Dr. Leonard B. Seeff
DDDN
LIVER DISEASES BRANCH
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room 9A27
31 Center Dr.
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-435-3338
Fax: 301-480-7926
Email: seeffl@mail.nih.gov
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Current Position:
Senior Scientist for Hepatitis Research, Liver Disease Research Branch
Current Portfolio/Responsibilities:
Help supervise and coordinate several NIDDK network studies – HALT-C, Virahep C
(both hepatitis Studies); DILIN (drug-induced liver injury study), A2ALL (Adult to
adult living donor liver transplantation study), NASH (Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
study), SyNCH (silymarin trial for hepatitis C and NASH); chair committees in HALTC
and DILIN; advise Director, Liver Disease Branch on relevant liver disease issues,
including Liver Action Plan; organize liver disease-related conferences and workshops:
liaison on hepatitis and other liver diseases to NIH ICs (NIDA, NCCAM, NIAID,
NHLBI, NIAAA), Department of Veterans Affairs, Centers for Disease Control,
Department of Defense, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases,
American Gastroenterology Association, World Health Organization
Previous Training and Experience:
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Internship and Residency training, Johannesburg General and
Coronation Hospital, 1961-1963
Residency Internal Medicine and GI/Hepatology Fellowship,
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Chicago, Illinois and VA Medical Center,
Washington DC and Boston Mass, 1964-1967
Chief Gastroenterology and Hepatology, VA Medical Center, Washington DC,
1978-1998
Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine 1984-1998
Committees/ Working Groups:
NIDA, External Advisory Committee; NCI Data Quality
Monitoring Committee; NHLBI Serum Repository Committee
Special Government Employee for Food and Drug Administration
Advisor to International Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes Committee
(Guidelines for treatment of hepatitis C in kidney disease);
Guidelines for treatment of hepatitis C for American Association for Study of Liver
Diseases
Oversight Committee of Chiron HCV Vaccine study
Other Activities:
Editorial Boards
Seminars in Liver Disease; Hellenic Journal of Gastroenterology;
Minerva Gastroenterlogica e Dieteloica
Reviewer: Over 20 national and international journals
Page last updated: September 01, 2007