher of the Year Award in gastroenterology.