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Chair’s Office
Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, Chair
William K. Bixby Professor of Surgery; Director, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
Gregorio A. Sicard, MD
Executive Vice Chair
Gerald L. Andriole Jr., MD
Vice Chair for Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness
Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Operations
William E. Gillanders, MD
Vice Chair for Research
Mary E. Klingensmith, MD
Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery; Vice Chair for Education
Bruce Lee Hall, MD, PhD, MBA
Chief Quality Officer, BJC HealthCare
Jeffrey M. Arbeit, MD
Professor of Surgery
Timothy P. Fleming, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Peter S. Goedegeburre, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD, Chief
Evarts Ambrose Graham Professor of Surgery
Section of Cardiac Surgery
Marc R. Moon, MD, Chief
John M. Shoenberg Chair in Cardiovascular Disease
Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Evarts Ambrose Graham Professor of Surgery
Jennifer S. Lawton, MD
Nabil A. Munfakh, MD
Michael K. Pasque, MD
Richard B. Schuessler, PhD
Professors of Surgery
William A. Gay Jr., MD
Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Michael Crittenden, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery; Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Louis VA Medical Center-John Cochran Division
Brian P. Cupps, PhD
Hersh S. Maniar, MD
Associate Professors of Surgery
Keki R. Balsara, MD
Akinobu Itoh, MD, PhD
Muhammad F. Masood, MD
Spencer J. Melby, MD
Stefano Schena, MD, PhD
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Puja Kachroo, MD*
Julia Kar, PhD
Instructors in Surgery
Section of General Thoracic Surgery
Bryan F. Meyers, MD, MPH, Chief
Patrick and Joy Williamson Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery
G. Alexander Patterson, MD
Joseph C. Bancroft Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Andrew E. Gelman, PhD
Benjamin D. Kozower, MD, MPH*
Professors of Surgery
Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery; Director of Lung Transplantation
Traves D. Crabtree, MD
Alexander S. Krupnick, MD
Varun Puri, MD, MSCI
Associate Professors of Surgery
Wenjun Li, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Xingan Wang, MD, PhD
Instructor in Surgery
Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD, Chief
Emerson Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Peter B. Manning, MD
Professor of Surgery
Umar S. Boston, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Orlando Petrucci, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Anoop Brar, PhD
Instructor in Surgery
Critical Care Service in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
Michael S. Avidan, MBBCh, FCA, Chief
Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Charl J. de Wet, MBChB
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Diego Casali, MD*
Heidi K. Coco, DO
Daniel A. Emmert, MD, PhD
Thomas J. Graetz, MD
Mohammad Helwani, MD, MSPH
Clare H. Ridley, MD
Adnan Sadiq, MD
Assistant Professors of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Division of General Surgery
William C. Chapman, MD, Chief
Eugene M. Bricker Professor of Surgery
Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery
Grant V. Bochicchio, MD, MPH, Chief
Harry Edison Professor of Surgery
Bradley D. Freeman, MD
John E. Mazuski, MD, PhD
Douglas J.E. Schuerer, MD
Professors of Surgery
Obeid N. Ilahi, MD
John P. Kirby, MD
Tiffany M. Osborn, MD
Associate Professors of Surgery
Sara A. Buckman, MD, PharmD
Julianne Donnelly, MD
Eleanor Drew, MD
Stephen R. Eaton, MD
Gerald R. Fortuna Jr., MD*
Anja G. Fuchs, PhD
Kareem D. Husain, MD
Laurie J. Punch, MD
Jason A. Snyder, MD*
William J. Symons, MD
Isaiah R. Turnbull, MD, PhD
Michael D. Weiss, DPM
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Chukwuma Apakama, MD
Nadia M. Obeid, MD*
Instructors in Surgery
Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Matthew G. Mutch, MD, Chief
Professor of Surgery
Elisa H. Birnbaum, MD
Professor of Surgery
Ira J. Kodner, MD
Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Steven R. Hunt, MD
Paul E. Wise, MD
Associate Professors of Surgery
Sekhar Dharmarajan, MD
Sean C. Glasgow, MD
Matthew L. Silviera, MD
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Section of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery
Jeffrey F. Moley, MD, Chief
Professor of Surgery
Timothy J. Eberlein, MD
William K. Bixby Professor of Surgery; Chair, Department of Surgery
Rebecca L. Aft, MD, PhD
William E. Gillanders, MD
Virginia M. Herrmann, MD
Julie A. Margenthaler, MD
Professors of Surgery
Amy E. Cyr, MD
Katherine Glover-Collins, MD, PhD*
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Section of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Surgery
William G. Hawkins, MD, Chief
Neidorff Family and Robert C. Packman Professor of Surgery
Steven M. Strasberg, MD
