Dr. West is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with nearly two decades of experience specializing in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. After graduating with honors from the Stanford Medical School with a Bachelor’s of Science in Medical Microbiology, Doctor West received his doctorate of medicine from the University of California at Irvine. His surgical training has included many of the finest institutions in America including Harbor-UCLA, the University of Kansas Medical Center, the Burnett Burn Center of Kansas City, the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children-Los Angeles. He is formally trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery, pediatric plastic surgery and pediatric burn reconstruction.
Dr. West has published articles in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, (the premier journal of plastic surgery), the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Microsurgery, Pediatric Surgery International and many other peer-reviewed journals. While in surgical training, he received a top research award from the California Society of Plastic Surgeons for work with the use of ultra sound in medicine. He served as an assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of California Davis, teaching general surgery and plastic surgery residents. He has given presentations to a wide variety of medical specialties including the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, the California Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Pediatric Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery.
Dr. West’s fascination with surgery and passion for plastic surgery encompasses working with patients of all ages, addressing both their aesthetic and reconstructive surgery needs. He is as skilled with reconstructing a baby’s cleft lip and palate as with restoring a woman’s youthful beauty with a face lift. Dr. West’s skills and talent allow him to restore a mother’s youthful abdomen and breasts after child birth or to recreate a missing breast after a loss to cancer. By applying the most modern plastic surgery techniques, he is able to give you a new self confidence with an enhanced body image, help you discover that hidden sex appeal, or restore your damaged self image. Dr. West performs facial rejuvenation with face, neck, and brow lifts, eye lid surgery, Botox injections, nose and ear surgery, collagen and fat injections, and laser resurfacing. Body contouring is accomplished via tummy tucks (anterior and circumferential), liposuction, and thigh and buttocks lifts. Breast surgeries include augmentation (saline and silicone implants), reductions and lifts. Dr. West is dedicated to achieving the results you desire with minimal scar surgery and the fastest recovery time possible. He focuses on giving each patient the special time and attention they need and deserve, both before and after surgery.
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9/83 to 6/87
University of California at Irvine
Doctor of Medicine
7/82 to 6/83
Stanford University
Master of Science, Biology
Thesis: The Effects of Thermotolerance on Lidocaine,
Procaine and Tetracaine CHO – HAI Cytotoxicity.”
9/78 to 6/82
Stanford University School of Medicine
Bachelor of Science with Honors – Medical Microbiology
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State of California Medical License 1989 active.
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American Board of Plastic Surgery 2002.
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support 1992 to present
Advanced Burn Life Support 1994.
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1994 to present
American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
1987 to present
American College of Surgeons.
American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery.
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5/95
“Corticosteroid Treatment of Hypertrophic Scars: Reducing Doses
and Side Effects While Maintaining Effectiveness.”
Presented at the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Plastic Surgeons. San Diego, California.
11/92
“Evaluation of a Temporary Arteriovenous Shunt to Establish
Neovascularization in a Musculocutaneous Flap.”
Presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Reconstructive Microsurgery. Scottsdale, Arizona.
3/92
“Emergent Re-Use Leech Therapy: A Better Method.”
Presented at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the California
Society of Plastic Surgeons. Newport Beach, California.
11/91
“Wound Healing: A Comprehensive Review.”
Presented at Grand Rounds, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center –
Department of Surgery. Los Angeles, California.
10/91
“A Better Incision for Pectus Excavatum Repair: Avoiding the
Keloid Triangle.”
Presented at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the American Academy
Pediatrics – Surgical Section. New Orleans, Louisiana.
5/91
“Ionotophoretic Lidocaine as a Method of Local Anesthesia in the
Pediatric Patient.”
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Society,
Society for Pediatric Research. New Orleans, Louisiana.
3/91
“Bone Debridement Techniques: Effectiveness Versus Destructiveness.”
Presented at the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the California
Society of Plastic Surgeons. San Francisco, California.
10/90
“Leech Therapy: Re-Use in Plastic Surgery Emergencies.”
Presented at the Biopharm International Symposium on Leech
Therapy. Charleston, South Carolina.
10/90
“Benign Testicular Tumors in Children with Congenital Adrenal
Hyperplasia.”
Presented at the Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Pediatrics – Surgical Section. Boston, Massachusetts.
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4/94
“A Better Incision for Pectus Excavatum Repair: Avoiding the
Keloid Triangle.”
Pediatric Surgery International. 9 (4), 301-303, 1994
4/94
“Emergent Re-Use Leech Therapy: A Better Method.”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 93 (5), 1095-1098, 1994
3/94
“Ultrasound Debridement of Trabeculated Bone: Effective and
Atraumatic.”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 93 (3), 561-566, 1994
1/94
“Evaluation of a Temporary Arteriovenous Shunt to Establish
Neovascularization in a Musculocutaneous Flap.”
Microsurgery. 15, 63-69, 1994
5/92
“Benign Testicular Tumors in Children with Congenital Adrenal
Hyperplasia.”
Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 27 (5), 639-641, 1992
2/91
“Leech Therapy: When Once is Not Enough.”
Blood, Coagulation and Fibrinloysis. 2, 197-200, 1991.
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2/06
Outstanding Graduate,
Air War College
Air University,
Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
9/03
Distinguished Graduate,
Air University,
COT class 03-08,
Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
3/91
Third Place, Best Resident’s Paper.
California Society of Plastic Surgeons, San Francisco, California.
12/82
Bachelors of Science with Honors,
Stanford University School of Medicine.
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8/92
“A Better Incision for Pectus Excavatum Repair: Avoiding the
Keloid Triangle.”
Journal of Pediatric Surgery. August 1992, 1163-1164.
7/91
“Young Doctors Bearing Brunt of AIDS?”
American Medical News. July 22, 1991, 27.
11/90
“Suitability of the Rat Femoral Vessel as a Microsurgical Model.”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. November 1990, 1042-1043.
9/90
“Dilemmas.”
Stanford Magazine. September 1990, 14.
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