Mohamed H. Sayegh

Biography

Dr. Mohamed H. Sayegh is currently the Raja N. Khuri Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs at the American University of Beirut. He was appointed in this position in 2009. He was a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School since 2003, and Director of the Schuster Family Transplantation Research Center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2005, he was named the Warren E. Grupe and John P. Merrill Endowed Chair in Transplantation Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sayegh served as Council Member and President (2000 – 2001) of the American Society of Transplantation (AST). He served as the Chair of the Transplant Advisory Board of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN). He also served as the Chair of the AST Program, Education and Development Committees, as the Chair of the 2005 ASN Program Committee, and the Chair of the Program Committee of the 2006 World Transplant Congress and the 2007 World Congress of Nephrology. He served as co-chair of the Steering Committee of the NIH Immune Tolerance Network and member of the Executive Committee. He also served as Chair of the Steering Committee of the NIH consortium, Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT).

Research Interest

Medicine, Pediatrics ,Research,etc