The AASLD Distinguished Clinician Educator/Mentor Award is given in honor of the sustained service of clinician educators to AASLD or the liver community in general. The award recognizes the skills of outstanding clinicians and educators who have made momentous contributions to hepatology over an extended period. The awardee need not be a member of the AASLD. Current members of the AASLD Governing Board are not eligible.
Presentation of the 2010 Distinguished Clinician Educator/Mentor Award to Norman D. Grace, MD
Dr. Grace is a graduate of Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine (TUMS). He completed an NIH fellowship in Gastroenterology/Hepatology under the sponsorship of Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers at TUMS in 1967. He has spent his entire career in Boston where he is Professor of Medicine at TUMS, having served as Chief of Gastroenterology at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital from 1970-1994 and Chief of Gastroenterology at the Faulkner Hospital from 1977-2001. In 1999, he moved to the Brigham and Womens Hospital where he is Director of Clinical Hepatology and a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Grace is an author of more than 100 manuscripts and book chapters with major interests in portal hypertension/variceal bleeding and hemochromatosis. Over 100 gastroenterology fellows have trained under Dr. Grace, a number of whom currently hold academic appointments at major teaching hospitals. Dr. Grace has received several honors for his teaching and clinical activities including an award from TUMS for Dedication to Medical Education and Excellence in Teaching, Physician of the Year Award from the NE Chapter of the American Liver Foundation (ALF) and the Jerry S. Trier Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Brigham and Womens Hospital. Dr. Grace was Chair of the Boston Interhospital Liver Group for 25 years. He served on the Executive Board of the NE chapter of the ALF for over 30 years and recently completed a term on the ALF National Board. His involvement with AASLD dates from 1966. He was the initial Chair of the Public Policy Committee and the initial Co-Chair of the Practice Guidelines Committee. He also served on the Clinical Committee, the Long Range Planning Committee and the Research Steering Committee Task Force. He served on the Editorial Board of HEPATOLOGY and has chaired abstract review committees in portal hypertension.
Distinguished Clinician Educator/Mentor Awardees
2008 Albert J Czaja, MD
2009 Laurie Blendis, MD