Barbara Westerhaus, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
Medical Director, J. Edwin Wood Practice
PAH, UPHS
Section Chief of the Department of General Internal Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital
Department: Medicine
Contact information
J. Edwin Wood Practice
700 Spruce St, Ste 304
Philadelphia, PA 19106
700 Spruce St, Ste 304
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Office: 215-829-3521
Education:
BS (Biochemistry)
University of Chicago, 2006.
BA (Chemistry)
University of Chicago, 2006.
MD
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2011.
Permanent linkBS (Biochemistry)
University of Chicago, 2006.
BA (Chemistry)
University of Chicago, 2006.
MD
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2011.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Substance Use Treatment within Primary CareSelected Publications
Westerhaus B, Gosmanov AR, Umpierrez GE: Diabetes Prevention: Can Insulin Secretagogues Do the Job? Primary Care Diabetes 5(2): 73-80, Jul 2011.Westerhaus B, Klein R: Hyponatremia: Does the Diagnosis Matter? Clinical vignette poster presentation presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the ACP, Atlanta, GA Apr 2010.
Edelson, DP, Litzinger B, Arora V, Walsh D, et al: Improving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Precess and Outcomes with Performance Debriefing. Archives of Internal Medicine 168(10): 1063-69, 2008.
Litzinger B, Guo R and Cunningham PN: The role of superoxide dismutase 1 in endotoxin-induced acute renal failure. Chicago Biological Investigator Page: 39-42, 2006.