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Constance E. West, MD

Title

Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology

Appointment

Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Email

constance.west@cchmc.org

Phone

513-636-4751

Fax

513-636-7911

Credentials

MD: University of Massachusetts Medical School, NorthWorcester, MA, 1986

Transitional Internship: St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, MO. 1987

Ophthalmology Residency: Barnes Hospital, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri 1990

Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Fellowship: Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 1991

Awards and Honors

Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Special Recognition Award, 2008
Best Doctors in America, 2008
Selected by peers for "Best Doctors in America" publication, 1996-2007
Awarded "2005 Best Doctors"
Cincinnati Family Magazine, Customer Appreciation Award for Outstanding Service, 2004
Awarded "2004 Best Doctors"
Martin Luther King Recognition Award, 2004.
American Academy of Ophthalmology, Certificate of Appreciation, 2004.
Cincinnati Family Magazine, Customer Appreciation Award for Outstanding Service, 2004.
Health Care Heroes, Provider, Cincinnati 2003
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus - Honor Award, 2002
Mead Johnson Award for Excellence in Teaching, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2001
American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award, 2000
University of Cincinnati Ophthalmology Chief Residents Teaching Award, 2000
Outstanding Young Women of America, 1997
Letter of Commendation, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center CME Committee, 1997
American Medical Women's Association/Janet M. Glasgow - Memorial Achievement Citation
Hewlett-Packard Top Medical Graduate Award
University of Massachusetts Medical School Alumni Scholarship

Research

Optic pathway glioma in children – a review of one institution’s experience.

Retinal hemorrhages in Shaken Baby Syndrome. Photodocumentation, correlates with neuroimaging and outcome.

Construction of a portable optics bench for use in teaching ophthalmic optics and refraction to ophthalmology residents.

Publications, Most Recent

Qu J, Zhou X, Zhang J, Zhao F, Sun YH, Tong Y, Wei QP, Cai W, Yang L, West CE. Extremely low penetrance of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy in 8 Han Chinese families carrying the ND4 G11778A mutation.Ophthalmology 2009;116:558-564 e3. Epub 2009 Jan 22

Bollinger KE, Kattouf V, Arthur B, Weiss AH, Kivlin J, Kerr N, West CE, Kipp M, Traboulsi EI. Hypermetropia and esotropia in myotonic dystrophy. J AAPOS 2008; 12:69-71.

Li R, Qu J, Zhou X, Tong Y, Hu Y, Qian Y Lu F, Mo JQ, West CE, Guan MX. The mitochondrial tRNA^Thr A15951G mutation may influence the phenotypic expression of the LHON-associated ND4 G11778A mutation in a Chinese family. Gene 2006, 376:79-86.

Qu J, Li R, Zhou X, Tong Y, Lu F, Qian Y, Hu Y, Mo JQ, West CE, Guan M-X. The Novel A4435G Mutation in the Mitochondrial tRNAMet May Modulate the Phenotypic Expression of the LHON-Associated ND4 G11778A Mutation.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 2006; 47: 475-483.

Professional Organization Memberships

Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology

Fellow of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Women in Ophthalmology

The International Society for Genetic Eye Disease

Ohio Ophthalmologic Association

Cincinnati Pediatric Society

Cincinnati Society of Ophthalmology

Books

Published Book Chapters

West CE. Fine KS, Marino BS. Ophthalmology. In: Marino BS, Fine KS, 5th ed. Blueprints Pediatrics. Baltimore, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009, p 280-286

West CE. Refractive Error in Children. In: Wilson ME, Saunders RA, Trivedi, RH, Pediatric Ophthalmology,Springer-Verlag, 2009, p. 7-20.

West CE. Strabismus. In: Vaughan & Asbury’s General Ophthalmology, Seventeenth Edition, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2008, p. 229-248.