The AASLD Distinguished Achievement Award is given to an individual in honor of his or her sustained scientific contributions to the field of liver disease and the scientific foundations of hepatology. The award honors a sustained contribution rather than a single discovery or major achievement. The awardee need not be a member of AASLD and may be a non-scientist but the contribution should be solidly in the area of liver disease, physiology, anatomy or pathology. Current AASLD Governing Board members are not eligible.
Presentation of the 2010 Distinguished Achievement Award to Sum-Ping Lee, MD, PhD
Dr. Sum-Ping Lee graduated from the University of Hong Kong, and has an illustrious career spanning Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the US. He is known for his research on hepato-biliary physiology. He successively used a multidisciplinary approach, including the biochemistry and the physical chemistry of bile secretion, the cell biology of the biliary epithelium, to correlate with clinical observations. Dr. Lee has served as an advisor of several major scientific journals and research funding agencies, and has received many recognition awards. Dr. Lee is currently Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong.
Distinguished Achievement Awardees
1986 Hyman J Zimmerman, MD
1989 Aron Rappaport, MD
1990 Rudi Schmid, MD
1991 Thomas E Starzl, MD
1993 Stanley E Bradley, MD and
Carl A Goresky, MD
1994 Irwin M Arias, MD
1995 Telfer B Reynolds, MD
1996 Irmin Sternlieb, MD
1997 Alan F Hofmann, MD
1998 James L Boyer, MD
1999 Francis V Chisari, MD
2000 Robert H Purcell, MD
2001 Jay H Hoofnagle, MD
2002 Roberto J Groszmann, MD
2003 Nicholas F LaRusso, MD
2004 D Montgomery Bissell, MD
2005 E Jenny Heathcote, MD
2006 Neil Kaplowitz, MD
2007 Juan Rodes, MD
2008 Lawrie W Powell, MD, PhD
2009 Nelson Fausto, MD