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ROBERT ELDEN VESTAL MD
Clinical Professor
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle WAConsultant
Research and Development
VAMC, Boise ID
Senior Medical Director
Early Clinical Development
Covance Inc
Walnut Creek CA
Covance Inc
2121 N California Blvd Ste 500
Walnut Creek CA 94596
PH (925) 974-3743
FX (925) 974-3784
EMail rvestal@mindspring.com |
| Licensure: |
State of Idaho |
| Board Certification: |
Diplomat, National Board of Medical Examiners |
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Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine |
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Diplomat, Geriatric Medicine, American Board
of Internal Medicine |
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Diplomat (charter), American Board of Clinical
Pharmacology |
| 1967 |
BA Stanford University, Stanford CA |
| 1971 |
MD University of California, San Francisco CA |
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| 1996 |
Course: Concepts in Molecular Medicine, Department of
Veterans Affairs Course, San Francisco CA |
| 1995 |
Course: Clinical Pharmacology of Anticancer Drugs, Berlex
Oncology Foundation, Lansdowne VA |
| 1994 |
Workshop: Molecular Biology in Clinical Oncology
Workshop, American Association for Cancer Research, Aspen CO |
| 1994 |
Summer Workshop: New England Biolabs Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology Summer Workshop, Smith College, North Hampton MA |
| 1975-1977 |
Fellowship: Division of Clinical Pharmacology,
Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville TN |
| 1973-1975 |
Clinical Associate: Gerontology Research Center, Clinical
Physiology Branch, Metabolism Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of
Health, Baltimore MD |
| 1971-1972 |
Internship: Medicine, University of Colorado Medical
Center, Denver CO |
| 1969 |
Summer Research Fellowship: Effect of phenformin on
insulin release in man, UCSF Metabolic Research Unit, San Francisco CA (PF Forsham MD and
JH Karam MD) |
| 1968 |
Summer Research Fellowship: Organelle ratios in
experimental hearh hyperotrophy, UCSF Department of Pediatric, Electron Microscope
Laboratory, San Francisco CA (CF Piel MD and JR Goodman PhD) |
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Montamat SC, Olson RD, Mudumbi RV, Vestal RE: Age-related characterization
of atrial adenosine A1 receptor activation: direct effects on chronotropic and inotropic
function in the Fischer 344 rat. J Gerontol 51A:B239-B246, 1996. |
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Loi CM, Parker BM, Cusack BJ, Vestal RE: Aging and drug interactions III.
Individual and combined effects of cimetidine and ciprofloxacin on theophylline metabolism
in healthy, male and female nonsmokers. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 280:627-637, 1997. |
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Liu J, Spence MJ, Wallace PM, Forcier K, Aruffo A, Hellstrom I, Vestal RE:
Oncostatin M-specific receptor mediates inhibition of breast cancer cell growth,
antagonism of growth factors and down regulation of c-myc protooncogene. Cell Growth
Differ 8:667-676, 1997. |
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Spence MJ, Vestal RE, Liu J: Oncostatin M-mediated transcriptional
suppression of the c-myc gene in breast cancer cells. Cancer Res 57:2223-2228, 1997. |
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Vestal RE: Aging and pharmacology. Cancer 80:1302-1310, 1997. |
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Montamat SC, Cusack BJ, Vestal RE: Management of drug therapy in the
elderly. N Engl J Med 321:303-309, 1989. |
| Dr Vestal serves as a consultant to Research and Development at the VAMC
in Boise ID, where several projects on the molecular pharmacology of drug metabolism, drug
interactions, and cytokines in cancer biology and cancer chemoprevention are on-going. |
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