Clark D. West, MD
Title
Emeritus Physician
Appointment
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Credentials
MD: University of Michigan Medical School, 1943
Position History
1951-55 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
1955-62 Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
1962-89 Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
1989 Professor Emeritus
1951 Research Associate, Children's Hospital Research Foundation
1951-60 Director, Division of Physiology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation
1960-74 Director, Division of Immunology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation
1974-89 Director, Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation
1963-89 Associate Director, Children's Hospital Research Foundation
1952-89 Attending Pediatrician, Children's Hospital
1953-55 Assistant Attending Pediatrician, Cincinnati General Hospital
1955-89 Attending Pediatrician, Cincinnati General (University) Hospital
1952-89 Director of Nephrology Clinic, Children's Hospital Medical Center
1952-89 Director of Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Children's Hospital Medical Center
Awards and Honors
1940 Mateer Prize in Biology, College of Wooster
1947 Army Commendation Medal
1978 Listed: Who's Who in America
1980 Recognition Award, Cincinnati Pediatric Society
1986 Mitchell Rubin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Pediatric Nephrology (presented at the Children's Hospital of Buffalo - second recipient)
1995 Henry L. Barnett Award of the Nephrology Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics (presented at the AAP meeting, San Francisco, October 1995).
1996 Daniel C. Drake Medal, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. June 1996.
1996 John P. Peters Award of the American Society of Nephrology for outstanding contributions to Nephrology.
Publications, Most Recent
Strife, C.F., McAdams, A.J. and West, C.D.: Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis characterized by focal, segmental proliferative lesions. Clin. Nephrol. l8:9-l6, l982.
Marder, H.K., Coleman, T.H., Forristal, J., Beischel, L. and West, C.D.: An inherited defect in the C3 convertase, C3b, Bb, associated with glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int. 23:749-758, l983.
Coleman, T.H., Forristal, J., Kosaka, T. and West, C.D.: Inherited complement component deficiencies in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int. 24:68l-690, l983.
Waldo, F.B., Forristal, J., Beischel, L. and West, C.D.: A circulating inhibitor of fluid phase amplification C3 convertase formation in systemic lupus erythematosus. J. Clin. Invest. 75:l786-l795, l985.
McEnery, P.T., McAdams, A.J. and West, C.D.: The effect of a high dose alternate day prednisone regimen on the natural history of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. Medicine (Baltimore) 64:40l-424, l985.
West, C.D.: Nephrology Forum. Childhood membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis: An approach to management. Kidney Int. 29:l077-l093, l986.
Welch, T.R., Beischel, L., Balakrishnan, K., Quinlan, M. and West, C.D.: Major histocompatibility complex extended haplotypes in membranoproliferative glomerulo-nephritis. N. Engl. J. Med 3l4:l476-l48l, l986.
Jackson, E.C., McAdams, A.J., Strife, C.F., Forristal, J., Welch, T.R. and West, C.D.: Differences between membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis types I and III in clinical presentation, glomerular morphology and complement perturbation. Am. J. Kid. Dis. 9:ll5-l20, l987.
Strife, C.F., Leahy, A.E. and West, C.D.: Antibody to a cryptic solid phase Clq antigen in membranoproliferative nephritis. Kidney Int. 35:836-842, l989.
Clardy, C.W., Forristal, J., Strife, C.F. and West, C.D.: Serum terminal complement component levels in hypocomplementemic glomerulonephritides. Clin. Immunol. & Immunopathol. 50:307-320, l989.
Clardy, C.W., Forristal, J., Strife, C.F. and West, C.D.: A properdin dependent nephritic factor slowly activating C3, C5, and C9 in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, Types I and III. Clin. Immunol. & Immunopathol. 50:333-367, l989.
Varade, W.S., Forristal, J. and West, C.D.: Patterns of complement activation in idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. Am. J. Kid. Dis. 16:196-206, 1990.
West, C.D.: Idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis. (Invited Review) Pediatr. Nephrol. 6(1):96-103, 1992.
Pan, C.; Strife, C.F.; McAdams, A.J.; and West, C.D.: Activated C3(C3b) in the nephritic glomerulus. Pediatric Nephrology 7(4):379-386, 1993.
West C.D.; McAdams, A.J.; and Welch, T.R.: Glomerulonephritis in Henoch-Schoenlein purpura without mesangial IgA. Pediatr. Nephrol 8:677-683, 1994.
West, C.D.: Occasional hypothesis: Nephritic factors predispose to chronic glomerulonephritis. Am. J. Kid. Dis. 24:956-963, 1994.
West, C.D. and McAdams A.J.: Paramesangial glomerular deposits in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type II correlate with hypocomplementemia. Am. J. Kid. Dis. 25:853-861, 1995.
West, C.D. and McAdams, A.J.: Glomerular paramesangial deposits: Association with hypocomplementemia in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, types I and type III. Am. J. Kid. Dis. 31:427-434, 1998.
West, C.D. and McAdams, A.J.: Serum and glomerular IgG in poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis are correlated. Pediatr. Nephrol. 12:392-396, 1998.
West, C.D. and McAdams, A.J.: Membranoproliferative glomerulonehritis type III: Association of glomerular deposits with circulating nephritic factor-stabilized convertase. Am. J. Kid. Dis. 32:56-63, 1998.
West, C.D. and McAdams, A.J.: Glomerular deposits and hypoalbuminemia in acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis. Ped. Nephrol. 12:471-474, 1998.
West, C.D. and McAdams, A.J.: The alternative pathway C3 convertase and glomerular deposits (Invited Review)Pediatr. Nephrol. 13:448-453, 1999.
Braun, M.C., West, C.D. and Strife, C.F.: Differences between membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis types I and III in long term response to an alternate day prednisone regimen. Am J Kid Dis 34:1022-1032, 1999.
West, C.D. and McAdams, A.J.: Juvenile acute necrotizing glomerulitis (JANG): A cause of renal failure in childhood. Pediatr. Nephrol. 14:786-793, 2000.
West C.D., Witte D.P. and McAdams A.J.: Composition of Nephritic Factor-Generated Glomerular Deposits in Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis Type 2. Am J Kid Dis 37:1120-1130, 2001.
Professional Organization Memberships
- Phi Chi Medical Fraternity 1940-43
- Presiding Senior 1943
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 1943
- Society for Pediatric Research 1953
- Member of Council 1957-58
- Secretary-Treasurer 1958-62
- President-elect 1962-63
- President 1963-64
- American Physiological Society 1954
- American Pediatric Society 1960
- Midwestern Society for Pediatric Research 1961
- Trustee, Journal of Pediatrics Educational Foundation 1966-69
- American Association of Immunologists 1962
- American Society of Nephrology 1967
- American Society of Pediatric Nephrology 1968
- Member of Council 1970-72
- President-elect 1972-73
- President 1973-74
- International Study of Kidney Disease in Children-participant 1968-75
- International Pediatric Nephrology Association 1974-89
- General Clinical Research Center Committee, Division of Research Facilities and Resources, National Institutes of Health 1965-69
- Urology and Renal Disease Training Committee, National Institutes of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease, National Institutes of Health 1972-73
Related Areas
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