Howard Liebman, MD

Dr. Howard Liebman, Professor of Medicine and Pathology is the author or co-author of over 170 peer reviewed publications, review articles and chapters. He has presented over two hundred lectures across the United States, South America, Europe. Korea and Japan. He has served as the former Chair of the Massachusetts Governor’s Task Force subcommittee on experimental therapies and clinical trials for AIDS. He is a medical advisor for the Platelet Disorder Support Association and a member of the Cancer and Thrombosis Guidelines Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He has served on several grant review committees for the National Institute of Health. He presently holds the Donald I Feinstein Endowed Chair of Hematology.

In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr. Liebman is an attending staff member of the LAC+USC Medical Center, the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Keck Hospital of USC. Dr. Liebman also is on the forefront of research in thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorders. His lab is currently studying the genetic risk factors responsible for thrombotic diseases including venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and arterial thrombosis. Dr. Liebman is also internationally known for his work in the relationships between venous thrombotic disease and underlying malignancy. He has been and is the principal investigator on several clinical trials in the management of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). His research group has made important discoveries on the role of infectious agents in the development of immune thrombocytopenia and secondary ITP.

• Fellow, American College of Physicians

• Keck School of Medicine — MD — Medical School, Doctor of Medicine
• LAC + USC Medical Center — Internship, Internal Medicine
• LAC + USC Medical Center — Residency, Internal Medicine
• LAC + USC Medical Center — Fellowship, Hematology
• Tufts-New England Medical Center — Fellowship in Immunochemistry and coagulation chemistry

• ROLE OF METAL IONS IN THE FUNCTION OF HUMAN FACTOR IX
  NIH · R29HL039665 · Feb 15, 1988 – Mar 1, 1994 · Role: Principal Investigator

• Kim, Taylor
• Demetriades, Demetrios
• Young, Guy
• Weitz, Ilene
• Heckmann, Nathanael
• Lieberman, Jay