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 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award to Nelson Fausto, MD
Professor Nelson Fausto is a graduate of the University of São Paulo School of Medicine, and trained in pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine.
He joined the Program in Medicine at Brown University in 1967 and was appointed as the founding Chair of the Department of Pathology in 1983. In 1994 he became Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington. Dr. Fausto is known for his research on liver regeneration, stem cells and hepatic cell lineages, pathogenesis of Hepatocellular carcinoma, and the development of human and mouse hepatocyte culture systems. Dr. Fausto is co-editor of Robbins and Cotran’s Pathologic Basis of Disease and of Arias The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology. He was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Pathology from 1992-2001.
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