Luis Seija MD
Luis Seija is an affiliate trainee at PolicyLab and Clinical Futures at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as well as a second-year postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP). He is also a student in the Master of Science in Health Policy Research program at the University of Pennsylvania with aspirations of becoming a funded clinician-investigator and transplant hepatologist for patients and families of all ages.
Dr. Seija’s research interests primarily focus on embedding equity and promoting justice within and across transplant policies and practices through qualitative and mixed methods, particularly pediatric/adolescent transitions of care and integrated, person-centered care models for patients with alcohol-associated liver disease and alcohol use disorder.
He is a native of Austin, Texas, and a proud Texan, earning his BA from the University of Texas at Austin, his MD from Texas A&M University College of Medicine, and he completed a combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City where he also served as chief resident. Following NCSP, Dr. Seija will continue his clinical training in Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School starting July 2025.