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Surgery
Otolaryngology / Head and Neck
Department Affiliation:
Head and Neck Surgery
Hospital Affiliation:
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
State License:
A117297
Phone:
(310) 206-6688
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About Me

Academic Staff Appointments

  • Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Professional Memberships

  • American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  • American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
  • American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy
  • American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology

Dr. West is a fellowship trained pediatric Head and Neck Surgeon. She is the director of the new Pediatric Airway Center at UCLA, which is one of the only multi-disciplinary centers in the country focusing on speech, swallowing, and breathing disorders. Her clinical interests are pediatric airway reconstruction, swallowing disorders, speech dysfunction, sinus disease, head and neck tumors, and hearing loss. She is a faculty member of the craniofacial team at UCLA, and travels abroad semiannually with charitable foundations to operate on children without health care. Dr. West completed her fellowship at the University of North Carolina, one of the leaders in hearing loss research and cochlear implantation. She brings that experience and expertise with her to UCLA where her core research is investigating auditory neuropathy and congenital deafness. In addition to the list of clinical interests above, Dr. West is currently offering minimally invasive sinuplasty for pediatric patients suffering from sinus disease.

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http://headandnecksurgery.ucla.edu
Primary Office
Head & Neck Surgery
200 UCLA Medical Plaza
Suite 550
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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(310) 206-6688
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(310) 825-2810
Medical Board Certifications
Otolaryngology, American Board of Otolaryngology, 2012
Fellowship
Pediatric Otolaryngology, University of North Carolina Hospitals, 2010-2011
Residency
Otolaryngology, University of North Carolina Hospitals, 2006-2010
Internship
Otolaryngology, University of North Carolina Hospitals, 2005-2006
Degree
UC San Diego School of Medicine, MD, 2005
Interests
  • Airway Disorders
  • Allergy Testing

    Diagnostic Tests for Allergies

    The most common tests for allergy are: IgE (immunoglobulin E) skin tests. These are the most common allergy tests. Skin tests for allergies measure IgE antibodies to specific allergens; Blood tests for allergies also measure IgE antibodies to specific allergens in the blood. The testing that is most commonly used is called RAST (radioallergosorbent test); Challenge test. This test is always supervised by an allergist. A person eats or inhales a very small amount of an allergen and is closely monitored for an allergic reaction.
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  • Coblation (Tonsillectomy)
  • Cochlear Implant

    Cochlear Implant Surgery

    If a person has severe hearing loss, a cochlear implant may help. A cochlear implant is different from a hearing aid. A hearing aid makes sounds louder and helps someone who has some hearing loss. But a cochlear implant can help a person with very little or no hearing (partial or complete deafness).
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  • Laser
  • Pediatric Ear Problems
  • Pediatrics
  • Sinusitis

    Sinusitis

    Sinusitis is an infection of the lining of the sinuses near the nose. If mucus drainage is blocked, bacteria may start to grow. This leads to a sinus infection, or sinusitis. The most common viruses and bacteria that cause sinusitis also cause the flu or certain kinds of pneumonia.
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  • Swallowing disorders
  • Voice Disorders

    Voice Disorders

    A voice disorder is when a person has a problem with pitch, volume, tone, and other qualities of their voice. These problems occur when the vocal cords don't vibrate normally.
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Research Interests
Pediatric Hearing Loss; Allergy
Publications
  • Advances in Endoscopic Resection of Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma, West AN, Zanation AM. Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
  • Pediatric Neck Trauma, West AN, Drake AF. Oroaxillofacial Surgery.
  • Eotaxin: A target for Chronic Rhinosinusitis. West, AN, Senior BA.
  • Compression plating of mandibular angle fractures. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005 Feb;131(2):170-1. Moe KS, West AN.
  • Anterograde amnesia and temporally graded retrograde amnesia for a nonspatial memory task after lesions of hippocampus and subiculum. Clark RE, Broadbent NJ, Zola SM, Squire LR, West AN. J Neurosci. 2002 Jun 1;22(11):4663-9.
  • Improving education under work-hour restrictions: comparing learning and teaching preferences of faculty, residents, and students.Jack MC, Kenkare SB,Saville BR, Beidler SK, Saba SC, West AN, Hanemann MS, van Aalst JA. J Surg Educ. 2010 Sep-Oct;67(5):290-6
Awards
  • ROAD scholarship Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy 2006, 2007, and 2008
  • Selma Silagi Award for Scientific Excellence and Researcher of the Year University of California, San Diego
  • Summa Cum Laude
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society
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