Sterling G. West
M.D.
Professor of Medicine

Medical School:  Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Postgraduate training:

1976-1979 Internship/Residency Internal Medicine, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center Aurora, Colorado
1979-1981 Fellowship Rheumatology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center  Washington, D.C.
    

When arrived at UCD: 1995

Past and current professional positions: 

1981-1995 Chief, Rheumatology Department of Internal Medicine, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, CO
1983-1986 Clinical Instructor Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology University of Colorado Denver
1986-1990 Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology University of Colorado Denver
1990-1995   Associate Clinical Professor Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology University of Colorado Denver
1995-1998   Clinical Director Autoimmune Disease Center, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO
1995-Present  Professor, Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program Director Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology University of Colorado Denver
1998-Present Co Director Metabolic Bone Disease Center, University of Colorado Denver

National commitments, positions:

Member ABIM Subspecialty Board on Rheumatology
Member ACR Committee on Rheumatology Training and Workforce Issues

Awards and Honors received:

  AMSUS Phillip Hench Award
  Order of Military Medical Merit
  Outstanding Staff Teacher Award
  UCD Clinical Faculty Research Award
  Laureate Award American College of Physicians
  The Best Doctors in America Award
  Denver's Top Doctors Award
  ACR Clinical Scholar Educator Award
  Master, American College of Physicians

Description of research interests and/or clinical trial interests:

Major area of research interest is in the pathophysiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric lupus.  Clinical research trial currently ongoing is measuring cognitive dysfunction and depression in SLE patients and correlating symptoms with MRI and MR spectroscopy abnormalities.  Additional areas of interest are metabolic bone disease and clinical trials.

Representative publications:
 

  1. West SG: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Nervous System.  In Wallace DJ, Hahn BH (eds), Dubois' Lupus Erythematous, 7th ed. Philadelphia. Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 2007. pp 707-746.
  2. West SG et al. Renal involvement in SLE. In Schrier RW (ed), Diseases of the Kidney and Urinary Tract. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 2007. pp 1673-1699.
  3. West SG. Ankylosing spondylitis. In Rakel RE, Bope ET (eds) Conn's Current Therapy, Philadelphia, Elsevier Saunders, 2005. pp 1124-1127.
  4. West SG. Systemic diseases in which arthritis is a feature. In Goldman L, Ausiello D (eds), Cecil Textbook of Medicine (22nd ed). Philadelphia. Harcourt, 2004. pp 1716-1720.
  5. West SG, Kotzin BL. Sarcoidosis. In Hochberg M, et al (eds), Rheumatology (3rd ed). London. Harourt, 2003. pp 1735-1746.
  6. West SG (ed): Rheumatology Secrets, 2nd ed, Philadelphia, Hanley and Belfus, Inc., 2002.