Judith A. Westman, MD Associate Professor, Clinical Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Medical Biochemistry Human Cancer Genetics Program The James Cancer Hospital College of Medicine The Ohio State University

Education:

• Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, B.A. 1978, Chemistry
• The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, M.D. 1981, Medicine
  with Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 1984, Pediatrics
  with Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 1985
  with Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 1987, Clinical Genetics
• The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, M.S. 1987, Genetics/Pediatrics

Licensure or Certification:

• (1986) Board Certification by the American Board of Pediatrics
• (1987) Board Certification by the American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Genetics)

Partial List of Publications:

• Westman J, Hampel H, Bradley T: Efficacy of a touchscreen computer-based family cancer history questionnaire and subsequent cancer risk assessment. J Med Genet 37:354-360, May, 2000.
• Westman JA, Stover EH, Singley C: Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type I in the Amish. Am J Hum Genet 65(4):A348. October, 1999.
• Graham JS, Bradley TL, Hampel H, Wright F, Westman JA: Jameslink: an innovative touch-screen kiosk system for tailored cancer risk assessment and notification. Am J Hum Genet 65(4):A82. October, 1999.
• Westman JA: A test for the future. Gynecologic Oncology 74(3):329-330, September 1999.
• Graham J, Martin E, Prior T, Isa A, Chadwick R, Westman J, de la Chapelle A: Predictive value of microsatellite instability screening for counseling families with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). J Genetic Counseling 7(6):455-456, Dec 1998.
• Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Westman JA, Jalal SM, Lindor NM: Clinical characteristics associated with dup17(q24q25.1) in a mosaic mother and two non-mosaic daughters. Clinical Dysmorphology 7(3):171-176, 1998.
• Tsao CY, Westman JA: Infantile spasms in 2 children with Williams syndrome. Am J Med Genet 71:54-56, Jul 1997.
• Sidransky E, Ginns EI, Westman JA, Ehmann WC: Pathologic fractures may develop in Gaucher patients receiving enzyme replacement therapy. Am J Hematol 47(3);247-249, Nov 1994.
• Kaler SG, Westman JA, Bernes SM, Elsayed AM, Bowe CM, Freeman KLB, Wu CD, Wallach MT: Gastrointestinal hemorrhage associated with gastric polyps in Menkes disease. J Pediatr 122(1):93-95, Jan 1993.

Awards:

• 1998-99 Fellow, Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women; Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Institute for Women's Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania