Distinguished Service Award 

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Anna Suk-Fong Lok, MD
2011 Distinguished Service Award 



AASLD is proud to recognize our 2011 Distinguished Service Award recipient, Anna Suk-Fong Lok, MD. The 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. This 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 AASLD.

Dr. Lok graduated from the Medical School at the University of Hong Kong. After completing internal medicine and GI training in Hong Kong, she pursued a hepatology fellowship in London under the late Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock. She is currently a Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of Clinical Hepatology at the University of Michigan.  

Dr. Lok served on the AASLD Governing Board from 2001 to 2003 as Councilor-at-large and as Associate Editor of HEPATOLOGY from 2001 to 2006. She has served on numerous AASLD committees such as Clinical Research, Annual Meeting Education, and Public Policy; and she has also served as an abstract reviewer. 

Dr. Lok has published numerous papers on viral hepatitis, authored more than 20 book chapters, and co-authored the AASLD Guidelines on Hepatitis B. She has consistently been invited to speak and moderate at The Liver Meeting® for courses such as the Postgraduate Course, State-of-the-Art lectures, Clinical Research and Career Development Workshops, and Single Topic Conferences.

Dr. Lok has mentored AASLD Advanced/Transplant Hepatology fellows in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2011, and an NP/PA Clinical Hepatology fellow in 2006.  She cites her greatest pride and joy as helping patients with liver diseases to get better, and mentoring her 'children' -- fellows and faculty --- to become independently successful investigators.