Dr. Edward Doo : NIDDK

Dr. Edward Doo

Director, Liver Disease Research Program
LIVER DISEASES BRANCH
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Building 2DEM, Room 651
6707 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-451-4524
Fax: 301-480-8300
Email: dooe@mail.nih.gov

Current Position:

Program Director: Liver Disease Research Programs
LCDR, United States Public Health Service



Concurrent Positions:

Project Officer: Studies in Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT),

Hepatitis B Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (HBV-OLT),

Sylimarin for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and C Hepatitis (SyNCH)
NIDDK AIDS Coordinator


Current Portfolio/Responsibilities:

Manage the Liver Disease Research Branch grant portfolio in the following topical

areas:

Cell injury, repair, fibrosis and inflammation

Viral hepatitis and infectious diseases

HIV and liver

Pediatric liver diseases

Genetic liver diseases

Liver transplantation

Complication of chronic liver diseases

Liver cancer

Attend on the Liver Disease Branch consultative and inpatient service.

Serve as Project Officer on SPLIT, HBV-OLT, and SyNCH

Serve as Scientific Advisor or ex-officio member on the following consortia:

Biliary Atresia Research Consortium (BARC)

Pegylated Interferon with and without Ribavirin for Children with Hepatitis C (Peds-C)

Cholestatic Liver Diseases Consortium (CLiC)

Acute Liver Failure Study Group (ALFSG)

Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network (NASH-CRN)


Previous Training and Experience:

M.D.-Cornell University Medical College (1990)

Internal Medicine Residency-The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (1993)

Gastroenterology Fellowship-University of California at Los Angeles (1995)

Liver Diseases Fellowship-NIDDK (2002)

Transplant Hepatologist-California Pacific Medical Center (2004)

Program Director-NIDDK (present)



Committees/ Working Groups:

Diabetes Complications Committee

Translational Working Group

Minority Affairs Advisory Committee



Other Activities:
US Public Health Service Rapid Deployment Force
Staff Physician, Liver Diseases Branch, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

Page last updated: September 01, 2007

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