Faculty

Parneet Kaur Hari, MD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at WashU Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2025. She was born in Bathinda, a small town in the state of Punjab, India, in 1996. She completed her medical education at Government Medical College in Patiala and graduated with an M.B.B.S. degree in 2021. Hari moved to the United States to pursue residency training in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Jackson Hospital in Michigan in July 2022. Her research interests include hepatology, liver immunology, the gut-liver axis, and the gut-brain axis. She is passionate about healthcare media and patient awareness, aspiring to make medical knowledge more accessible while fostering clarity, trust, and public understanding. She enjoys teaching medical students and residents, promoting an environment that encourages continuous learning and growth in the field of medicine.

Krysta Heath, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.  She completed internal medicine residency at Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital.  Her primary role is direct care of hospitalized patients at both Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital.  She has a particular interest in nocturnist medicine.  She serves on the patient care operations committee and has an interest in patient triage and throughput as well as admission efficiency.

Benjamin L. Hoemann, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his internal medicine residency at Washington University in St. Louis / Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He has a special interest in addiction medicine and implementation science. He is the inaugural Hospital Medicine Research Fellow and a member of the quality improvement and patient safety and research committees within the division. He works as an attending physician on the general medicine and teaching hospitalist services.

Thomas Hoyt, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine with special interests in resident and undergraduate medical education. He currently serves on the Gateway Medicine Clerkship Clinical Competency Committee for Phase 2 Medical Students. Additionally, he is a member of various committees with a focus on improving care for patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). He attends on a variety of services including the General Medicine Inpatient Teaching Service as well as Hospitalist Direct Care at both Barnes-Jewish Main and West County Hospitals.

Alvin Jeon, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. He received his medical degree from Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and completed his internal medicine residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis. He has a growing interest in medical education and efficient inpatient care. He attends primarily on the general inpatient hospitalist and oncology hospitalist services at this time, and he looks forward to working with students and residents.

Eric K. Johnson, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.  His work responsibilities balance inpatient care on the Hospitalist and Consult services with supervising as attending on both the Firm and Procedure services.  Primary interests include medical student and resident education, particularly guiding and optimizing evidence-based patient care and honing clinical problem-solving skills.  Accordingly, he is a regular discussant at the weekly CPC (Clinicopathologic Conference), which showcases astute medical diagnosis through a multidisciplinary approach, and he has received multiple Teacher of the Year awards to date.  He has also contributed to three consecutive editions of The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics.  An additional, albeit more informal passion of his has been following the COVID-19 pandemic since its inception, which has so far yielded several publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Anand Kadakia joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. He completed his medical education at the Government Medical College of Baroda in India. Dr. Kadakia actively engaged in community service initiatives, particularly focusing on assisting patients with sickle cell disease. He conducted research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, investigating the role of NAD in diabetic neuropathy. Dr. Kadakia completed his Internal Medicine residency at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in New Jersey, where he prioritized serving underserved populations and leading quality improvement projects.

Lalit Kalvala, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. He primarily works on general medicine floors and occasionally on oncology and bone marrow transplant floors. He contributes to the recruitment of hospitalists by serving as a member of the Hospitalist Recruitment Committee. Additionally, he is dedicated to patient safety and quality improvement, participating as a member of the Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Committee.

Syeda Ashna Fatima Kamal, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Kamal was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and spent much of her formative years in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she completed her middle school, high school, and college education. She earned her medical degree from Dow International Medical College in Pakistan, graduating in 2018. Her postgraduate training began with an internal medicine residency internship at Lincoln Medical Center in Bronx, New York. She then continued her internal medicine residency as a PGY-2 and PGY-3 at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, Illinois, where she graduated in 2024. Following her residency, she pursued a palliative care fellowship at Saint Louis University, completing it in 2025. Kamal is committed to providing exceptional patient care, contributing to medical education, and continuing her involvement in clinical research, particularly in the realm of oncology and hematology.

Ankita Kapoor, MD, MBBS, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in October 2022. She provides direct care to patients admitted on the Hospitalist Service at BJH as well as BJWCH. She serves as the Director of the Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) Workforce Development, in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She enjoys teaching residents and medical students along with the PA students. She has assisted with curating an APC educational Curriculum and a robust APC evaluation process. She is also the Director of the Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program for APCs at BJH. Dr. Kapoor serves on several committees within the Division, such as Physician and APC Recruitment, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety as well as Orientation. She is also involved in the WashU Gateway Medical Conference Task Force. She also aids in interviewing and recruiting medical students for the IM Residency Program. Her current areas of interest are general internal medicine, particularly hospital medicine and inpatient services.

Dr. Kaya joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. She was accepted to one of the top third medical schools in Turkey after being part of the 0.1 percentile of students in the national exam of Turkey. During medical school, she participated in multiple community service projects with the Rotary International Organization in Turkey, including blood donation projects to raise awareness and mental/mood supporting projects for children in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology hospitals. After completing medical school, she started to work as a research fellow in Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, by 2020. She participated in multiple research projects during her time at the Cleveland Clinic about inflammatory bowel diseases and advanced endoscopic procedures, including endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection. She completed her Internal Medicine training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Central Pennsylvania prior to joining the division.

Martin Kerrigan, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and serves as a Co-Director of the Internal Medicine Service in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Kerrigan also serves as the Internal Medicine Associate Clerkship Director for the School of Medicine and works as a Physician Utilization Management Advisor for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. His clinical interests include medical consultation, medical student education, curriculum development, and providing high value clinical care. He attends on the inpatient general medicine teaching service (Firm), on the medicine consult service, and on the hospitalist direct care service.

Amani Khalouf, MD, joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in October 2025. She was born and raised in Damascus, Syria before moving to the United Arab Emirates in 2013 to pursue her medical degree in Medicine and Surgery in University of Sharjah, UAE, while simultaneously working on basic cellular research in modifying biological pathways involved in Obesity. Dr. Khalouf graduated with Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2019 and joined Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi for Emergency Medicine Residency. During her residency, she served in acute stepdown units of COVID 19 patients during the COVID 19 outbreak. Meanwhile, Dr. Khalouf cultivated her interest in Cardiac Critical Care and was involved in multiple research projects including COVID 19 patients and Cardiac patients. She then moved to the USA for further training and completed her Internal Medicine Residency training in Rochester General Hospital, NY in 2025. She has special interest in autonomic dysfunction groups and POTS patients.

Dr. Ali Ayub Khan joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. He grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, before attending the University of Oklahoma for undergraduate studies. He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with a minor in Spanish while also completing the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. He dedicated much of his time during undergrad to the service of his community, specifically the underserved and uninsured Hispanic populations, through volunteer work at free medical clinics. He continued his studies at the University of Oklahoma and obtained a master’s degree in science in the field of prevention sciences and addiction. He went on to receive his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma—Tulsa School of Community Medicine. Dr. Khan then completed his internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. His training at this large university center and safety net hospital further reinforced the importance of socioeconomic factors on population health and health disparities.

Dr. Hazera Khatun joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. She earned her MBBS degree from Dhaka Medical College in Bangladesh and completed her hematology training, receiving a fellowship from BCPS. Dr. Khatun has published multiple articles in clinical research on hematology. She obtained an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from King's College London, UK, as a Commonwealth Scholar. In the USA, she completed her residency in Internal Medicine and has been practicing as a full-time hospitalist since 2019. Dr. Khatun also has a keen interest in clinical education and briefly taught as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine.

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.

Michael Lin, MD, SFHM, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine. His interests include teaching and education, process improvement, and utilization management. He serves on the Internal medicine residency program evaluation committee, the Department of Medicine’s operations executive council, and multiple other committees for both Washington University and BJC Healthcare.  He serves on the Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Conference Committee and a member of the Executive Council of the Society of Hospital Medicine Interhospital Transfer Special Interest Group. He chaired two Society of Hospital Medicine’s Academic Hospitalist Leadership Summits and served on the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Academic committee. He is president-elect of the Barnes Jewish Hospital Medical Staff Association. He serves as a physician advisor for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He is the medical director of the BJC Healthcare system transfer center covering 11 hospitals across the system.

Patricia Litkowski, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Medical Director of Patient Experience at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She also serves as the Director of Hospitalist Services for Inpatient Medical Oncology. She has interest in the care of hospitalized patients with cancer, interprofessional communication and teamwork, and improving the overall experience that patients have while receiving care in the hospital. Her research interests include reducing readmissions and improving length of stay.

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).

Francis Loh, MD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2025. He was born in Saint Louis and subsequently lived in Japan and New Jersey. He attended Harvard University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics with a focus on statistics. He returned to Saint Louis and received his medical degree in 2021 from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Loh completed his internship and residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/WashU School of Medicine in 2024. He then joined the Division of Internal Medicine in 2024 as Chief Resident at Barnes-Jewish/WashU School of Medicine where he advocated fiercely for resident workflow, quality of life, and educational improvements and taught residents and medical students clinical reasoning. Loh’s current areas of interest include general internal medicine with focus on medical education, clinical reasoning, and helping those around him rise.

Ningning Ma, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.  She completed internal medicine residency at Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital.  She is a member of the patient care operations committee. Her primary role is direct care of hospitalized patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She has a particular interest in nocturnist medicine and nighttime resident education.

Sarakshi Mahajan, MD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as a clinical instructor in July, 2023. She recently completed her fellowship in geriatrics from University of Arkansas Medical Sciences in June, 2023. Her special clinical interests encompass inpatient medicine, with emphasis on patient safety and quality improvement, medical education, geriatric medicine and improvement of elderly care in hospitals, neuro-cognitive disorders, and public health. Her research interests include microbiome and its role in neuro-cognitive impairment, role of artificial intelligence in medicine, improving outcomes in patients with delirium, and identifying and reducing caregiver stress.

Khalid Mahmood, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and works primarily on the Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant service as a hospitalist. His main area of interest is improving the quality of care amongst patients admitted to Oncology/BMT service. He is also involved in clinical research within the realm of oncology, which aids in the management of the complex medical problems of solid organ and leukemia patients. He serves as an active member of the Oncology/BMT committee which mainly focuses on QA/QI projects to further improve this growing niche of hospital medicine.

Robert Mahoney, MD, FACP, SFHM, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University. He serves as Vice Chief of Clinical Efficiency for the Division of Hospital Medicine and Lead Utilization Management Physician Advisor for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He chairs the Hospital Medicine division’s Education Committee and Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s Health Information Management committee; he co-chairs the Hospital’s Laboratory Stewardship committee and serves on School of Medicine’s Committee on Admissions. He attends on the direct care and teaching (Firm) services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the internal medicine consult service and the bedside procedure service. His expertise includes medical coding and documentation, health information management, medical education, evidence-based medicine, and case management and care progression. He is certified in physician-based coding and has been named Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and a Castle Connolly Top Doctor.

Dr. Hannah Markova joined the Division of Hospital as an Instructor in Medicine in June 2024. She was born and raised here in St. Louis, Missouri. She went on to attend the University of Cincinnati after receiving a scholarship to play Division I tennis. She graduated summa cum laude with university honors in 2016 with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. Dr. Markova received the Helen Weinberger Prize, awarded to the top three graduating seniors in Phi Beta Kappa by GPA, as well as the Academic All-American award for her achievements as a student-athlete. After college, she completed a year of research focusing on potential biomarkers for glioblastoma in the Saint Louis University Department of Pharmacology and Physiology. Dr. Markova went on to receive her medical degree in 2021 from the University of Missouri. During her time in medical school, she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and served as the Education Chair for her medical school’s Global Health journal club. Dr. Markova completed her internship and residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis prior to joining the division in 2024. Her clinical interests are general inpatient care with a special interest in infectious disease and quality improvement, as well as the clinical education of medical students and residents.

