Anne J. West, MD

It is the diversity of individual human experiences, backgrounds, ethnicities, and belief systems that led me to family medicine. My own background is Korean-American. My parents are both immigrants from South Korea. I was born and grew up in the United States. I went to college in New York and then spent two years with the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso. My medical training included deeply memorable experiences from rotations through the Indian Health Service in Arizona to riding small planes to villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Western Alaska. Prior to coming to Duke, I worked in rural North Carolina. I see patients of all ages from newborn to end of life care. My interests include preventive medicine, women’s health, maternal child health and international health issues. My husband is an anthropologist and we have two young children.