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Awards and Grants

Distinguished Service Award 
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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 

Dr. Bruce BaconBruce 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