ACW Alliance has been named chief construction manager for the long-term project to renew the medical center campus on Kingshighway Boulevard, which encompasses Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

William C. Chapman, MD, FACS has been named as the Eugene M. Bricker Chair of Surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine.

Michael R. Bleich, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, has been named the next dean of the Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital has been selected to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a first-of-its-kind national effort to significantly improve breastfeeding rates in states where rates are currently the lowest.

Approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of fenestrated endovascular stent grafts allows vascular surgeons at the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center to be among few in the nation providing a new alternative to patients diagnosed with complex abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).