Dr. Lieber studied mathematics at the City College of New York where he received a BSc. He did medical school at the Faculté de Médicine de l’Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain, Belgium. He did his internship at the Kreiskrankenhaus Northeim in Germany and came back to America where he completed a surgical residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He studied in the Master’s Program in Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He holds a patent for a microelectronic device to measure blood flow in implanted vascular prosthetics

Dr. Lieber worked, in practice with his wife, Dr. Ursula Seinige, as a general surgeon at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and became the director of the independent surgery residency program there. He later became Chief of Surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital for Delaware which is a totally integrated medical center in the Thomas Jefferson University Medical School system. He holds the rank of Associate Professor of Surgery from Thomas Jefferson Medical School.

Dr. Lieber is a Fellow of the American College of Surgery. He has authored many papers and several book chapters on surgical topics. He has been invited to address his colleagues on several topics in many meetings.

In addition to managing the Department of Surgery at the Delaware VA Medical Center, he was in charge of patient care in the surgical intensive care unit. He has extensive experience in the practice and teaching of general, vascular, oncologic and bariatric surgery and in the management of the critically ill patient. He has a great interest in medical physiology and pathophysiology.

Dr. Lieber’s hobbies are cooking and reading mathematics. He bikes and enjoys tennis. He is widely traveled and loves art museums and zoos.

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Accreditation

Florida Gulf Coast University is accredited by the

Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate, baccalaureate, and master's degrees.

1866 Southern Lane

Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097

Telephone number 404-679-4501

Florida Gulf Coast University School of Nursing baccalaureate nursing program
is fully accredited through the
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530
Washington, DC 20036-1120
(202-887-6791)
for initial program accreditation.

Florida Gulf Coast University School of Nursing baccalaureate nursing program
is fully approved by the
Florida Board of Nursing
4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin # C02
Tallahassee, FL 32399-3257
(850) 488-0595
Program approval extends from 2001-2006

Florida Gulf Coast University School of Nursing Nurse Anesthesia Program
is accredited by the
Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA)
222 South Prospect Avenue

Park Ridge, IL.  60068

(847) 655-1160

The program's next accreditation review by the COA  is scheduled for May 2010