The AASLD Distinguished Service Award is given to an individual in honor of his or her sustained service to AASLD or the liver disease community in general. The award recognizes service provided to the community of hepatology researchers and clinicians over an extended period; service that is well above and beyond that provided by many members who serve on the Governing Board and Committees of the AASLD. 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 Service Award to Bruce R. Bacon, MD
Bruce R. Bacon, MD has been the Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine since 1990. He has had a long extensive research interest in hepatic iron metabolism and was a member of the research team that discovered the gene for hemochromatosis, HFE. He is the former Chair of the Subspecialty Board on Gastroenterology and Chair of the Subspecialty Board on Transplant Hepatology for the ABIM. Currently his research interests are in the field of hemochromatosis, iron overload, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and chronic hepatitis B and C. He was President of AASLD in 2004.
Distinguished Service Awardees
1981 Leon Schiff, MD
1983 Hans Popper, MD
1984 Burton Combes, MD
1988 Dame Sheila Sherlock, MD, PhD
1989 Herbert Falk, MD
1990 Kunio Okauda, MD
1991 Carroll M Leevy, MD
1993 Sarah C Kalser, PhD
1997 Steven Schenker, MD
1998 Kamal G Ishak, MD
1999 Michael F Sorrell, MD
2000 Willis C Maddrey, MD
2001 Anthony S Tavill, MD
2002 Esteban Mezey, MD
2003 Paul D Berk, MD
2004 Eugene R Schiff, MD
2005 Leonard B Seeff , MD
2006 Allan W Wolkoff , MD
2007 William F Balistreri , MD
2008 Andres T Blei, MD
2009 Joseph R Bloomer, MD