MichaelaAWestMD(She/Her)

PubMed

• 1517 citations
  Oncogenic pathway signatures in human cancers as a guide to targeted therapies.
  Andrea Bild, Guang Yao, Jeffrey T. Chang, Quanli Wang, Anil Potti
  Nature. 2006-01-19
• 114 citations
  Penetrating esophageal injuries: multicenter study of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
  Juan A. Asensio, Santiago Chahwan, Walter Forno, Robert C. Mackersie, Wall M
  The Journal of Trauma. 1999-07-01
• 81 citations
  Levofloxacin compared with imipenem/cilastatin followed by ciprofloxacin in adult patients with nosocomial pneumonia: A multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-labe...
  Mike West, Bernard R. Boulanger, Charles Fogarty, Alan M. Tennenberg, Barbara A. Wiesinger
  Clinical Therapeutics. 2003-02-01

Journal Articles

• The impact of hospital and ICU organizational factors on outcome in critically ill patients: results from the Extended Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care study  
  Sakr Y1, Moreira CL, Rhodes A, Ferguson ND, Kleinpell R, Pickkers P, Kuiper MA, Lipman J, Vincent JL; Extended Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care Study Investig..., Crit Care Med, 1/1/2015
• Infections and use of antibiotics in patients admitted for severe acute pancreatitis: data from the EPIC II study  
  De Waele JJ, Rello J, Anzueto A, Moreno R, Lipman J, Sakr Y, Pickkers P, Leone M, Ferguson A, Oud L, Vincent JL; EPIC II Investigators (West M), Surg Infect (Larchmt), 1/1/2014
• Impact of infection on the prognosis of critically ill cirrhotic patients: results from a large worldwide study  
  Gustot T, Felleiter P, Pickkers P, Sakr Y, Rello J, Velissaris D, Pierrakos C, Taccone FS, Sevcik P, Moreno C, Vincent JL; EPIC II Investigators (West M), Liver Int, 1/1/2014
• Benchmarking outcomes in the critically injured burn patient  
  Klein MB, Goverman J, Hayden DL, Fagan SP, McDonald-Smith GP, Alexander AK, Gamelli RL, Gibran NS, Finnerty CC, Jeschke MG, Arnoldo B, Wispelwey B, Mindrinos MN, Xiao ..., Ann Surg, 1/1/2014
• Comparing clinical predictors of deep venous thrombosis versus pulmonary embolus after severe injury: a new paradigm for posttraumatic venous thromboembolism?  
  Brakenridge SC, Henley SS, Kashner TM, Golden RM, Paik DH, Phelan HA, Cohen MJ, Sperry JL, Moore EE, Minei JP, Maier RV, Cuschieri J; Inflammation and the Host Respons..., J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2013
• Development of a genomic metric that can be rapidly used to predict clinical outcome in severely injured trauma patients  
  Cuenca AG, Gentile LF, Lopez MC, Ungaro R, Liu H, Xiao W, Seok J, Mindrinos MN, Ang D, Baslanti TO, Bihorac A, Efron PA, Cuschieri J, Warren HS, Tompkins RG, Maier RV,..., Crit Care Med, 1/1/2013
• Determination of burn patient outcome by large-scale quantitative discovery proteomics  
  Finnerty CC, Jeschke MG, Qian WJ, Kaushal A, Xiao W, Liu T, Gritsenko MA, Moore RJ, Camp DG 2nd, Moldawer LL, Elson C, Schoenfeld D, Gamelli R, Gibran N, Klein M, Arno..., Crit Care Med, 1/1/2013
• Goal Directed Resuscitation in the Prehospital Setting: A Propensity Adjusted Analysis  
  Brown JB, Cohen MJ, Minei JP, Maier RV, West MA, Billiar TR, Peitzman AB, Moore EE, Cuschieri J, Sperry JL, The Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Investigators, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2013
• Critically ill elderly adults with infection: analysis of the extended prevalence of infection in intensive care study  
  Dimopoulos G, Koulenti D, Blot S, Sakr Y, Anzueto A, Spies C, Violán JS, Kett D, Armaganidis A, Martin C, Vincent JL; Extended Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Car..., J Am Geriatr Soc, 1/1/2013
• Changes in massive transfusion over time: An early shift in the right direction?  