Pruett Family Professor of Surgery; Carl Moyer Departmental Teaching Coordinator
David P. Jaques, MD
Professor of Surgery; Vice President of Surgical Services, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Ryan C. Fields, MD
Dirk M. Spitzer, PhD
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
L. Michael Brunt, MD, Chief
Professor of Surgery
Mary E. Klingensmith, MD
Mary Culver Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Michael M. Awad, MD, PhD
J. Christopher Eagon, MD
Associate Professors of Surgery
Jeffrey A. Blatnik, MD
Shaina R. Eckhouse, MD*
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD*
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Section of Transplant Surgery
William C. Chapman, MD, Chief
Eugene M. Bricker Professor of Surgery
Thalachallour Mohanakumar, PhD
Jacqueline G. and William E. Maritz Chair in Immunology and Oncology; Professor of Surgery
Jeffrey A. Lowell, MD
Surendra Shenoy, MD, PhD
Professors of Surgery
Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Surgery
Yiing Lin, MD, PhD
Jason R. Wellen, MD, MBA
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Section of Vascular Surgery
Luis A. Sanchez, MD, Chief
Gregorio A. Sicard Distinguished Professor of Vascular Surgery
Patrick J. Geraghty, MD
Brian G. Rubin, MD
Gregorio A. Sicard, MD
Robert W. Thompson, MD
Professors of Surgery
Jeffrey Jim, MD, MPHS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Sean J. English, MD*
Gerald R. Fortuna Jr., MD*
Kathleen G. Raman, MD, MPH
Nanette R. Reed, MD
Chandu Vemuri, MD
Mohamed A. Zayed, MD, PhD
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Brad W. Warner, MD, Chief
Jessie L. Ternberg, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Surgery; Surgeon-in-Chief, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Patrick A. Dillon, MD
Christopher R. Erwin, PhD
Martin S. Keller, MD
Associate Professors of Surgery
Kathryn Q. Bernabe, MD
Jun Guo, PhD
Jacqueline M. Saito, MD, MSCI
Adam M. Vogel, MD
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Constance Wye Leng Lee, MD*
Instructor of Surgery
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Susan E. Mackinnon, MD, Chief
Sydney M. Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Chair in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Keith E. Brandt, MD
William G. Hamm Professor of Plastic Surgery
Terence M. Myckatyn, MD
Thomas H. Tung, MD
Professors of Surgery
Ida K. Fox, MD
Albert S. Woo, MD
Associate Professors of Surgery
Donald W. Buck II, MD
John M. Felder, MD*
Grant M. Kleiber, MD
Amy M. Moore, MD
Kamlesh B. Patel, MD
Alison K. Snyder-Warwick, MD
Marissa M. Tenenbaum, MD
Matthew D. Wood, PhD
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Division of Public Health Sciences
Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, Chief
Neiss-Gain Professor of Surgery; Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center; Deputy Director, Institute for Public Health
Ross C. Brownson, PhD
Professor of Surgery; Professor, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Sarah Gehlert, PhD
Professor of Surgery; E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Jefferson M. Gill, PhD, MBA
Professor of Surgery; Director, Center for Applied Statistics; Professor, Department of Political Science
Yan Yan, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Joaquin Barnoya, MD
Bettina F. Drake, MPH, PhD
Feng Gao, MD, PhD, MPH, MS
Aimee S. James, PhD, MPH
Yikyung Park, ScD
Mary C. Politi, PhD
Siobhan Sutcliffe, PhD, ScM, MHS
Erika Waters, PhD, MPH
Associate Professors of Surgery
Margaret Olsen, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery; Associate Professor of Medicine
Su-Hsin Chang, PhD
Melody S. Goodman, MS, PhD
Cynthia Herrick, MD*
Jennifer L. Ivanovich, MS, MBA
Cassandra Arroyo Johnson, PhD, MS
Ying Liu, MD, PhD
Rebecca Lobb, ScD, MPH
Esther J. Lu, PhD
Jingqin (Rosy) Luo, PhD
Adetunji T. Toriola, MD, MPH, PhD
Anke C. Winter, MD, MSc
Assistant Professors of Surgery
Kenneth R. Carson, MD
Jean S. Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professors of Surgery; Assistant Professors of Medicine
Erin L. Linnenbringer, PhD
Instructor in Surgery
Division of Urologic Surgery
Gerald L. Andriole Jr., MD, Chief
Robert Killian Royce, MD, Distinguished Professor of Urologic Surgery
Arnold D. Bullock, MD
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Urology
R. Sherburne Figenshau, MD
Taylor Family and Ralph V. Clayman Chair in Minimally Invasive Urology; Professor of Surgery
Paul F. Austin, MD
Sam B. Bhayani, MD
Steven B. Brandes, MD
Ramakrishna Venkatesh, MD
Professors of Surgery
Douglas E. Coplen, MD
Robert L. Grubb III, MD
H. Henry Lai, MD
Seth A. Strope, MD, MPH
Associate Professors of Surgery
Christopher T. Arett, MD*
Alana C. Desai, MD
Gurdarshan S. Sandhu, MD
Ralph J. Torrence, MD
Erica J. Traxel, MD
Gino J. Vricella, MD
Assistant Professors of Surgery
David A. Hardy, MD
Scott R. Manson, PhD
Instructors in Surgery
*Joined faculty in fiscal year 2016-17
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