KathrynLPlaxMD(She/Her)

Summary

• Dr. Katie Plax is the Division Chief of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Medical Director of The SPOT. Dr. Plax has chosen to focus her career on changing health for disempowered populations through patient care, teaching, advocacy and research. In pursuing these areas, she recognizes change can be made at the individual level with adolescent patients, at the regional level by teaching residents to consider the complexity of patients living in poverty and impacted by racial inequity, and at the state and national level through systemic advocacy for policy change. The link between these areas is central to Dr. Plax’s participation in the development of the SPOT, a youth specific drop in center, to serve the health and social service needs of 13-24-year olds. In its ten years of operation, the SPOT served over 15,000 youth throughout the St. Louis region.