Trauma Research Chair
North Memorial Health
University of Minnesota
Michaela A. West, MD, PhD, currently serves as the Trauma Research Chair at North Memorial Health Care, a Level 1 Trauma Center in Minneapolis, MN. where she is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota and an Emeritus Professor Surgery at UCSF. Dr West grew up in eastern Wisconsin and received her undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She greduated from the Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, and she obtained her surgical, critical care training, and PhD at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She is Board-Certified in general surgeon and surgical critical care and has extensive experience in general, emergency, and trauma surgery. She has served on the academic surgical faculty of Washington University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, and the University of California San Francisco. During her career she has authored or coauthored more than 260 peer-reviewed papers and other publications concerning sepsis, surgical infections, and a variety of other topics. More recently she has also focused on diversity issues in surgery and medicine. Dr West has a life long passion for skiing and travel. She is a certified ski instructor and a proud grandparent of 7 grandchildren.
IDEA Committee Lecture: Perspectives on Trans-forming Surgical Care
Friday, September 16, 2022
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Panel: Difficult Polytrauma Cases: Multidisciplinary
Friday, September 16, 2022
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM East Coast USA Time
Disclosure information not submitted.
