- Hashem El-Serag
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name = Hashem El-Serag
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birth_place =Libya
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nationality = Palestinian-American
known_for =Hepatocellular carcinoma research
education = Al-Arab Medical University,Yale University Greenwich Hospital (Connecticut) ,University of New Mexico ,University of Mexico .
employer =Baylor College of Medicine
occupation = Gastroenterologist,Medical research er
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religion =Hashem El-Serag is a
Palestinian-American doctor and medical researcher best-known for his groundbreaking research inHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and thehepatitis C virus .El-Serag was born in 1966 in
Libya toPalestinian parents from theGaza Strip . He received hisM.D. from Al-Arab Medical University inBenghazi ,Libya . He then moved to theUnited States , where he performed his residence ininternal medicine atYale University Greenwich Hospital (Connecticut) and received agastroenterology fellowship at theUniversity of New Mexico inAlbuquerque , before earning hisMaster of Public Health from theNational Autonomous University of Mexico .Nearly all of the research on
Hepatocellular carcinoma in theUnited States can be attributed to El-Serag, who has published over 120 scholarly papers on the subject, and received theGlaxoWellcome Digestive Health Foundation Award for Health Care Advancement in 1997, theAmerican Gastroenterological Association 's Young Clinical Investigator Award in 2003, and theAmerican Gastroenterological Association 's Masters Award in Clinical Research in 2005 for his work. El-Serag has also become a leading expert onchronic liver disease ,gastroesophageal reflux disease andgenetic epidemiology .He is currently Chief of
Gastroenterology andHepatology atBaylor College of Medicine , and the Chief of ClinicalEpidemiology and Outcomes Division at Houston VA Medical Center inHouston, Texas . In addition, he is the Assistant Editor of the medical journal "Gastroenterology".References
* [http://www.bcm.edu/medicine/gi/?PMID=6583 Baylor College of Medicine Faculty]
* [http://imeu.net/news/article005760.shtml Profile of Hashem El-Serag at the Institute for Middle East Understanding]
* [http://www.hsrd.houston.med.va.gov/leadership2.htm#elserag Biography of Hashem El-Serag at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs]External links
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=El+Serag,+Hashem%5BFull+Author+Name%5D+OR+El-Serag+HB%5Bau%5D Selected publications by Dr. Hashem El-Serag at The National Center for Biotechnology Information]
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