HEPB.ORG - Key Persons
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
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- Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology, Director of Clinical Hepatology, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, University of Michigan
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology, Director of Clinical Hepatology, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, University of Michigan
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- Program Coordinator, Public Health
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
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- Program Manager, Public Health / BLUMBERG INSTITUTE
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Scientific and Clinical Director, Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program, Alaska Native Medical Center, Fairbanks, AK
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Global Health, UC San Francisco
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- Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
- Vice Chair
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- Associate Director, Public Health Research
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
- President
- President, Hepatitis B Foundation
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Owner, Gruber Administrative Services, LLC
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Professor Emeritus, UC San Francisco
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- Chairman
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Co - Founder and Former President of the Hepatitis B Foundation
- Co - Founder and Former President, Hepatitis B Foundation, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
- Co - Founder, Hepatitis B Foundation and Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
Dr. Timothy M. Block is a co-founder and former president of the Hepatitis B Foundation and its research arm, the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute. He also is a co-founder and former president of the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC), which is managed by the Blumberg Institute.
Dr. Block stepped down as president in July, 2022 but he is still actively participating in the leadership of the Foundation, the Blumberg Institute, and PABC. He now chairs the Board of Directors for all three organizations. Read more about this transition here.
The three nonprofit organizations share a campus in Doylestown, Pa. Dr. Block resides in Doylestown with his wife Joan, a registered nurse and Hepatitis B Foundation co-founder and board member emeritus.
Internationally recognized for his outstanding scholarship and scientific contributions, Dr. Block has been engaged in viral hepatitis research for more than 30 years. He has been a member of the faculty at Thomas Jefferson University (1984-2005) and the Drexel University School of Medicine (2005-2015). He is an adjunct professor at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
Dr. Block holds more than 20 patents and has co-authored more than 240 scholarly papers.
Joan and Tim Block were honored in 2020 by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases with its inaugural Distinguished Advocacy Service Award, which "recognizes service provided to the hepatology community over an extended period that raises awareness or garners public and federal legislative support and promotes liver health and quality patient care."
Dr. Block's many honors include being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and being named a Fellow of the Glycobiology Institute of the University of Oxford.
He was named a "Visionary in Hepatitis" by the World Hepatitis Alliance in 2017 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in 2022.
Dr. Block was inducted in 2017 as a National Academy of Inventors Fellow; and named "One of 100 Most Inspiring People in the Life-Sciences Industry" by PharmaVoice (2011). He has also received "Distinguished Service Recognition" from the National Cancer Institute's Early Detection Research Network and a "Special Citation" from the U.S. House of Representatives in recognition of "Outstanding Achievements." Dr. Block received an honorary Medical Doctorate and was elected to the Bulgarian Academy of Medicine; named "Judges' Choice of the Year" by the Philadelphia Business Journal's Inaugural Life Sciences Awards (2010); named Philadelphia Business Journal's Power 100 List (2019); and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce for his humanitarian efforts in addressing the global health problem of hepatitis B.
A principal investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Block serves on several NIH study sections. He is an elected Fellow, International Union Against Cancer; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Fellow of the Glycobiology Institute of the University of Oxford.
Dr. Block received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York Buffalo and completed his post-doctoral training at Princeton University.
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- Director, Communications & Marketing
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
- Treasurer
- Vice President
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP
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- Public Health Research Fellow
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- National Academy of Sciences / National Academy of Medicine
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- Associate Director, Policy & Partnerships Director, Hep B United
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Physician, Epidemiologist, Consultant
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Professor and Director, Liver Disease Prevention Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia
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- Program Coordinator, Public Health
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
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- Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Vice Chair
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology / Saint Louis University School of Medicine
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- Chief Development Officer
- Chief Development Officer, Institutional Advancement
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Director of Regional Outreach and Regional Hepatology / Professor of Clinical Medicine
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- President and CEO, Evrys Bio
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
- CEO, Hepatitis
CEO, Hepatitis B Foundation, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC); President of the PABC, President, Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Professor, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Operating Partner, Tinicum, LP
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- Program Director, Prevention Policy
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- Program Manager, Advocacy and Engagement
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- Social Media and Communications Manager
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Retired Biotech / Pharma Executive ( Focus on HBV and HCV )
- Retired Biotech / Pharma Executive ( Focus on HBV and HCV ), San Francisco
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Professor, Chief of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California / Scientific and Medical
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, Transition Patient Services, LLC
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Professor and Founder, Glycobiology Institute at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Director
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Professor
Raymond Schinazi, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Chemistry, and Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, Emory University; Founder of RFS Pharma
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Bio ) Medical Director
- Medical Director, Hepatitis B Foundation, and Principal, Robert G Gish Consulting LLC
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Senior Research Hepatologist, Hepatology Division of Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern
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- Program Coo Rdinator, Public Health
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Retired Managing Director, the Glenmede Trust
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Board Members Emeritus
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Medical Director, Center for Asian Health
- Senior Advisor for Global Health
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- Member of the Scientific and Medical Advisors Team
- Elkins Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the BOARD OFFICERS Team
- Secretary
- Founding CEO of Astra Merck and Novartis ( USA )
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- Emeritus, Fox Chase Cancer Center ( 2022 )
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- Public Health Program Director