Professor of Pediatrics - Semmelweis University, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Budapest
Professor of Pediatrics (Adjunct) - Keck School of Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, CA
Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Professor Seri earned his medical degree from Semmelweis University in 1976, passed his specialization exam in pediatrics in 1981, and defended his кандидат dissertation in medical science in 1985. He worked in Hungary until 1984 as a pediatrician at the Semmelweis University Children’s Clinic and as a neonatologist at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic. He conducted his laboratory research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (1984–86) and at Harvard University in Boston (1986–91).
He continued his bedside work as a neonatologist at Harvard University clinics (1988–94), the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania (1994–2001), the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California (2001–2014), and Sidra Maternal and Child Health Center in Qatar, Weill Cornell University (2014–2017).
His academic and administrative leadership roles included serving at Harvard University as an assistant professor, at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor and later associate professor, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles as professor, department chair, and director of the Fetal Diagnosis and Surgery Institute, and at Cornell University’s Qatar campus as professor, head of the neonatology department, and deputy director of the institute. After returning to Hungary in 2017, he worked at the Semmelweis University Children’s Clinic as a university research professor until 2020, and since then he has continued to serve as a university professor, educator, and scientific and clinical mentor, while also training PhD students at the Semmelweis University Doctoral School.
For his primarily U.S.-based scientific work, including more than 300 international scientific papers and book chapters, as well as the editing of several scientific books and textbooks, and for his university teaching, he received 21 awards from Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Sidra Maternal and Child Health Center, and Semmelweis University. In 2004, Semmelweis University awarded him an honorary doctorate, and in 2021, an honorary professorship. In recognition of his scientific achievements, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him an honorary member in 2016.
As a result of his scientific, clinical, and educational work in neonatal circulatory physiology and shock, as well as fetal diagnostics and therapy, Professor Seri has been one of the internationally recognized leaders in neonatology for decades.