Outlook issue: Winter 2020-21

‘It’s why we got into medicine’
Fierce sense of mission drives front-line workers as they treat COVID-19

A crisis unfolds
COVID-19 surge gives way to unprecedented collaboration, innovation

Significant firsts
Entering class of 2020 undertakes new Gateway Curriculum in pandemic

Mobilizing in a public health crisis
Students make face shields, summarize COVID-19 research, deliver food to those at risk and speak up for racial equity

Combating COVID-19
Medical school labs pivot to fight a common enemy

Advancing medicine 2020
From the office of the dean: "2020 has been a year of truly living up to our missions. It is in times like these that the role of an academic medical center is tested and fully revealed."

Bringing life-saving therapy to the poor
WashU Medicine spearheads collaboration to install radiation machine in Guatemala

Sequencing the future
Generous pledge from James and Elizabeth McDonnell accelerates the expansion of their namesake genome institute

Bill Danforth: A tribute
Current dean of the medical school remembers his predecessor