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   <name>Gloria Elaine B. Westney, MD, MSCR, FCCP, ATSF</name>
   <title>Professor</title>
   <department>Pulmonary &amp; Critical Care Medicine</department>
   <title2></title2>
   <department2></department2>
   <email>gwestney@msm.edu</email>
   <phone>(404)616-9538</phone>
   <location>Grady Hospital, Suite 1C</location>
   <education>
      <p><strong>POSTGRADUATE:</strong><br></br>Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems: R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma
         Center<br></br><strong>Fellowship:</strong> Critical Care Medicine<strong><br></br></strong><br></br>University of Toronto, Department of Respirology<br></br><strong>Fellowship:</strong> Lung Cell Biology and Lung Transplantation<br></br><br></br>Howard University Hospital<br></br><strong>Fellowship:</strong> Pulmonary Medicine and Internal Medicine<br></br><br></br><span>Howard University Hospital<br></br><strong>Residency</strong>: Internal Medicine</span></p>
      <p><strong><br></br>MEDICAL SCHOOL:</strong><br></br>University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky<br></br><strong>Degree: </strong>Doctor of Medicine<br></br><br></br><strong>GRADUATE: <br></br></strong>Morehouse School of Medicine<br></br><strong>Degree:</strong> Masters of Science in Clinical Research </p>
   </education>
   <clinicalinterests>
      <ul>
         <li><span>Sarcoidosis</span></li>
         <li><span>Interstitial Lung Diseases</span></li>
         <li><span>COPD and Asthma</span></li>
         <li><span>Obesity-Related Pulmonary Illnesses</span></li>
      </ul>
   </clinicalinterests>
   <specialties>
      <ul>
         <li><span>Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine</span></li>
      </ul>
   </specialties>
   <research>
      <ul>
         <li><span>Sarcoidosis Disease Severity in African Americans</span></li>
         <li><span>Interstitial Lung Disease in Minority Populations</span></li>
      </ul>
   </research>
   <boardcerts>
      <ul>
         <li><span>Pulmonary Medicine</span></li>
         <li><span>Critical Care Medicine</span></li>
      </ul>
   </boardcerts>
   <publications>
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            <ul>
               <li>Occhipinti M, Paoletti M, Parekh T, Pistolesi M, Pratte KA, Putcha N, Ragland M, Reinhardt
                  JM, Rennard SI, Rosiello RA, Ross JC, Rossiter HB, Ruczinski I, San Jose Estepar R,
                  Sciurba FC, Sieren JC, Singh H, Soler X, Steiner RM, Strand MJ, Stringer WW, Tal-Singer
                  R, Thomashow B, Vegas Sánchez-Ferrero G, Walsh JW, Wan ES, Washko GR, Michael Wells
                  J, Wendt CH, <strong>Westney G</strong>, Wilson A, Wise RA, Yen A, Young K, Yun J, Silverman EK, Crapo JD. <strong>COPDGene<sup>®</sup> 2019: Redefining the Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease</strong>. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2019 Nov;6(5):384-399. doi: 10.15326/jcopdf.6.5.2019.0149.
                  PMID: 31710793; PMCID: PMC7020846.</li>
               <li>Maselli DJ, Bhatt SP, Anzueto A, Bowler RP, DeMeo DL, Diaz AA, Dransfield MT, Fawzy
                  A, Foreman MG, Hanania NA, Hersh CP, Kim V, Kinney GL, Putcha N, Wan ES, Wells JM,
                  <strong>Westney GE</strong>, Young KA, Silverman EK, Han MK, Make BJ. <strong>Clinical Epidemiology of COPD: Insights From 10 Years of the COPDGene Study</strong>. Chest. 2019 Aug;156(2):228-238. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.04.135. Epub 2019 May
                  30. PMID: 31154041; PMCID: PMC7198872.</li>
               <li>Han MK, Curran-Everett D, Dransfield MT, Criner GJ, Zhang L, Murphy JR, Hansel NN,
                  DeMeo DL, Hanania NA, Regan EA, Make BJ, Martinez FJ, <strong>Westney GE</strong>, Foreman MG; COPDGene Investigators. Racial differences in quality of life in patients
                  with COPD. <span class="jrnl" title="Chest">Chest</span>. 2011 Nov;140(5):1169-76. doi: 10.1378/chest.10-2869. Epub 2011 Jun 2. PMID: 21636665</li>
               <li>Foreman MG, Mannino DM, Kamugisha L, <strong>Westney GE</strong>. Hospitalization for patients with sarcoidosis: 1979-2000. <span class="jrnl" title="Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG / World Association of Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Disorders">Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis</span>. 2006 Jun;23(2):124-9. PMID: 17937108</li>
               <li><strong>Westney GE</strong>, Habib S, Quarshie A. Comorbid illnesses and chest radiographic severity in African-American
                  sarcoidosis patients. <span class="jrnl" title="Lung">Lung</span>. 2007 May-Jun;185(3):131-7. Epub 2007 Mar 24.PMID: 17384899</li>
               <li><strong>Westney GE</strong>, Judson MA. Racial and ethnic disparities in sarcoidosis: from genetics to socioeconomics. <span class="jrnl" title="Clinics in chest medicine">Clin Chest Med</span>. 2006 Sep;27(3):453-62, vi. Review. PMID: 16880055</li>
               <li>Mabo E, Edeki T, <strong>Westney GE</strong>, Reed JW, Guo X. Erythrocytosis in a scleroderma patient. <span class="jrnl" title="The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York">Mt Sinai J Med</span>. 2006 May;73(3):620-1. PMID: 16758101</li>
               <li><strong>Westney GE</strong>, Harris EN. Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome in the intensive care unit. <span class="jrnl" title="Critical care clinics">Crit Care Clin</span>. 2002 Oct;18(4):805-17. Review. PMID: 12418442</li>
            </ul>
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      </div>
   </publications>
   <awards>
      <ul>
         <li>Programs to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research (PRIDE)</li>
         <li>Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology</li>
         <li>Health Disparities Research Training Program</li>
         <li>Morehouse School of Medicine/Tuskegee/UAB Partnership Participant</li>
      </ul>
   </awards>
</profile>