Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

T. Eoin West, MD, MPH, FCCP
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

OFFICE ADDRESS
Harborview Medical Center
Campus Box 359640
325 - 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104

tewest@u.washington.edu
Academic Office: (206) 897-5271
Fax: (206) 897-5392

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BS in Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1995

MD, Medical College of Virginia/VCU, Richmond, VA, 1999

Internship in Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, 1999-2000

Residency in Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2000-2002

Chief Medical Resident, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, and Boston VA Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA, 2002-2003

MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 2005

Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2003-2008

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research targets bacterial respiratory infections and, more generally, sepsis – major global killers that disproportionately impact poor populations worldwide. I am particularly interested in using translational methods to understand the importance of specific components of innate immunity in these diseases. I am also involved in studies of the epidemiology and clinical management of bacterial infections in resource-restricted regions.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
West TE, Pelletier MR, Majure MC, Lembo A, Hajjar AM, Skerrett SJ. Inhalation of Francisella novicida Delta mglA causes replicative infection that elicits innate and adaptive responses but is not protective against invasive pneumonic tularemia. Microbes Infect. 2008 Jun;10:773-80.

West TE, Ernst RK, Jansson-Hutson MJ, Skerrett SJ. Activation of Toll-like Receptors by Burkholderia pseudomallei. BMC Immunol. 2008 Aug 8;9:46.

Cheng AC, West TE, Limmathurotsakul D, Peacock SJ. Strategies to reduce mortality from bacterial sepsis in adults in developing countries. PLoS Med. 2008 Aug 19;5(8):e175.

Haraga A, West TE, Brittnacher MJ, Skerrett SJ, Miller SI. Burkholderia thailandensis as a model system for the study of the virulence-associated type III secretion system of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Infect Immun. 2008 Nov;76(11):5402-11.

West TE, Frevert CW, Liggitt HD, Skerrett SJ. Inhalation of Burkholderia thailandensis results in lethal necrotizing pneumonia in mice: a surrogate model for pneumonic melioidosis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Dec;102/S1:S119-S126.

Nickerson EK, West TE, Day NP, Peacock SJ. Staphylococcus aureus disease and drug resistance in resource-restricted countries in South and East Asia. Lancet Infect Dis. 2009 Feb;9(2):130-135.