Recipients of the Dean’s Impact Awards represent the compassion, innovation, and commitment required to build dynamic, meaningful, and community-focused efforts to improve clinical care, education, and research.
Jon Ritter, MD, has dedicated more than 30 years of service at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine where he provides superb clinical care, exceptional compassion for patients, and extraordinary respect toward colleagues and caregivers. Despite his heavy clinical responsibilities, Dr. Ritter is a well-recognized, world leading expert in lung diseases, publishing more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, 7 review articles, and 8 book chapters. Dr. Ritter is also an exemplary mentor who cultivates generations of trainees who become outstanding surgical pathologists with successful careers in academic institutions.
Suzanne Thibodeaux, MD, PhD, oversees the transfusion medicine service where she continuously thrives to improve patient care, offering a wide range of services to patients who undergo apheresis. Under her direction, the Cellular Therapy Laboratory offers a broad selection of cell therapy products for patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. In addition to being a superb clinician, Dr. Thibodeaux is a beloved educator and mentor. Her compassionate and personal style of mentorship makes her office a welcoming space for trainees seeking guidance.
On behalf of the entire department, we congratulate Dr. Ritter and Dr. Thibodeaux on this well-deserved honor!