Scientific Advisory Board

Karl E. Anderson, MD, Chairman (profile)
University of Texas Medical Branch

D. Montgomery Bissell, MD (profile)
University of California

Joseph R. Bloomer, MD
University of Alabama

Herbert L. Bonkovsky, MD (profile)
Carolinas Medical Center

Sylvia S. Bottomley, MD
University of Oklahoma

Robert J. Desnick, PhD, MD (profile)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

John H. Epstein, MD (profile)
University of California

Richard Galbraith, MD, PhD
University of Vermont

Micheline M. Mathews-Roth, MD (profile)
Harvard University School of Medicine

Neville Pimstone, MD, PhD
University of California

Maureen B. Poh-Fitzpatrick, MD
University of Tennessee

Steven Shedlofsky, MD (profile)
University of Kentucky

Peter V. Tishler, MD (profile)
Harvard University School of Medicine

Protect the Future

The following doctors and scientists are participants in the APF Protect the Future program to develop the next generation of porphyria experts. They work directly with members of the APF Scientific Advisory Board as part of a rigorous program of study, clinical and laboratory work, research and publishing. Read more about this pioneering project.

Manisha Balwani, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Bradley Freilich, MD
Kansas City, MO

Jennifer Guy, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Chul Lee, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston

Lawrence Liu, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Charles Marques Lourenço, MD
University of São Paulo, Brazil

Brendan McGuire, MD
University of Alabama-Birmingham

Tarun Narang, MD
Carolinas Medical Center

Sherif Abdel-Rahman, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston

Gagan Sood, MD
Baylor College of Medicine

Manish Thapar, MD
University of Missouri

Jeffrey Wickliffe, PhD
Tulane University