Sheila Kay West (born September 15, 1946) is an American ophthalmologist who is the El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute.

[citation needed] West joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Wilmer Eye Institute Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology.[when?]

She developed a surveillance system to monitor disparities in eye health, vision loss and access to ophthalmology.

[10] Alongside her work on cataracts, West was interested in the most common source of infectious eye disease, trachoma.

[citation needed] She evaluated the success of trichiasis surgical techniques and contributed to the World Health Organization's SAFE strategy.