Nathan Martin, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM) with primary focus and interest in the care of hospitalized medical patients.  He completed residency here at WashU/BJH in 2008 and has been on the faculty ever since.  He spends the vast majority of his time taking care of patients either independently as a traditional Hospitalist, or while supervising residents and medical students on the Firm service.  In addition, he spends time providing medical consultations for other services and attends on the Medicine Procedure service performing various procedures including lumbar punctures and paracentesis.  While clinical care is the mainstay of his interest and what he feels is most essential as a Hospitalist, he also co-directs our Medicine Triage Attending (MTA) service.  He co-founded the MTA service in July 2020 and remains a leader in ensuring the service continues to be successful.  The MTA service triages all medicine patients from the ED, from direct admission locations, as well as from outside hospitals – we always try to ensure the right patient is on the right service at the right time.

Cheryl McDonough, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and attends on a variety of services including the inpatient medicine teaching service and direct care hospitalist service and serves as a medical consultant at the Rehab Institute of St Louis.  She is interested in medical education, particularly in modeling effective and empathetic patient and family communication skills.  She is a member of the Division of Hospital Medicine Patient Safely and Quality Improvement committee and serves as a BJH Case Management Physician Advisor.

Nikita Melnikov, MD joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as a Clinical Instructor in July 2025.Originally from the southern seaside town of Taganrog, Russia, Melnikov moved to Moscow to attend Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Medicine, where he graduated summa cum laude with a Doctor of Medicine degree. While in medical school, Melnikov honed his research skills, contributing to fundamental studies in Pathology, Biophysics, and Oncology. After graduation, he continued to conduct research, provide care to underserved populations, and started tutoring medical students. Melnikov took his passion for medicine, teaching, and community service to Waterbury, CT, where he completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine program 2022-2025.

Priya Menon, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and predominantly works in the oncology and bone marrow transplant service as a hospitalist. She has a special interest in immuno-oncology, targeted therapy, and antibiotic stewardship. She is also motivated in teaching the residents and other learners rotating through oncology and BMT service. While here at WashU, she hopes to continue to work on her research and scholarly activities in the field of oncology. Dr. Menon is a member of the BMT and IDEAS committees.

Eric Mittauer, MD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in July of 2025. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up across the country in Florida, Virginia, Connecticut, and Iowa. He attended college at the University of Iowa, graduating with honors in 2018 with a BS in Human Physiology and a minor in Biology. He attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 2022. Mittauer completed internship and residency at WashU School of Medicine in St. Louis /Barnes-Jewish Hospital, graduating in 2025. After multiple stages of medical training at WashU/Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Mittauer is thrilled to stay on and join an accomplished group of hospitalists in providing excellence in patient care and medical education.

Dr. Yaman Mkhaimer joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. He was born and raised in Amman, Jordan, where he received his medical degree at the Hashemite University of Jordan in 2016. In 2020, he moved to Minnesota to join the Mayo Clinic Nephrology and Hypertension Department as a research associate to further his interest in clinical research. Shortly after, he joined the University of Missouri Kansas City, where he completed his Internal Medicine residency prior to joining the division in 2024. Dr. Mkhaimer developed a compelling interest in the cardiology and heart failure fields, immersing himself in research studies with a particular focus on quality and outpatient follow-up improvement. He was even provided the opportunity to present several papers at the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association conferences. His present academic interests center around general Internal Medicine, with a specific inclination towards acute cardiovascular care, quality improvement initiatives, and employing multidisciplinary approaches to medical treatment.

