Biography

To improve the imaging care of multiple injured patients through resident education and research. My current areas of interest include: traumatic aortic injury, blunt abdominal trauma, and the application of multi-row detector CT to trauma imaging.

Current Teaching Responsibilities:

Supervision and training of Radiology residents, fellows and Emergency Medicine residents during Emergency Radiology Day, Emergency Radiology Night, and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Radiology work schedules.

Fundamentals of Radiology lectures to first year radiology residents.

Formal Musculoskeletal and Trauma Radiology lectures to radiology residents. (Didactic)

Formal lectures to fourth-year medical students in Diagnostic Radiology rotation. (RAD4001)

Supervision of MS-1 Medical Student participant in the Summer Research Program.

Gross Anatomy lectures on “Radiology of the Upper Extremity” to first-year medical students for the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy.

Assembly of teaching resources in Emergency & Trauma and MSK Radiology.

Certifications

  • National Board of Medical Examiners Diplomat, March 1987
  • American Board of Radiology Diplomat, June 1992

Education

Medical Degree
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1986
Internship
Department of Internal Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, 1987
Junior Assistant Residency
Department of Internal Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, 1988
Residency
Diagnostic Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1992
Fellowship
Trauma Radiology, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992
Fellowship
Musculoskeletal Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1993
Postdoctoral Training
Advanced Grant Writing Course sponsored by the Radiological Society of North America Chicago, Illinois, 1998

Areas of Interest

Research Interests

**Faculty profiles will only highlight current information (the last three years).

Publications

**Faculty profiles will only highlight current information (the last three years). 

PUBLICATIONS:
All Presented by Dr. West Unless Otherwise Noted
*indicates student, resident, or fellow research directly supervised by Dr. West

Refereed Original Articles in Journals

  1. Incidence of cervical spine fractures on CT: a study in a large level I trauma center. Khanpara S, Ruiz-Pardo D, Spence SC, West OC, Riascos R. Emerg Radiol. 2020 Feb;27(1):1-8. doi: 10.1007/s10140-019-01717-9. Epub 2019 Aug 28.
  2. Accuracy of craniocervical measurements on CT for identifying partial or complete craniocervical ligament injuries in pediatric patients. Nicholas M Beckmann, Suresh K Cheekatla, Naga R. Chinapuvvula, Xu Zhang, O Clark West. Skeletal Radiol. 2020 Jul 21. Doi: 10.1007/s00256-020-03555-0. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32691127.
  3. Khanpara S, McCarty J, Schmitt K, Stark J, West OC, Zhang X, Riascos R. Atlanto-occipital Distraction Injuries in Survivors: Craniometrics and Associated Ligamentous, Spinal Cord, and Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury. Emergency Radiology. July 2020.

Presentations (National/International)

  1. A Better Way to Evaluate T- and L-Spine Injuries (SAM). National Diagnostic Imaging Symposium, Lake Buena Vista, FL. December 5-9, 2021.
  2. Avoiding Diagnostic Errors: Hip and Knee. National Diagnostic Imaging Symposium, Lake Buena Vista, FL. December 5-9, 2021.
  3. Avoiding Diagnostic Errors: Shoulder and Elbow. National Diagnostic Imaging Symposium, Lake Buena Vista, FL. December 5-9, 2021.

Other

  1. Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma, ASER-AUR Diagnostic Radiology Resident Core Curriculum Lecture Series (DR2C2LS). 2021