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Mobilizing the best to start the fight earlier

A multidisciplinary clinic brings WashU Medicine physicians and researchers together to offer diagnostics such as precision radiology and resources such as access to clinical trials to younger patients facing colorectal cancer.

by Kristina Sauerwein•January 27, 2025

Michael Rall-Brown plays with his daughters at the Dennis & Judith Jones Variety Wonderland Playground in Forest ParkMatt Miller

Michael Rall-Brown, who is receiving treatment for colorectal cancer at WashU Medicine, enjoys walking and playing with his daughters at Dennis & Judith Jones Variety Wonderland Playground, and enjoying an ice cream treat on August 24, 2024. MATT MILLER/WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

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WashU Medicine is a global leader in academic medicine, including biomedical research, patient care and educational programs with 2,900 faculty. Its National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding portfolio is the second largest among U.S. medical schools and has grown 56% in the last seven years. Together with institutional investment, WashU Medicine commits well over $1 billion annually to basic and clinical research innovation and training. Its faculty practice is consistently within the top five in the country, with more than 1,900 faculty physicians practicing at 130 locations and who are also the medical staffs of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals of BJC HealthCare. WashU Medicine has a storied history in MD/PhD training, recently dedicated $100 million to scholarships and curriculum renewal for its medical students, and is home to top-notch training programs in every medical subspecialty as well as physical therapy, occupational therapy, and audiology and communications sciences.

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Kristina Sauerwein

Senior Sciences Writer

314-747-7921

k.sauerwein@wustl.edu

Kristina covers pediatrics, surgery, medical education and student life. In 2020, she received a gold Robert G. Fenley Writing Award for general staff writing from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and in 2019, she received the silver award. Kristina is an author and former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of a team of journalists that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for breaking news. Additionally, she covered the 2014 Ferguson unrest for TIME magazine and, for eight years, wrote a popular parenting column for BabyCenter.com.

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