Dr. Westwood chose to pursue family medicine because of the diversity of patients, pathologies, and career opportunities found only in this specialty. He also has his PhD in microbiology and cell science from UF. He worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Duke University Medical Center, department of pathology. He has several publications from this experience and his most recent one on the role of mast cells in inflammatory bowel disease and inflammation-associated Colorectal neoplasia.