Nicholas Edward Seeliger

Nicholas Seeliger (born August 19, 1980) is an American Physician and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at LSU School of Medicine - New Orleans. He is the founder and medical director of the medical humanitarian non-profit Healing Peru.[1]

Seeliger is a graduate of Florida State University. Florida State University College of Medicine.[2] Seeliger has worked in rural El Salvador, Haiti, Panama, Mexico, and Ghana.[3] [4] While completing graduate medical education he founded the non-profit organization Healing Peru.[5] [6] Seeliger and colleagues were selected for publication in the journal of Environmental and Wilderness Medicine: "Chronic Mountain Sickness in the Peruvian Andes".[7]

Award

From 2009 to 2013, Seeliger proudly served in the United States Air Force at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey and Lajes Air Base, Portugal. Dr. Seeliger's clinic at Lajes was honored with being named "The Best Patient Centered Medical Home in the USAF" for the year 2012.

Currently, Dr. Seeliger is an Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at LSU School of Medicine. Seeliger most recently completed another project in the Peruvian Andes in May 2015.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Smythe, Angelique (29 March 2012). "Healing Peru: Airmen Depart". Lajes Crossroads. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Alumni". Florida State University College of Medicine. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013.
  3. ↑ "Seeliger in Africa". FSU Online (Florida State University College of Medicine). 28 June 2006. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013.
  4. ↑ Ziglar, Adam (26 April 2006). "Attorney of the poor". Crestview News Bulletin. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Chastain, Savannah (16 Jan 2009). "Peru Mission". Hurlburt Patriot. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013.
  6. ↑ Kotsmatka, Timothy (Fall 2008). "Consultant Report - USAF" (PDF). USAFP 2008. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013.
  7. ↑ Ochsner, Robert; Seeliger et al. (March 2010). "Chronic Mountain Sickness in the Peruvian Andes". Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. 1 21: 72073. doi:10.1016/j.wem.2009.12.047. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013.
  8. ↑ Vidoni, Sara (23 August 2013). "Eglin Airmen Utilize Expertise" (PDF). Eglin Dispatch. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, September 01, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.