  Kautza BC, Cohen MJ, Cuschieri J, Minei JP, Brackenridge SC, Maier RV, Harbrecht BG, Moore EE, Billiar TR, Peitzman AB, Sperry JL, The Inflammation and the Host Respon..., J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2012
• Debunking the survival bias myth: Characterization of mortality during the initial 24 hours for patients requiring massive transfusion  
  Brown JB, Cohen MJ, Minei JP, Maier RV, West MA, Billiar TR, Peitzman AB, Moore EE, Cushieri J, Sperry JL; The Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Investigators, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 1/1/2012
• Body Adipose Content is Independently Associated With a Higher Risk of Organ Failure and Nosocomial Infection in the Non-obese Patient Postinjury  
  Edmonds RD, Cuschieri J, Minei JP, Rosengart MR, Maier RV, Harbrecht BG, Billiar TR, Peitzman AB, Moore EE, Sperry JL; The Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury..., J Trauma, 1/1/2011
• Human transcriptome array for high-throughput clinical studies  
  Xu W, Seok J, Mindrinos MN, Schweitzer AC, Jiang H, Wilhelmy J, Clark TA, Kapur K, Xing Y, Faham M, Storey JD, Moldawer LL, Maier RV, Tompkins RG, Wong WH, Davis RW, X..., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 1/1/2011
• Western Trauma Association/Critical Decisions in Trauma: Operative Management of Adult Blunt Hepatic Trauma  
  Kozar RA, Feliciano DV, Moore EE, Moore FA, Cocanour CS, West MA, Davis JW, McIntyre RC Jr, J Trauma, 1/1/2011
• Early Blood Product and Crystalloid Volume Resuscitation: Risk Association With Multiple Organ Dysfunction After Severe Blunt Traumatic Injury  
  Brakenridge SC, Phelan HA, Henley SS, Golden RM, Kashner TM, Eastman AE, Sperry JL, Harbrecht BG, Moore EE, Cuschieri J, Maier RV, Minei JP; Inflammation and Host Resp..., J Trauma, 1/1/2011
• Dissecting inflammatory complications in critically injured patients by within-patient gene expression changes: a longitudinal clinical genomics study  
  Desai KH, Tan CS, Leek JT, Maier RV, Tompkins RG, Storey JD; and the Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Large-Scale Collaborative Research Program (West MA), PLoS Med, 1/1/2011
• Trauma  
  West MA, Curr Opin Crit Care, 1/1/2011
• Clinical microfluidics for neutrophil genomics and proteomics  
  Kotz KT, Xiao W, Miller-Graziano C, Qian WJ, Russom A, Warner EA, Moldawer LL, De A, Bankey PE, Petritis BO, Camp DG 2nd, Rosenbach AE, Goverman J, Fagan SP, Brownstei..., Nat Med, 1/1/2010
• Plasma proteome response to severe burn injury revealed by 18O-labeled "universal" reference-based quantitative proteomics  
  Qian WJ, Petritis BO, Kaushal A, Finnerty CC, Jeschke MG, Monroe ME, Moore RJ, Schepmoes AA, Xiao W, Moldawer LL, Davis RW, Tompkins RG, Herndon DN, Camp DG 2nd, Smith..., J Proteome Res, 1/1/2010
• Early elevation in random plasma IL-6 after severe injury is associated with development of organ failure  
  Cuschieri J, Bulger E, Schaeffer V, Sakr S, Nathens AB, Hennessy L, Minei J, Moore EE, O'Keefe G, Sperry J, Remick D, Tompkins R, Maier RV; The Inflammation and the Ho..., Shock, 1/1/2010
• Identification and interpretation of longitudinal gene expression changes in trauma  
  Rajicic N, Cuschieri J, Finkelstein DM, Miller-Graziano CL, Hayden D, Moldawer LL, Moore E, O'Keefe G, Pelik K, Warren HS, Schoenfeld DA, The Inflammation and the Host..., PLoS One, 1/1/2010
• Characterization of persistent hyperglycemia: what does it mean post injury?  
