Frank A. Baciewicz, Jr., M.D.
Chenicheri Balakrishnan, M.D.
Ramesh Babu Batchu, Ph.D
Alfred Baylor, M.D.
Keiva L. Bland, M.D.
David L. Bouwman, M.D.
O.W. Brown, M.D.
Lawrence N. Diebel, M.D.
Heather Dolman, M.D.
David A. Edelman, M.D.
Ali Elhorr, M.D.
Mohamed Gazayerli, M.D.
Ruben Gomez, M.D.
David Gorski, M.D.
Kenneth Granke, M.D.
Scott Gruber, M.D.
Eti Gursel, M.D.
M. Salik Jahania, M.D.
Einas Joseph, M.D.
Mary Ann Kosir, M.D.
Scott Laker, M.D.
Anna M. Ledgerwood, M.D.
Charles E. Lucas, M.D.
Guillermina Nava, M.D.
Yevgeniy Rits, M.D.
Jeffrey Rubin, M.D.
Arlene A. Rozzelle, M.D.
Walter Salwen, M.D.
Vishwanath M. Sardesai, Ph.D.
Allen Silbergleit, M.D., Ph.D.
Yvan Silva, M.D.
Christopher Steffes, M.D.
Larry W. Stephenson, M.D.
Choichi Sugawa, M.D.
Steven D. Tennenberg, M.D.
James G. Tyburski, M.D.
Donald W. Weaver, M.D.
John D. Webber, M.D.
Matthew Weiner, M.D.
Miguel S. West, M.D.
Michael T. White, M.D.
Robert F. Wilson, M.D.

Title:
Associate Professor of Surgery
Wayne State University School of Medicine

Office Address:
3990 John R Ste. 400
Detroit, MI 48201

Phone:
313-745-7318

Fax:
313-993-0595

Email:


Specialty:
Transplant, Dialysis Access, General Surgery

Clinical Interest:
Kidney, pancreas, liver transplantation

Research Interest:
Organ transplantation, allograft rejection; immunosuppression and immunology.

Board Certification:
Surgery

Education:
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI
1978 - 1982, M.D.

Training:
University of Illinois at Chicago, IL. General Surgery, Residency, 1982-1983
Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.- General Surgery Residency, 1984-1986
Mount Sinai Hospital/The Chicago Medical School- General Surgery Residency, 1986-1990
Fellowship in Transplantation and Immunology, University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics, 1995-1997
Postdoctorate Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics, January 1997 - August 1997

Selected Publications:
West M, Gruessner AC, Metrakos P, Sutherland DER, Gruessner RWG: Conversion from bladder to enteric drainage after pancreaticoduodenal transplantations. Surgery 124: 883-893, 1998.

West M, Pirenne J, Chavers B, Gillingham K, Sutherland DER, Dunn DL, Matas AJ: Clostridium difficile colitis after kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation. Clinical Transplantation 13: 318-333, 1999.

Callender CO, West M: Implications of medicare reimbursement for kidney/pancreas and pancreas transplantation. Contemporary Dialysis & Nephrology 20 (8): 20-22, 1999.

West M, Zhang K, Gohman K, Gruessner AC, Troppmann C, Gruessner RWG: Prolonged functional survival of discordant xenoislet transplants using leflunomide (MNA 279), cyclosporin A, and rabbit anti-rat lymphocyte serum (submitted)

West M, Zhang K, Gruessner AC, Troppman C, Gruessner RWG: Prolonged functional survival of discordant xenoislet transplants using 15-deoxyspergualin and mycophenolate mofetil (submitted)