Apr 2014
As a nurse navigator, Van Hook advocates for patients by getting them the support and information needed to navigate the health care system.
Jun 2012
Daren Kest, DO, Northwest ENT Consultants, used the da Vinci robotic surgery system on June 19, 2012, to perform the Hospital’s first Trans Oral Robotic Surgery (TORS), with a radical tonsillectomy that successfully treated a case of throat cancer.
Feb 2011
Washington University cardiothoracic surgeons Sunil Prasad, MD; Nabil Munfakh, MD; and Travis Crabtree, MD, performed the St. Louis region’s first full-lung lobectomy to effectively treat lung cancer.