Alex Westerman, MD

Clinical Instructor

Alex Westerman is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF.

He attends on the Goldman, night hospitalist, neurosurgery co-management, and Parnassus/Mission Bay hospitalist consult services. His clinical interests include medical education, diagnostic reasoning, point-of-care ultrasound, and patient experience.

Education
Residency, 06/2020 - Internal Medicine, Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital
D.O., 05/2017 - College of Osteopathic Medicine, Rocky Vista University
B.A., 12/2009 - Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado
Publications

  1. SK Garg, K Reed, J Grey, A Westerman. Possible impacts of new accuracy standards of self-monitoring of blood glucose US Endocrinol 2013. PMID:


  2. Hale MW, Johnson PL, Westerman AM, Abrams JK, Shekhar A, Lowry CA. Multiple anxiogenic drugs recruit a parvalbumin-containing subpopulation of GABAergic interneurons in the basolateral amygdala. Volume 34 of Issue 7. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry 2010. PMID: 20647026