Dr. Donald Freeman Westra M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
112 Doctors Park Lincolnton NC, 28092About
Dr. Donald Westra is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Lincolnton, NC. Dr. Westra specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Westra can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Westra can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Oh State Univ Coll of Med, Columbus Oh 1978
Ohio State University College of Medicine And Public Health,Columbus, Ohio, United States 1978
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Characterization of glycoprotein C of HSZP strain of herpes simplex virus 1.
- Characterization of foot-and-mouth disease virus antigen by surface-enhanced laser desorption ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry in aqueous and oil-emulsion formulations.
- Effect of thiomersal on dissociation of intact (146S) foot-and-mouth disease virions into 12S particles as assessed by novel ELISAs specific for either 146S or 12S particles.
- Stabilizing effects of excipients on dissociation of intact (146S) foot-and-mouth disease virions into 12S particles during storage as oil-emulsion vaccine.
- Tubal microsurgery with the carbon dioxide laser.
- Glycoprotein E1 of hog cholera virus expressed in insect cells protects swine from hog cholera.
- Glycoprotein H of herpes simplex virus type 1 requires glycoprotein L for transport to the surfaces of insect cells.
- Induction of interferon-alpha by glycoprotein D of herpes simplex virus: a possible role of chemokine receptors.
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