Current Fellows

Julia Esswein, M.D.

Program year 1
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
Medical School: University of Missouri Kansas City
Residency: University of Tennessee Health Science Center - Memphis in internal medicine and pediatrics
Fellowship in obesity medicine at Washington University in St. Louis
Areas of Interest: Everything right now! General GI, nutrition, biliary/pancreatic disease
Hobbies: Skeedskating (currently as a referee, but also for fun!), reading, and baking. I play trivia weekly with friends and am a big fan of social exercise.
Favorite aspect of being a SLU/Cardinal Glennon fellow: I am just starting here, but definitely how kind and patient everyone has been from the GI faculty to the other fellows and residents and hospital staff. We see so many different pathologies that no patient on the list is the same.

Ashlesha Bagwe, M.D.

Program year 2
Hometown: Mumbai, India 
Medical school: Rajiv Gandhi Medical College, Thane, India
Residency: University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Areas of interest: Therapeutic/interventional endoscopy
Hobbies: I'm very much into food and cooking! You will always find me trying out new restaurants and recipes. Being a homebody, I love board games, painting and teaching my cat Kiiro new tricks!
Favorite aspect of being a SLU/Cardinal Glennon fellow: The variety of pathologies: From the regular bread and butter GI patients to complex medical conditions. The department always has a lot of great clinical and research opportunities; and fellows are spoilt for choice. Being a tight knit group, every faculty member is easily accessible and invested in your academic progress. Excited to see where these three years will take me!