Amanda F. Cashen, MD

Amanda F. Cashen, MD

Professor; Associate Chief of Hematologic Malignancies

Address:
Division of Oncology
Mail Stop 8007-0029-11
Washington University
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110

11th Floor Mid Campus Center (office)

Admin:
Tanya Cuso
tcuso@wustl.edu

Clinical Interests
  • Lymphoma
  • Leukemia
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Stem cell transplantation
Research
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma
    • Use of novel agents for the treatment of relapsed disease
    • Efficacy and safety of cellular therapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells
    • Improving outcomes after autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation
    • Molecular and genetic factors which predict response to therapy
  • MDS/AML
    • Efficacy and safety of cellular therapies, including treatment with donor-derived memory-like natural killer (ML-NK) cells
Profiles (publications)
WU Physician Bio

Biosketch

Education

  • 1999-1995: MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 1995-1991: BS in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry (summa cum laude), Yale University, New Haven, CT

Post-Graduate Training

  • 2006-2003: Fellow in Hematology-Oncology, Washington University Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2002: Chief Resident, Washington University Internal Medicine Service, John-Cochran VA Medical Center, St. Louis, MO
  • 2002-1999: Resident in Internal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Academic Positions & Employment

  • present-2020: Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2020-2013: Associate Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2019: Executive Chair, Internal Review Board, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  • 2019-2018: Interim Executive Chair, Internal Review Board, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  • 2013-2006: Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2003-2002: Staff Physician, Gold Medicine Service, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO

University & Hospital Appointments

  • present-2015: Department of Medicine Operations Executive Council, Patient Safety Officer for Section of BMT/Leukemia
  • present-2014: Protocol Adherence Review Committee, Washington University Human Research Protection Office
  • 2019-2012: Internal Medicine Residency Selection Committee
  • 2018-2014: Siteman Cancer Center Survivorship Committee
  • 2018-2011: Chair, Protocol Review Committee, Washington University Human Research Protection Office
  • 2018-2005: Transfusion Committee, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
  • 2011-2007: New Protocol Reviewing Committee, Washington University Human Research Protection Office

Board Certification

  • 2006: Medical Oncology, American Board of Internal Medicine
  • 2002: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • 2020: Honored Woman in Oncology, Mildred Thimes Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer
  • 2005: Hematology/Oncology Fellowship grant, Amgen Oncology Institute
  • 2005: Knowlton Incentive for Excellence Award, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
  • 2003: Participant in Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop, sponsored by ASCO/AACR
  • 1998: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Washington University School of Medicine
  • 1997: Award for Excellence in Physical Diagnosis, American College of Physicians
  • 1994: Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University
  • 1996: The George Gill-Kehar Chouke Prizes in Anatomy and the Robert Carter Medical School Prize, Washington University School of Medicine

Professional Societies

  • 2005: American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  • 2004: American Society of Hematology
  • 2004: American Society of Clinical Oncology