Blaine F. Hollinger MD

Dr. F. Blaine Hollinger has been actively involved in hepatitis research since joining the Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 1968 and the Department of Medicine (GI/Baylor Liver Center) in 1981. He is currently Professor of Medicine, Molecular Virology & Epidemiology and Director of the Eugene B. Casey Hepatitis Research Center. He is a Fellow of the IDSA, the AGA, the ACG, and the AASLD. He is listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America and the American Men and Women of Science publications and is a Rhodes Scholar candidate. He has been an advisor and consultant on program projects, grants, and contracts related to viral hepatitis and drug therapy for the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a consultant to the Transfusion Transmitted Diseases Committee of the AABB. He served on the Blood Products Advisory Committee (BPAC) for the FDA becoming its Chairman in 1997 and again in 2010 for which he was presented with the Advisory Committee Service Award on each occasion.