2022 Speaker Profile

Dr. West is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a Scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. West is board-certified in psychiatry and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He served as an embedded Navy psychiatrist in support of the Marine Corps in Iraq and Afghanistan. His professional interests include sustaining the resilience of disaster workers and promoting embedded systems of care, psychiatric education, and translating understanding of the biological underpinnings of PTSD into more effective treatments.