The AASLD Distinguished Clinician Educator 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 2008 Distinguished Clinician Educator Award to Albert J Czaja, MD
Albert J. Czaja, MD is professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1968, and he completed an NIH fellowship in hepatology at the Mayo Clinic with W.H.J. Summerskill in 1977. Dr. Czaja joined the Mayo Clinic staff in 1977. He received the Presidential Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service in the US Army Medical Corps in 1976; the Fiterman Award for distinguished clinical investigation in hepatology in 1997; the Henry S. Plummer Distinguished Physician Award at the Mayo Clinic in 2006; and the Distinguished Clinician Award of the AGA in 2007.
Distinguished Clinician Educator Awardees
2008 Albert J Czaja, MD