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CURRICULUM
VITAE
 Jeffrey
A. West, MD
365 Hawthorne Ave, Suite 201
Oakland CA 94609
(510) 452-1345
Castro Valley Office
20126 Stanton Avenue, Suite #100
Castro Valley, CA 94546
Telephone: (510) 537-3556 Fax: (510) 537-3610
Board-certified invasive, non-interventional
cardiologist, published clinical investigator, and innovative healthcare
technology executive with 10 years of clinical and management experience
in academic and business environments.
Education
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Fellowship Program in Cardiovascular Medicine 6/91 – 6/94
Diplomate, Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine
(certified 11/10/95)
Honors:
American College of Cardiology/Merck Research Fellow for 1994-1995
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard University School of Medicine,
Boston, MA
Residency Program in Internal Medicine 6/88 - 5/91
Diplomate, Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (certified
9/25/91)
Honors: Chief Resident, West Roxbury VAMC
University
of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco,
CA,
MD - achieved 5/88 9/84 –5/88
Honors: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society; UCSF Summer
Research Fellowship
Stanford
University, Department of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford,
CA
BS with Honors and Distinction, Biological Sciences, 1984 9/80 - 6/84
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society; Honors thesis:
“Mechanisms of Angiogenesis”
Clinical
Experience
- Cardiovascular
Consultants Medical Group, Inc.
365 Hawthorne Ave., Suite 201 20126 Stanton Ave., Suite 100
Oakland, CA 94609 Castro Valley, CA 94546
510-452-1345 510-537-3556
Associate Cardiologist, Alameda County 4/02 –
present
Board-certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine.
Skills include transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography,
exercise and pharmacologic stress echo and nuclear perfusion scintigraphy,
diagnostic angiography and right heart catheterization, cardioversion,
tilt table testing, and all forms of ECG interpretation (12-lead,
Holter, signal-averaged ECG).
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Director, Cardiopulmonary Section, Livermore Division,
VAPAHCS 6/95 - 10/99
Reported to the Chief of Staff. Directed and performed clinical operations
for all inpatient/outpatient cardiology at the Livermore Division
as well as managing professional, technical, and administrative staff.
- Performed over 1000
clinical encounters and 700 non-invasive procedures annually
- Conceived and implemented
productivity solutions at the Livermore Division
- Merged cardiology
and pulmonary sections, cross-training technicians in cardiac
and pulmonary diagnostic procedures for improved service and continuity
- Reallocated staff
responsibilities to better meet clinical needs in the setting
of decreased staff resources
- Clinical volume
increased by 200+% over 3 years while staff FTE fell by 40%
- Trained medical students, medical residents, and cardiology fellows
in the Stanford University School of Medicine training programs
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
(Cardiovascular Disease) 10/99 –
Continued involvement with research projects as defined below.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular
Disease)* 6/95 - 10/99
Secured funding and conducted projects on the development, evaluation,
and dissemination of management systems for chronic diseases.
- Designed clinical
trials, managed clinical operations, wrote training manuals, guided
analysis, and authored publications focusing on the use of management
systems (nurse case managers, telephone and computer-based heuristics
of best practices, behavioral modifications for improved adherence,
and remote monitoring systems) for heart failure, coronary heart disease,
hypertension, and dyslipidemia.
- Co-investigator:
- Efficacy
of a Heart Failure Management System
- A Comprehensive
Disease Management System for Hypertension
- Lead developer
of the MULTIFIT? System for Heart Failure, licensed to Ralin Medical/CorSolutions
and successfully used in over 30,000 patients nationwide* Promoted
to Assistant Professor of Medicine from Clinical Assistant Professor
in 1999.
(See selected publications below)
Business Experience
Emblem Systems, Mountain View,
CA
Vice President, Marketing and Product Management,
Co-Founder 5/01 – 11/01
Reported to the CEO. Created strategy and organizational structure,
led R&D and product development, and managed operations for all
aspects of marketing and product management for this evolution of CareThere
into a content management and infobase applications company.
- Repositioned company and product suite in
60 days, launching 3 new products and developing 2 prototype products
with complete marketing collateral and sales plans
- Completed, edited, and licensed for print
publication The Caregivers’ Medical Guide, the premiere textbook
for family caregivers of the disabled and chronically ill
CareThere, Mountain View, CA
Vice President, Marketing and Product
Management, Co-Founder 10/00 – 5/01
Reported to the SVP of Sales and Marketing. Led R&D, product development,
product promotion, public relations, and all marketing initiatives for
this leading online company providing medical, financial, and legal content
and applications for the nation’s 54 million caregivers.
- Managed 8 product lines including products
for consumers, physicians, nurses, vendors of healthcare services, work/life
and other employee programs, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and
publishers
- Achieved 660% user growth rate over 6 months
using online/offline marketing programs
- Sourced, negotiated, and implemented strategic
and product partnerships
Pacific Telemedicine Network,
Half Moon Bay, CA 2/99 - 10/99
Co-Founder
Conceived, financed and sold this eHealth company focused on building
a web-enabled service to enable consumers to acquire and understand relevant
health information for themselves and family members through the use of
an online consumer health record.
- Company acquired by Cambridge Medical Technologies
in 10/99.
Selected Publications
West JA, Miller NH, Parker KM, Senneca D, Ghandour
G, Clark M, Greenwald G, Heller RS, Fowler MB, DeBusk RF. A Comprehensive
Management System for Heart Failure Improves Clinical Outcomes and Reduces
Medical Resource Utilization. Am J Cardiol 1997 Jan 1;79(1):58-63.
West JA, DeBusk RF. Disease management systems
for chronic cardiovascular diseases: focus on heart failure. Adv Intern
Med 2001;46:295-306.
Miller NH, West JA. Telemanagement of Chronic
Heart Failure. in An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Outcomes
in Heart Failure. Moser D and Riegel B (eds.).
Do D, West JA, Morise A, Atwood E, Froelicher
V. A Consensus Approach to Diagnosing Coronary Artery Disease Based on
Clinical and Exercise Test Data. Chest 1997 Jun;111(6):1742-9.
Do D, West JA, Morise A, Atwood JE, Froelicher
V. An Agreement Approach to Predict Severe Angiographic Coronary Artery
Disease with Clinical and Exercise Test Data. Am Heart J 1997 Oct;134(4):672-9.
DeBusk RF, West JA, Miller NH, Taylor CB. Chronic
disease management: treating the patient with disease(s) vs. treating
disease(s) in the patient. Arch Intern Med. 1999 Dec 13-27; 159(22):2739-42. |
