John B. West

John Burnard West (* 1928 in Adelaide ) is an Australian - American physiologist who specializes in lung function .

Life

West received his medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Adelaide in 1952 , where he received his doctorate (MD) in 1959 and began his specialist training (internship). He then went to Hammersmith Hospital in London for his residency, which he finished in 1960. There he was a member of the Respiratory Research Group, which was able to fall back on innovative devices such as the cyclotron and mass spectrometer in research. In the same year he received his PhD from the University of London (Ph. D.). In 1961/62 he was a post-doctoral student with Hermann Rahn at the University of Buffalo and then again in London as head of the Respiratory Research Group at the Postgraduate Medical School of the University of London. In 1968 he became a reader there . After a sabbatical at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field , California in 1968, he became Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the University of California, San Diego in 1969 .

At the Hammersmith Hospital in London, he examined the local differences in blood flow and ventilation in the lungs with the help of isotopes (such as oxygen-15) artificially generated in a cyclotron . He later investigated this using a technique developed by him and Peter Wagner (Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique) and in computer models. He also dealt with the effects of gravity on the lungs (and weightlessness) and physiological changes at high altitudes: in 1960/61 he participated as a physiologist on a Himalayan expedition led by Edmund Hillary and in 1981 he led the American Medical Research Expedition on Mount Everest.

In 1977 he received the Ernst Jung Prize . In 1980 he received a PhD (D. Sc.) From the University of Adelaide. Since 1994 he has been a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

In 1984/85 he was President of the American Physiological Society . He is a US citizen.

Fonts

Respiratory Physiology- the Essentials, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins 1974, 2nd edition 1980 (also translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Iranian, Dutch, Malay)
Pulmonary pathophysiology. The essentials. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore 1979.

Web links

Biography with the American Physiological Society

Individual evidence

↑ West, Dollery distribution of blood flow and ventilation-perfusion ratio in the lung, Measured with radioactive CO2 , J. App. Physiol., Vol. 15, 1960, pp. 405-410
^ West Ventilation perfusion inequality and overall gas exchange in computer models of the lung , Respir. Physiol., Vol. 7, 1969, pp. 88-110
↑ West, F. Matthews Stresses, strains and surface pressures in the lung caused by its weight , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 31, 1972, pp. 332-345
↑ West Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide at high altitude , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 17, 1962, pp. 421-426, West, Lahiri, Gill, Milledge, Pugh, Ward Arterial oxygene saturation during exercise at high altitude , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 17, 1962, pp. 617-621, Pugh, Gill, Lahiri, Milledge, Ward, West Muscular exercise at great altitude , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 19, 1964, pp. 431-440
↑ West, Lahiri, Maret, Peters, Pizzo Barometric pressures at extreme altitudes on Mt. Everest: physiological significance , J. App. Physiol., Vol. 54, 1983, pp. 1188-1194, West, Hackett, Maret, Milledge, Peters, Pizzo, Winslow Pulmonary gas exchange on the summit of Mt. Everest , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 55, 1983, pp. 678-687, West, Boyer, Graber, Hackett, Maret, Milledge, Peters, Pizzo, Samaja, Sarnquist, Schoene, Winslow Maximal Exercise at extreme altitudes on Mt. Everest , J. Appl . Physiol., Vol. 55, 1983, pp. 688-689
^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. John Bernard West. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 10, 2015 (Russian).

personal data
SURNAME	West, John B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	West, John Burnard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian medic
DATE OF BIRTH	1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Adelaide

[1] West, Dollery distribution of blood flow and ventilation-perfusion ratio in the lung, Measured with radioactive CO2 , J. App. Physiol., Vol. 15, 1960, pp. 405-410

[2] West Ventilation perfusion inequality and overall gas exchange in computer models of the lung , Respir. Physiol., Vol. 7, 1969, pp. 88-110

[3] West, F. Matthews Stresses, strains and surface pressures in the lung caused by its weight , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 31, 1972, pp. 332-345

[4] West Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide at high altitude , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 17, 1962, pp. 421-426, West, Lahiri, Gill, Milledge, Pugh, Ward Arterial oxygene saturation during exercise at high altitude , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 17, 1962, pp. 617-621, Pugh, Gill, Lahiri, Milledge, Ward, West Muscular exercise at great altitude , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 19, 1964, pp. 431-440

[5] West, Lahiri, Maret, Peters, Pizzo Barometric pressures at extreme altitudes on Mt. Everest: physiological significance , J. App. Physiol., Vol. 54, 1983, pp. 1188-1194, West, Hackett, Maret, Milledge, Peters, Pizzo, Winslow Pulmonary gas exchange on the summit of Mt. Everest , J. Appl. Physiol., Vol. 55, 1983, pp. 678-687, West, Boyer, Graber, Hackett, Maret, Milledge, Peters, Pizzo, Samaja, Sarnquist, Schoene, Winslow Maximal Exercise at extreme altitudes on Mt. Everest , J. Appl . Physiol., Vol. 55, 1983, pp. 688-689

[6] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. John Bernard West. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 10, 2015 (Russian).