Barbara Frances Westerhaus, MD

Internal Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Internal Medicine - J. Edwin Wood
Schedule onlineCall 215-829-3521
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

My education and training

  • Medical School: Emory University
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Westerhaus is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Westerhaus B, Gosmanov AR, Umpierrez GE Diabetes Prevention: Can Insulin Secretagogues Do the Job? , Primary Care Diabetes, 5(2): 2011,73-80

Westerhaus B, Klein R Hyponatremia: Does the Diagnosis Matter? , Clinical vignette poster presentation presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the ACP, Atlanta, GA: 2010

Edelson, DP, Litzinger B, Arora V, Walsh D, Salem Kim, Diane S Lauderdale, Terry L Vanden Hoek, Lance B Becker, Benjamin S Abella Improving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Precess and Outcomes with Performance Debriefing. , Archives of Internal Medicine, 168(10): 2008,1063-69

Litzinger B, Guo R and Cunningham PN The role of superoxide dismutase 1 in endotoxin-induced acute renal failure. , Chicago Biological Investigator: 2006,39-42