  Sperry JL, Frankel HL, Nathens AB, O'keefe GE, Cuschieri J, Moore EE, Maier RV, Minei JP; Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Collaborative Research Program (..., J Trauma, 1/1/2009
• Assessing statistical significance in microarray experiments using the distance between microarrays  
  Hayden D, Lazar P, Schoenfeld D, and Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Collaborative Research Program (West MA), PLoS One, 1/1/2009
• A genomic score prognostic for outcome in trauma patients  
  Warren HS, Elson C, Hayden D, Schoenfeld D, Cobb JP, Maier RV, Moldawer LL, Moore EE, Harbrecht BG, Pelak K, Cuschieri J, Herndon DM, Jeschke M, Finnerty C, Brownstein..., Mol Med, 1/1/2009
• Fresh frozen plasma is independently associated with a higher risk of multiple organ failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome  
  Watson GA, Sperry JL, Rosengart MR, Minei JP, Ochoa JB, Gunn SR, Alarcon LH, Cuschieri J, Maier RV, Billiar TR, Peitzman AB, The Inflammation and the Host Response to ..., J Trauma, 1/1/2009
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Books/Book Chapters

• Trauma 
  Chapter: Infections 
  Page 330.0 - 354.0West MA, Yeh DDEditors: Mattox KL, Moore EE , Feliciano DV.McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New YorkEdition 7th,2013
• Trauma 
  Chapter: Commentary on: Faist E, Trentzsch H, Chapter 67, The immune response 
  Page 1357. - 1358.West MAEditors: Feliciano DV, Mattox KL, Moore EE.McGraw Hill, New YorkEdition 6th,2008
• Contemporary Guide to Surgical Infections 
  West MAEditors: West MA.Handbooks in Health Care Co, Newtown, PA2008
• Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence 
  Chapter: Intra-abdominal infections 
  West MA, Shapiro MBEditors: Norton JA, Lowry SF, Mulvihill SJ, Thompson RW.Springer, New York2007
• Infections in Surgical Intensive Care Medicine and 30 years of Research on Organ Failure and Organ Protection 
  Chapter: In vitro modeling of liver function in sepsis: Lessons for surgical researchers 
  Page 45.0 - 56.0West MAEditors: Wang JE, Smiseth OA.Institute for Surgical Research, Oslo, Norway2006
• Northwestern Handbook of Surgical Procedures 
  Chapter: Major hepatic lacerations: Open repair 
  Page 29.0 - 33.0West MAEditors: Bell RH, Kaufman DB.Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX2005
• Northwestern Handbook of Surgical Procedures 
  Chapter: Splenorraphy: Open 
  Page 76.0 - 78.0West MAEditors: Bell RH, Kaufman DB.Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX2005
• Northwestern Handbook of Surgical Procedures 
  Chapter: Exploratory laparotomy: Open 
  Page 133.0 - 136.0West MAEditors: Bell RH, Kaufman DB.Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX2005
• Trauma 
  Chapter: Commentary on: Faist E, Angele M, Wichman M: The immune system 
  Page 1935. - 1946.West MAEditors: Moore EE, Feliciano DV, Mattox KL.McGraw Hill, New YorkEdition 5th,2004
• Current Surgical Therapy 
  Chapter: Preoperative assessment of the elderly patient 
  Page 1091. - 1095.Shapiro MB, West MAEditors: Cameron J.Elsevier Science, Philadelphia, PAEdition 8th,2004
• Surgical Infection and Antibiotics 
  Chapter: MSRA and VRE: The new superbugs 
  Page 23.0 - 26.0West MAEditors: Christou NV.American College of Surgeons, Chicago2003
• Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction: A multidisciplinary approach 
  Chapter: Pathophysiology of Septic Shock 
  Page 53.0 - 62.0Wright B, West MAEditors: Deitch EA, Vincent JL, Windsor A.Harcourt Health Services, London2002
• Source Control: A Guide to the Management of Surgical Infections 
  Chapter: Stomach and Small Intestine 
  Page 93.0 - 99.0Danielson D, West MAEditors: Schein M, Marshall JC.Springer Verlag, New York2002
• Trends in Vascular Surgery 
  Chapter: Venous thromboembolism in vascular injury 
  Page 439.0 - 446.0West MAEditors: Pearce WH, Yao JST, Matsumura JS.Precept Press, Chicago2002
• The Practice of General Surgery 
  Chapter: Aspiration pneumonia 
  Page 242.0 - 246.0Wright B, West MAEditors: Bland KI.Harcourt Health Services, Chicago2001
• Principles of Surgery 
  Chapter: Intrabdominal infection 
  Page 1515. - 1550.Solomkin JB, Wittman DW, West MA, Barrie PSEditors: Schwartz SI, Shires TG, Spencer FA, Daly JM, Fisher JE, Galloway AC.McGraw Hill, New YorkEdition 7th,1998
• Pre- and postoperative care: Management of infection in the surgical patient 
  Chapter: Which infections are suitable for outpatient treatment? 
