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