Grant Advisors

Steven A. Webber MBChB, MRCP

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION:

1978-1983 - University of Bristol Medical School, Bristol, Great Britain. MB, ChB with Honors. (First in medical school class)

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINING:

Pediatric Cardiology Fellowships
July 1989-June 1992 - British Columbia Children's Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Pediatric Residency
August 1986-July 1989 - John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, University Hosptial Nottingham, UK and Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina

Internal Medicine Residency
February 1983- July 1986 - Bristol Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospitals, UK

APPOINTMENTS AND POSITIONS

Academic:
July 2006-present - University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Pediatrics with Tenure

Non-Academic:
July 2006-present - Chief, Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
July 2006-present - Co-Director, Heart Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
July 2006-present Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
October 1995-present - Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Medical Director, Pediatric Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation
July 1992-August 1994 - Southampton University National Health Service Trust, UK, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young 1992-present
British Paediatric Cardiology Association 1992-present
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 1995-present
Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group 1993-present
American Society of Transplantation 1998-present
Society for Pediatric Research 1998-present
International Pediatric Transplant Association 1999-present
The Transplantation Society 2000-present
American Pediatric Society 2007-present

HONORS and AWARDS

1983 - MBChB - Graduation with Honors (1st in class)
1990 - University of British Columbia Rotary-Todokoro prize. For most promising research by cardiology resident/fellow (adult or pediatric)
1991 - University of British Columbia Max Walter's cardiology resident/fellow award
2004 - American Society of Transplantation Fujisawa Clinical Scientist Achievement Award

PUBLICATIONS

1. Refereed Publications (129)
2. Invited Review Articles (21)
3. Invited Editorials (9)
4. Book chapters (28)
5. Books and monographs (4)

ABSTRACTS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 222

RESEARCH

Principal or Co-Investigator on 22 grants since 1994. Total grant funding in excess of $20 million. Two grants each in excess of $5m from National Institutes of Health

INVITED SPEAKER AT NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS 82

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Editorial Board: Cardiology in the Young; Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Associate Editor: Congenital Heart Disease
Co-Editor: Pediatric Transplantation

MAJOR NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

1. Pediatric Committee Chair & Thoracic Advisory Committee Chair, American Society of Transplantation
2. Past President, Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group
3. Past President, International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA).
4. Past Member, Board of Directors, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
5. At Large Member, Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee, United Network for Organ Sharing.