Seema Alam MD

Dr. Seema Alam established the first ever department of Pediatric Hepatology in the country. The department has achieved various milestones since then: starting the Pediatric Liver Transplantation program in September 2011 where we have transplanted 35 children, initiation of Post-doctoral Certificate Course in Pediatric Hepatology in January 2013 and we have finally trained 6 PDCC fellows successfully. The DM program in the specialty from September 2013 – nationally the first ever and only training in this superspeciality is in its fourth year.

Number of children attending out-patient clinic as well as those admitted in the wards have been increasing steadily. She is keenly interested in metabolic liver disease and her earnest enthusiasm has helped create widespread awareness about such disorders among pediatricians and adult gastroenterologists. She attended the APASL 2014 & 2015 conference at Brisbane & Istanbul respectively, where the organizers were persuaded to add a more organized Pediatric Hepatology session. Clinical Scenarios in Paediatric Liver disease was an idea introduced by her and it is successfully running in its fourth year.