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Daniel Kichura, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.  He is the Director of Malignant Hematology (Bone Marrow Transplant) Hospitalists and co-chair of the Hospitalist BMT/Oncology Committee.  He attends on the Malignant Hematology and Medical Oncology services, and as a teaching attending for the Internal Medicine residency program (Firm).  He also serves on the Patient Care Operations, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, and Recruitment committees and the Oncology Fall Response Group.  He is interested the care of hospitalized malignant hematology patients, patient safety and quality improvement, teaching medical students and residents, and mentoring new hospitalists.

Adam Kneepkens, MD, joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in July 2025. He was born and raised in Duluth, MN, before attending Saint Louis University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in political science and biology. Following this, he returned to Minnesota to receive his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in the Twin Cities. Kneepkens completed his internal medicine internship and residency training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis prior to joining the Division of Hospital Medicine. He decided to stay at BJH/WashU following residency because of the cooperative culture and excellent patient care offered to all patients. His clinical and professional interests include medical student and resident education, quality improvement work, complex patient care coordination, resource utilization, and improving patient experience.

Brian Kocak, MD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2025. He was born and grew up outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he attended the University of Pittsburgh for undergraduate and medical studies. He graduated summa cum laude with dual degrees in philosophy and microbiology in 2017. He earned his medical degree from 2018-2022. In 2022, Kocak completed his internship and residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital / WashU School of Medicine in St. Louis prior to joining the division. He enjoys all forms of medicine including inpatient care, critical care, teaching, and working with medical students. His specific medical interests include cardiovascular risk assessment and cardiac imaging. He was able to continue scholarly pursuits and is engaged in a project evaluating coronary artery calcium scoring in prediction of preeclampsia in nulliparous women.

Danielle Kubicki, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.  She received her medical degree at Vanderbilt University and trained in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis/BJH, where she completed the BJH/WashU Primary Care in Internal Medicine program.  She has furthered her medical education through contributions to the national Society of General Internal Medicine and the Human Diagnosis Project.  She enjoys teaching residents and medical students on the Hospitalist service.  As a graduate of the Primary Care in Internal Medicine program, she has a particular interest in helping patients transition seamlessly from the hospital to the outpatient setting.

Randy Laine, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. As an attending hospitalist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Dr. Laine manages care for patients with complex illnesses, recognized for his compassionate approach and interdisciplinary collaboration. He dedicates extensive time to direct clinical teaching, mentoring residents, medical, psychiatry, and anesthesiology interns, and physician assistant students. He co-directs a new inpatient medicine clerkship rotation for PA students and serves as the director of the internal medicine consult service at the Psychiatric Care at Delmar Center (PCDC). His administrative leadership includes contributions to several committees focused on recruitment, faculty development, patient safety, quality improvement, ethics, and education. Dr. Laine’s commitment to education and clinical excellence is evidenced by his awards and positive feedback from trainees and colleagues.

Alex Lane, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has interests in medical education of residents, high value care and quality improvement, and inpatient treatment of opiate use disorder. Dr. Lane serves as Co-Director for Intern Education for the Division of Hospitalist Medicine. He attends as a general hospitalist as well as the general medicine inpatient teaching service (FIRM.) He serves on the BJH Glycemic Management Committee and the DHM Education committee, and he has published recent literature using mindful lab ordering to reduce inpatient lab draws.

Gina LaRossa, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She serves as medical director for the 3500 Observation Unit, director of the ED Hospitalist program, co-director of the Medicine Consult service and as key clinical faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Gina has interests in clinical operations, medical education and quality improvement.  She attends frequently on the inpatient medicine teaching service and medicine consult service, as well as caring for patients directly on the hospitalist service.

Eileen Lee, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the School of Medicine’s Phase III Capstone Course, which reinforces and evaluates skills essential for students’ transition to residency.  Dr. Lee has extensive experience in communication skills training, frequently facilitates communication skills exercises for students and residents, and directs the medicine clerkship’s motivational interviewing session.  As part of the Division of Hospital Medicine’s Faculty Development Committee, she helped create the Roads to Success seminar, which imparts junior medicine faculty with basic teaching skills and other foundational knowledge important for a career in academic medicine.  She also created the Division’s Peer Observation of Teaching Program.  Clinically, she serves as an attending on the inpatient medicine (FIRM) service and the procedure service, and she provides direct patient care on the hospitalist service.  She is a fellow in the School of Medicine’s Academy of Educators and a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine.

Han Li, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She attends on direct care and medicine resident teaching services at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Barnes West County, and The Rehab Institute of St. Louis. Her academic interests are in medical education, quality improvement, clinical decision support and user design. She serves as a Deputy Editor at UpToDate, a continuously updated resource providing evidence-based and actionable recommendations guiding clinicians at the point of care.

She previously served as the Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine. Previous work has included creation of the WashU COVID Care Manual, implementation of a sepsis detection alert, and improvement of antibiotic delivery to patients with septic shock.

Adam Littich, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Hospitalist Service at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital (BJWCH).  He is the Chief of Staff at BJWCH until 2026, where he represents the entire medical staff and serves as a liaison between the hospital and the physicians and other providers.  He is active in leadership at BJWCH, being involved in all aspects of the delivery of inpatient care.  He is a member of multiple committees and has a strong interest in quality improvement and high value inpatient care.  In addition to his leadership roles, he continues to enjoy direct patient care as a full-time hospitalist at BJWCH.  Dr. Littich also educates future physicians via the medicine teaching services (FIRM Medicine, Procedure Team) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.  He has been a member of the Division of Hospital Medicine since 2012.

Sonya Liu, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and enjoys working on a variety of different inpatient hospitalist services including general hospitalist service, medicine firm teaching service, nocturnist/admitter, ED hospitalist, oncology/BMT service, Barnes West County, and medical consultation services at TRISL. She used to serve on the Washington University School of Medicine Committee on Admissions to review and rate applications as part of the medical student admissions process. Currently, she serves on the hospitalist Patient Care Operations committee as well as the hospitalist orientation committee. Her areas of interest include teaching medical students and residents, antimicrobial stewardship, and optimizing transitions of care (for example, medication reconciliation on admission and discharge).