Dr. West is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her area of clinical and research expertise is cystic fibrosis. She received a master's in health science degree in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, through the full-time Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation (GTPCI). Her research interest is in the niche of pulmonary exacerbations, which are repeated events in the lives of individuals with cystic fibrosis. She is one of the national investigators that has been integral in the design of two large trials coordinated through the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutic Development Network, which is examining treatment of pulmonary exacerbations (Standardized Treatment of Pulmonary Exacerbations (STOP)), as well as STOP-2, assessing different durations of IV antibiotics. She has been awarded the Clinical Research Scholars Program award from the CF Foundation, which is a three-year award designed to train physicians to design and conduct clinical trials. This study funds her research in evaluating the role of inhaled antibiotics in CF. Lastly, she is one of five women who founded the Women’s Health Research Working Group, whose aim is to determine the gaps in knowledge around health issues that impact women with CF, to identify future research priorities, and to begin to develop the infrastructure needed to efficiently move these research priorities forward.