  Page 37.0 - 39.0West MAEditors: Rotstein OD.American College of Surgeons, Chicago1998
• The Immune Consequences of Trauma, Shock and Sepsis: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications 
  Chapter: Macrophage endotoxin tolerance in sepsis and trauma: Effect of endotoxin pretreatment versus hypoxic preexposure on macrophage mediator release 
  Page 146.0 - 152.0West MA, Seatter SC, Li MH, Bubrick MPEditors: Faist E, Baue AE, Schildberg FW.Pabst Science Publishers, Legenreich1996
• Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Critical Care Review 
  Chapter: Urologic and Orthopedic Injuries 
  Page 221.0 - 230.0West MAEditors: Zaloga GP, Zimmerman JL.Society of Critical Care Medicine, Anaheim1996
• Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Critical Care Review 
  Chapter: Intra-abdominal infections 
  Page 287.0 - 298.0West MAEditors: Zaloga GP, Zimmerman JL.Society of Critical Care Medicine, Anaheim1996
• Self-Assessment in Multidisciplinary Critical Care: A Comprehensive Review, Volume 4 
  Chapter: Surgery/ Anesthesiology 
  West MA, Metzler MH, Troop BREditors: Taylor RW, Zimmerman JL, Dellinger RP.Society of Critical Care Medicine, Anaheim1996
• Self-Assessment in Multidisciplinary Critical Care: A Comprehensive Review, Volume 4 
  Chapter: Trauma/ Environmental Injury 
  West MA, Metzler MH, Troop BREditors: Taylor RW, Zimmerman JL, Dellinger RP.Society of Critical Care Medicine, Anaheim1996
• Tratado de Quemaduras (Treatment of Burns) 
  Chapter: Terapia topica (Topical therpay) 
  Page 341.0 - 351.0West MA, Monafo WWEditors: Bendlin A, Linares H, Benaim F.McGraw Hill Interamerica, Mexico City1993
• Hepatocyte and Kupffer Cell Interactions 
  Chapter: Regulation of Kupffer cell activation 
  Page 209.0 - 242.0West MA, Heaney MLEditors: Billiar TR and Curran RD.CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL1992
• Cytokines in Critical Illness, Report of the Eleventh Ross Conference on Medical Research 
  Chapter: Cytokines and Fixed Inflammatory Cells 
  Page 26.0 - 32.0West MAEditors: Roche AF.Ross Laboratories, Columbus, OH1992
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Abstracts/Posters

• Adaptive and maladaptive “tolerant" responses: Heat shock and endotoxin pretreatment of murine macrophages
  Nieman K, Hansen CJ, Heagy W, Rodriguez JL, West MA, 20th Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Providence, RI, 1/28/2000
• Flow cytometry for analysis of intracellular signal transduction pathways in the human response to endotoxin
  Heagy W, Nieman K, Rodriguez JL, West MA, American Association for Immunology, Seattle, WA, 1/1/2000
• Preliminary analysis of a phase IIA randomized, double blind multicenter study of MK-826 1 gm dose to treat complicated intraabdominal infections
  Hesseltine P, Yellin A, Fernandez A, Hassett J, Malafia O, Lucasti C, Jiang Q, Overbye K, Rosen H, Geib J, Teppler H, (MK-0826 Protocol 004 Study Group), ICAAC, 1/1/1999
• Demographics, risk factors and long term outcome after snowmobile accidents
  Dittrich KP, Ney AL, Jacobs DM, Rodriguez JL, West MA, Maryland Trauma Society, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/1996
• Experience with the scalp donor site for split thickness skin grafts
  Peltier G, Julsrud J, Brunner M, Poppe S, Twomey J, West MA, American Burn Association, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/1991
• Burns in health care centers
  Peltier G, Brunner M, Poppe S, Twomey J, West MA, American Burn Association, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/1990
• Interactions between macrophages/ Kupffer cells and hepatocytes in surgical sepsis
  West MA, Dissertation Abstracts International, 1/1/1989
• Toxic L-arginine metabolites produced by endotoxinactivated Kupffer cells induce hepatocyte death
  Billiar TR, Curran RD, West MA, Simmons RL, Surgical Infection Society, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/1989
• A standardized system for general surgery antibiotic prophylaxis at a large, private teaching hospital- A multidisciplinary approach
  Casebar E, Gray JL, West MA, Medoff GR, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Atlanta, GA, 1/1/1989
• Diets high in fish oil result in suppressed prostanoid production while preserving IL-1 release in response to endotoxin