Majd Mokbel, MD joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in July 2025, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hospital Medicine. He started his journey at the University of Michigan Dearborn for his undergraduate studies, graduating with a double major in biochemistry and Spanish. Following graduation, Mokbel served in AmeriCorps City Year, working in a 6^th grade math classroom in inner-city Detroit. Afterwards, Mokbel attended the University of Michigan Medical School, graduating in 2021. Throughout medical school, he helped lead the Project H community clinic which served unhoused individuals in the Detroit area, and the Medical Students of Middle Eastern Descent student group. In 2025, he completed his residency in combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at the University of Michigan where he led various refugee health initiatives. His continued clinical interests are in refugee health, medical education, and pediatric to adult care transitions.

Alyssa Moller, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She attends on a mix of hospitalist direct care, inpatient teaching service, medicine consults, and ED hospitalist. She is involved in several projects on the topic of addiction medicine aimed to enhance hospitalist education of important topics in addiction, improve inpatient Epic order sets for opiate use disorder, and increase implementation of medication assisted therapy for opiate abuse. She also interviews applicants for the IM residency program and serves on committees for hospitalist recruitment and compensation.

Zachary Morgan, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. His primary interests are in clinical operations and medical education. He is the Co-Director for Patient Care Operations for the Division of Hospital Medicine and co-chair of the Patient Care Operations Committee. He is a member of the Division of Hospital Medicine Leadership Team as well as the Education Committee. He attends on a variety of direct patient care and teaching services. Dr. Morgan is Key Faculty for the Internal Medicine residency, directing the Hospital Medicine portion of the residency noon conference curriculum and serving as an interviewer and application evaluator. He lectures residents on topics such as VTE prophylaxis, perioperative medicine, and length of stay reduction, and has created faculty development sessions about the use of mini-lectures.

Monalisa Mullick, MD, serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine within Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Her primary interests lie in medical education, where she actively engages as a facilitator during intern and resident reports, attends on bedside procedure and teaching services. She has contributed to projects aimed at enhancing inpatient rounding processes. Additionally, her passion includes mentoring residents and students and promoting faculty and learner wellness.

Bashar Natour, MD joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in 2025. Born and raised in Amman, Jordan, he earned his medical degree from the Hashemite University Medical School in 2019 before moving to the United States to continue his training. Natour completed his internal medicine residency at Cook County Health from 2021 to 2024. As Chief Resident, Natour was heavily involved in medical education, leading morning report, journal club, ambulatory lecture series, and simulation lab sessions to enhance clinical reasoning and procedural skills among trainees. Natour’s clinical interests include hospital medicine, gastroenterology, and preventive care, with a focus on optimizing patient outcomes through evidence-based practice and quality improvement initiatives. He is particularly passionate about medical education, regularly mentoring medical students and residents to foster a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

Dr. Nathan Andrew Neilson is an Instructor in Medicine at the Division of Hospital Medicine since June 2024. He graduated magna cum laude from Ohio State University with a biology major and minors in human nutrition and Spanish. Dr. Neilson received his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society. He completed his internship and residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine. During residency, he participated in the Global Health Pathway, conducting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis research in Accra, Ghana. Dr. Neilson actively contributes to LGBTQ+ community outreach and was involved in organizing a Pride festival in Peoria, Illinois.

Dr. Spoorthi Nutakki is a dedicated Instructor in Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine’s Division of Hospital Medicine since July 2022. She provides comprehensive patient care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital, including day and night shifts throughout the year. Dr. Nutakki is responsible for developing treatment plans, collaborating with case management and social work for discharge planning, and supervising residents and medical students on the hospitalist service. She has contributed to quality improvement by training residents in ultrasound guided IV lines to reduce reliance on interventional radiology. Since 2020, Dr. Nutakki has actively managed and taught junior residents in the care of COVID-19 patients. Her commitment to education is reflected in her roles as an instructor in medicine, providing mentorship and guidance to junior residents and medical students.