Diana Westgate, MD

Diana Westgate, MD is a dermatologist. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI. She completed her Transitional Year Internship at Grand Rapids Medical Education and Research Center in Grand Rapids, MI and her dermatology residency at Harvard Medical School Department of Dermatology. Her post-graduate work has included a Medical Directorship at the Lacks Cancer Center Skin Cancer Clinic, appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (Grand Rapids Campus) where she hosted medical students and residents during dermatology clerkships and provided didactic lectures, Case-based Learning Facilitator at Indiana School of Medicine (Fort Wayne, IN) and Guest Lecturer at numerous venues from Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine to the Indiana Academy of Dermatology. While Dr. Westgate practices complex medical dermatology at Forefront Dermatology, her specific clinical interests include GI-Derm and Skin-Gut Axis diseases and cutaneous manifestations of allergic diseases. She is an expert in the use of biologics and other high risk medications. From a medical education perspective, she is interested in the equity and diversity in the house of dermatology and expanding the footprint of dermatology education in Western Michigan.