Anyone in a leadership position in the St. Louis metropolitan area should consider the impact that Andrew Ziskind, M.D., has had on Barnes-Jewish Hospital since he came to St. Louis in May 2005 to serve as its president. Ziskind has told the American that the segregation and racial disparities he found in St. Louis shocked him, compared to his previous working and community relationships at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Maryland in College Park.