The Seebohm Legacy
The University of Iowa Department of Internal Medicine Paul M. and Dorothy E. Seebohm Visiting Lectureship in Allergy was created in 1993 to provide a special educational opportunity for medical students, residents, and fellows in allergic and immunologic diseases. Each year, a prominent investigator in the field of allergy and immunology is invited to The University of Iowa. These visits are supported by the Allergy Education Endowment established by the Seebohms and supplemented by gifts from the Pat Carr Allergy Fund, the Evelyn Dulin Memorial Fund, Mrs. Karen (Wormley) Phippard, James F. Phippard, Mrs. Karen (Seebohm) Jackson, Mr. Jack Wormley, and the late Mr. Jack D. Jackson and Mrs. Chloressa Wormley.
Paul M. Seebohm, MD, was Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He was Director of the first UI Allergy-Immunology Division and also served as Executive Associate Dean in the UI College of Medicine, and was a past-president of The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
Dr. and Mrs. Seebohm have been kind, generous, and ardent supporters of The University of Iowa, the College of Medicine, the Department of Internal Medicine and, especially, the Division of Immunology.
Paul and Dorothy Seebohm, 1993
Previous Seebohm Lecturers:
| 2024 | Carole Ober, PhD Chair of Human Genetics Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Human Genetics Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology University of Chicago |
| 2023 | Stephanie C. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD Director, Center for Human Immunobiology Chief, Allergy & Immunology (Medicine) Professor, Department of Pathology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois |
| 2022 | David A. Khan, MD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| 2021 | Kathleen Sullivan, MD, PhD Chief, Allergy Division Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| 2019 | Robert Naclerio, MD, FACS Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 2018 | Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD The Sol and Clara Kest Professor of Dermatology Vice Chair for Research at the Department of Dermatology Director, Center for Excellence in Eczema Head, Laboratory for Inflammatory Skin Diseases Icahn Medical School at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York |
| 2017 | Robert A. Wood, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Director, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology; Director, Pediatric Clinical Research Unit, Johns Hopkins University President-Elect, American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology |
| 2016 | David B. Peden, MD, MS Harry S. Andrews Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research Associate Chair for Research & Chief, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics Director, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma & Lung Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine |
| 2015 | Stanley J. Szefler, MD Director, Pediatric Asthma Research Program The Breathing Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado |
| 2014 | Stacie M. Jones, MD Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Allergy and Immunology Dr. and Mrs. Leeman King Chair in Pediatric Allergy University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children's Hospital |
| 2013 | Mariana C. Castells, MD Associate Professor, Allergy and Immunology, Harvard Medical School Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| 2012 | Steven M. Holland, MD Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases Chief, Immunopathogenesis Section, LCID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD |
| 2011 | Thomas B. Casale, MD Professor of Medicine; Chief of Allergy/Immunology Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska |
| 2010 | Daniel Kastner, MD, PhD Scientific Director, Intramural Research Program, National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
| 2009 | Jordan Orange, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director, Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center for Primary Immunodeficiency Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
| 2008 | Dale T. Umetsu, MD, PhD Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz al Saud Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Senior Associate, Division of Immunology/Allergy, Children's Hospital Boston |
| 2007 | Dhavalkumar Patel, MD, PhD Eminent Professor, Dept of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Head, Autoimmunity and Transplantation Research Basel at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2006 | Donald Y.M. Leung, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Medical School Edelstein Family Chair of Pediatric Allergy-Immunology National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado |
| 2005 | David P. Huston, MD Cullen Professor of Immunology Trammell Chair in Allergy and Immunology, Departments of Medicine and Immunology Director, Biology of Inflammation Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas |
| 2004 | Gerald J. Gleich, MD Professor of Dermatology & Medicine University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 2003 | Rafeul Alam, MD, PhD Veda and Chauncey Ritter Chair in Immunology Professor and Director, Division of Allergy & Immunology National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado |
| 2002 | Lawrence Schwartz, MD Charles & Evelyn Thomas Professor of Medicine Chair, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia |
| 2001 | Dean D. Metcalfe, MD Chief, Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
| 2000 | K. Frank Austen, MD Theodore Bevier Bayles Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Inflammation & Allergic Diseases, Research Section, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1999 | W. James Metzger, MD Distinguished Research Professor of Medicine Head, Section of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina |
| 1998 | William R. Henderson, Jr, MD Professor of Medicine; Head, Allergy Section University of Washington, Seattle, Washington |
| 1997 | Philip S. Norman, MD Professor of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1996 | William W. Busse, MD Professor of Medicine; Head, Division of Allergy-Immunology University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 1995 | Raif S. Geha, MD Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of Immunology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1994 | Rebecca H. Buckley, MD James Buren Sidbury Professor, of Pediatrics and Immunology Duke University, Durham, North Carolina |
| 1993 | Henry N. Claman, MD Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado |