Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Natalie West is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include cystic fibrosis, general internal medicine and internal medicine.

Dr. West completed her undergraduate work at the University of Florida and attended medical school at the University of South Florida. She then moved to Vanderbilt University for an internal medicine residency, where she served as a Hugh Jackson Morgan Chief Resident. Dr. West earned a Master of Health Science at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2011. Dr. West joined the Johns Hopkins Cystic Fibrosis Center’s adult cystic fibrosis team as a faculty member in 2012, after completing her fellowship in pulmonary and critical medicine at Johns Hopkins.

Her research interests include home spirometry and symptom monitoring in CF patients, and outcomes in cystic fibrosis.

Dr. West was awarded a prestigious Shwachman Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Expertise

• Cystic Fibrosis
• Lung Transplant
• Pulmonary Medicine

Research Interests

• Outcomes in cystic fibrosis
• Therapeutic development for cystic fibrosis
• Treatment of pulmonary exacerbation

Board Certification

• Internal Medicine
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine