O. Clark West, MD

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