Author: Elizabethe Holland Durando

The School of Medicine’s 10th Annual Art Show — featuring artworks of students, faculty and staff — will be held in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center atrium, 520 S. Euclid Ave., from Jan. 21 through Feb. 21.

Four Washington University in St. Louis researchers are being honored as outstanding scientists by the Academy of Science of St. Louis.

The School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital are part of a new multi-institutional project that aims to create a national pediatric “learning health system” that will feature an extensive clinical data research network. Feliciano “Pele” Yu Jr., MD, is the project’s principal investigator on the Washington University Medical Campus.

Washington University Medical Center faculty, staff and students will perform their third annual winter concert at 4 p.m. Jan. 18 in the lobby of the Center for Advanced Medicine, 4921 Parkview Place. A reception will follow the concert. The event is free and open to the public.

Students from the School of Medicine and Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences recently shared their musical talents at the fall coffeehouse at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. Coffeehouses are hosted by the School of Medicine Arts Commission. Shown are Charise Garber (on piano) and her sister, Kristen Garber.

Thalachallour Mohanakumar, PhD, the Jacqueline G. and William E. Maritz Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine, has received the Paul I. Terasaki Clinical Science Award. He was given the award Nov. 20 at the 39th annual meeting of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics in Chicago.

The School of Medicine’s 10th Annual Art Show is accepting submissions from students, faculty and staff. The art show will be held in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center atrium from Jan. 21 through Feb. 21. 

Greg Sibbel, a third-year graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, from Ewing’s sarcoma. He had turned 26 the day before.

The World Health Organization has released new guidelines for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition, based in large part on research at the School of Medicine. Shown is the school’s Mark Manary, MD, whose research helped spur the changes.

John Olson Jr., MD, PhD, a 1998 graduate of the Washington University General Surgery Residency Program, will give a lecture in honor of the late Keith D. Amos, MD, at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, in Connor Auditorium at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center on the Medical Campus. Olson also will receive an alumni award named for Amos.