January 19, 2001
Paul A. Sieving Named Director of National Eye Institute
Acting NIH Director Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., Jan. 11 announced the appointment of Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., as director of the National Eye Institute (NEI). Dr. Sieving is currently the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics and director, Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration, at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor. He will join the NEI in late spring. An honors graduate of Valparaiso University in history and physics, Dr. Sieving received an M.D. from the University of Illinois Medical School and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois Graduate School.
