Courtois, Hedgepeth Named Community Hospital Radiology Chiefs
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine has named Constance S. Courtois, MD, chief of radiology at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital and Bruce L. Hedgepeth, MD, chief of radiology at Phelps Health in Rolla, Missouri. In their new roles, they will deliver, improve and expand clinical services at their respective community hospitals.
Courtois will serve as chief of radiology at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital, where she has served as an assistant professor since 1997. Her clinical and research interests include interventional radiology, cardiovascular radiology, gallstone removal and atrial fibrillation. She is part of MIR’s Executive Diversity Committee.
Courtois earned her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her diagnostic radiology residency and an interventional radiology fellowship at MIR, as well as a cardiothoracic surgery research fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Interventional Radiology.
Hedgepeth will serve as chief of radiology at Phelps Health in Rolla, Missouri. He has worked at Phelps Health since 2019 and his clinical interests include breast imaging.
Hedgepeth earned his medical degree from University of Arizona College of Medicine before completing his diagnostic radiology residency at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He completed a women’s imaging fellowship at Duke University School of Medicine, a PET/CT fellowship at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and a nuclear medicine fellowship at MIR. He is a member of the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Breast Imaging.
