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Learning Beyond the Clinic: Medical Students Support Community Health
Our education team met with Doorways, a non-profit community partner that hosted students for a key component of their clerkship. HEJ is a part of the Gateway Curriculum and is designed to help students explore how social and structural challenges impact health outcomes. Doorways was an ideal site for this experience, as it’s the only […]
Dr. Mutch and Dr. Khabele featured in Gynecologic Cancer Research
WashU Medicine gynecologic oncologists Dr. David Mutch and Dr. Dineo Khabele are at the forefront of research with the Route 66 Endometrial Cancer SPORE. They bring together interactive research teams from three institutions to create a dynamic translational research program aimed at developing and testing new strategies to prevent and treat endometrial cancer. – Illumination is […]
2025 Resident Graduation
We proudly celebrated our 2025 graduating class of OBGYN residents! We’re thrilled to welcome back several familiar faces as our newest fellows, send warm farewells to those continuing their training elsewhere, and begin an exciting journey with our incoming interns. Every one of these exceptional physicians—trained right here at WashU Medicine—successfully matched into fellowship programs, […]
WashU Medicine OBGYN team inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Class of 2025
Congratulations to gynecologic oncologist Dr. Premal Thaker; gynecologic oncology fellows Dr. Whitney Grither and Dr. Mark Valentine; maternal–fetal medicine fellow Dr. Cassandra Trammel; and reproductive medicine and infertility fellow Dr. Mitra Sharifi on their induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Class of 2025. Premal Thaker, MD, MS Whitney Grither, MD, PhD Mark Valentine, […]
Thaker Appointed Chief, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
The Department is pleased to announce that Premal Thaker, MD, MS, the David & Lynn Mutch Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Gynecologic Oncology Clinical Trials, has been appointed as Chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, effective June 1, 2025. Dr. Thaker served for almost 18 months as Interim Chief and […]