Dr. Timothy Ackerman joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at Washington University in July 2024 as an Instructor in Medicine. He graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors from Rutgers University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Cellular Biology and Neuroscience. Prior to pursuing medicine, he worked in the medical diagnostics industry, focusing on the development of rapid in vitro diagnostic kits for infectious diseases. After enrolling in the study of medicine at St. George’s University, he graduated in 2017. Following his residency, Dr. Ackerman joined the faculty at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport School of Medicine as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics. He served as the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, leading the Clinical Competency Committee. Additionally, Dr. Ackerman is part of the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics.
Education
BA, Cell Biology and Neuroscience: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (2008)
Medical Degree: St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies (2017)
Residency, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE (2021)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics
- American Board of Internal Medicine
Clinical Interests
Hospital medicine, medical education, and the advancement of combined Med-Peds, especially its role in inpatient medicine
Research Projects
12/2020-03/2021 Cellular mechanisms contributing to the resolution of mucous cell metaplasia under John D Dickinson MD, PhD, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, University of Nebraska Medical Center
01/2006-05/2008 Regulation of RhoA in Non-canonical Wnt Signaling under Raymond Habas PhD, Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Presented as poster and senior thesis