  Billiar TR, Svingen B, West MA, Bankey PE, Simmons RL, Cerra FB, Society of University Surgeons, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/1988
• Endotoxin activated Kupffer cells utilize an arginine dependent mechanism to suppress hepatocyte protein synthesis
  Billiar TR, Curran RD, West MA, Bentz B, Simmons RL, FASEB J, 1/1/1988
• Murine monoclonal antibody to lipopolysaccharide inhibits Kupffer cell activation by endotoxin in vitro
  Billiar TR, West MA, Hyland BJ, Simmons RL, Dunn D, Circ. Shock, 1/1/1987
• Hepatocytes influence Kupffer cell prostaglandin E2 production
  Billiar TR, West MA, Jordan ML, Carlson AM, Hyland BJ, Simmons RL, J. Leuk. Biol., 1/1/1987
• Enhanced release of IL-1 like activity in hepatocyte: macrophage coculture
  Mazuski JE, West MA, Towle HC, Simmons RL, Cerra FB, American College of Surgeons, Forum on Fundamental Problems in Surgery, New Orleans, LA, 1/1/1987
• The role of intestinal flora in maintaining and modulating Kupffer cell population and function
  Billiar TR, Maddaus MA, West MA, Dunn DL, Hyland BJ, Bergen TA, Simmons RL, Association of Academic Surgeons, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/1987
• Pretreatment peptidoglycan dose- and re-challenge TLR stimulus-dependent reprogramming of RAW264.7 macrophage TNF release
  Koons A, West MA, J Leuk Biol, Joint Society for Leukocyte Biology and the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society, San Antonio, TX, 1/10/2006
• Endotoxin tolerance in sepsis: Concentration dependent augmentation or inhibition of LPS-stimulated macrophage TNF secretion by LPS pretreatment
  West MA, Koons A, 20th Annual Meeting of Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma, Sanibel, FL, 1/18/2007
• Even Ephemeral Endotoxin Exposure Establishes Endotoxin Tolerance
  Koons A, Crandall M, An GC, Shaprio MB, Kramer S, West MA, 36th Annual Meeting of the Western Trauma Association, Steamboat Springs, CO, 1/28/2007
• Differential effect of pretreatement with bacterial peptidoglycan and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on LPS-stimulated macrophage cytokine release
  Koons A, An G, West MA, Inflammation Research, 7th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis-Interdisciplinary Summit on Inflammation-(TSIS 2007), Munich, Germany, 1/13/2007
• Same day appendectomy for acute appendicitis?
  Crandall M, Worley MA, Shapiro MB, West MA, Surgical Infections, 27th Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1/19/2007
• Dissociation between macrophage altered MAPK signaling and cytokine production in LPS- or PDG-tolerance
  West MA, Koons A, Surgical Infections, 27th Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1/19/2007
• Male gender is associated with excessive IL-6 expression following injury
  Sperry JL, Friese RS, Frankel HL, West MA, Cuschieri J, Moore EE, Harbrecht BG, Maier RV, Minei JP, 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Las Vegas, NV, 1/28/2007
• Critical illness as ecological collapse: Modeling the impact of stress, ischemia, and therapy on host-bacterial ecology in the gut
  An G, Shapiro M, Crandall M, Issa N, West MA, Surgical Infections, 21st Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society-Europe, Antalya, Turkey, 1/1./2008
• Bi-directional modulation of macrophage TNF secretion bY supernatant mediators induced by LPS pretreatment
  Koons A, Kramer S, West MA, Surgical Infections, 21st Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society-Europe, Antalya, Turkey, 1/1./2008
• Critical illness as ecological collapse: Modeling the impact of stress, ischemia, and therapy on host-bacterial ecology in the gut
  An G, Shapiro M, Crandall M, Issa N, West MA, Surgical Infections, 28th Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, Hilton Head, NC, 1/8./2008
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Other

• Report: Improving heath system preparedness for terrorism and mass casualty events 
  AMA/APHA Linkages Leadership (West MA), American Medical Association
  www.amaassn.org/go/disasterpreparedeness
  1/1/2007
• Beware of AIDS in bed, not in doctors' offices (Commentary) 
  West MA, Star Tribune Newspaper
  1/23/1991