Richard Samuel Hotchkiss, M.D.

Present Position

Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Surgery, and Developmental Biology

Washington University School of Medicine

660 South Euclid Avenue

St. Louis, Missouri  63110

(314) 362-8560


Education

Undergraduate:

  • University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, B.A., 1972

Graduate:

  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, M.D., 1976

Postgraduate:

  • 1976 – 1978: Internship and Residency in Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1978 – 1979: Chief Medicine Resident, Emory University School of Medicine
  • 1979 – 1980: Fellow in Intensive Care, University of Virginia
  • 1980 – 1981: Senior Fellow-Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Massachusetts General 
  • 1982 – 1984: Resident in Department of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Professional Experience

  • 1982 – 1983: Instructor in Anesthesia/Attending in Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
  • 1985 – 1987: Clinical Associate in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • 1984 – 1987: Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine, Emory Univ. School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
  • 1987 – 1996: Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
  • 1996 – present: Associate Professor in Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
  • 1997 – present: Associate Professor in Medicine and Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
  • 2002 – present: Professor in Anesthesiology, Medicine, Surgery, and Developmental Biology

Honors and Awards

  • Todorovich Lecturer in Anesthesiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine 2017 
  • I.S. Ravdin Lecture on Basic Sciences at the 98th American College of Surgeons Meeting. – Chicago IL 10/3/12  
  • Scientific Achievement Award – Shock Society 2012
  • Henning Pontoppidan Visiting Professorship – Massachusetts General Hospital 2011
  • Distinguished Investigator Award -Washington University School of Medicine 2008
  • Distinquished Service Award for the Shock Society 2007
  • President of the Shock Society 2006
  • NIGMS MERIT Award 2003-2013 
  • Nobel Symposium No. 124 Septicemia and Shock, Invited Lecturer, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003
  • Research Career Development Award – National Institutes of Health,  Awarded 1995 
  • Chief Resident in Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 1979
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, University of Virginia
  • Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia, Echols Scholar, 1972