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Annual Report 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 www.aasld.org CONTENTS American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 2013 Annual Report AWARD RECIPIENTS: 2013 Research and Career Development Awards ..................................................... 2 2013 AASLD Abstract Awards ................................................................................... 5 VISION: 2013 Distinguished Award Recipients ....................................................................... 8 2013 AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar Resident Travel Award Program ................... 10 To Prevent and Cure Liver Disease TRAIN/EDUCATE: New Developments in Transplant Hepatology Training ........................................... 11 MISSION: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) ........................................................... 11 The Liver Meeting®................................................................................................... 11 To advance and disseminate Special Interest Groups (SIGs) ................................................................................ 14 Single Topic Conferences ........................................................................................ 14 the science and practice of Digestive Disease Week .......................................................................................... 15 LiverLearning® .......................................................................................................... 15 hepatology, and to promote liver AASLD Curriculum & Training (ACT) ........................................................................ 15 ACT-on-HCV ............................................................................................................. 15 health and quality patient care. Collaboration ........................................................................................................... 16 Journals ................................................................................................................... 17 Clinical Practice Guidelines ..................................................................................... 17 Online Expert Advice for Clinicians Treating Hepatitis C .......................................... 18 EFFECT: Public Policy ............................................................................................................ 19 FINANCIALS Financials ................................................................................................................ 22 GOVERNANCE: Governing Board ..................................................................................................... 24 Past Presidents ........................................................................................................ 25 AASLD Staff ............................................................................................................. 26 A ASLD 2013 Annual Report 1 2013 RESEARCH AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS RECIPIENTS AWARD The AASLD Research, Career Development, and Abstract Awards are the preeminent AASLD/Alpha-1 Foundation AASLD Sheila Sherlock Clinical awards for liver research and advanced hepatology training. In 2013, AASLD and The Liver Scholar Award and Translational Research AASLD Liver Research Fund committed over $2.4 million in funding for awards and A three-year basic science award of $225,000 Award in Liver Diseases AWARD RECIPIENTS AWARD fellowships. This level of funding represents the largest single commitment in support ($75,000/year) with a focus on alpha-1-antitrypsin This two-year clinical research and/or translational of liver research and advanced hepatology training by any professional organization. deficiency-associated liver disease. research award of $150,000 ($75,000/year) is intended This award was established in recognition of to foster career development for young investigators AASLD and the AASLD Liver Research Fund are able to provide funding at a critical the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Alpha-1 performing clinical and/or translational research in time in the careers of young investigators and other healthcare providers, which may Antitrypsin Deficiency. a liver-related area who have shown commitment to encourage them to pursue careers in hepatology. We support three types of Awards: excellence at an early stage in their research study. Andrew Chu, MD This award is named in honor of Dame Sheila Sherlock • Multi-Year Research Awards in Basic, Clinical, and Translational Research Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Pittsburgh, PA for her pioneering research and dedication to young MENTOR: David Perlmutter, MD research fellows which helped elevate hepatology to • One-Year Career Development Awards to encourage front- RESEARCH PROJECT: Mechanisms of action the discipline it is today. line providers to pursue specialized training in hepatology for autophagy enhancer drugs on alpha-1- antitrypsin deficiency-associated liver disease Monika A. Sarkar, MD, MAS • Abstract Awards which allow young investigators the opportunity to present AASLD gratefully acknowledges funding for the 2013 AASLD/ University of California, San Francisco their outstanding research to an international audience at The Liver Meeting® Alpha-1 Liver Scholar Award from Alpha-1 Foundation, and donors San Francisco, CA to the New Challenges-New Solutions Campaign and The AASLD MENTOR: Marion Peters, MD Liver Research Fund. RESEARCH PROJECT: Racial/ethnic Differences in The AASLD awards program has a proven track record of success. Fibrosis Progression in HIV/HCV Co-Infected Women Since 2000, AASLD has funded over $32 million in awards. AASLD Career Development AASLD gratefully acknowledges funding for the 2013 Sheila in Liver Transplantation Sherlock Clinical and Translational Research Award from Genentech and donors to the New Challenges-New Solutions AASLD Liver Scholar Award Leela L. Paris, PhD In Memory of the University of Michigan Campaign and The AASLD Liver Research Fund. A three-year basic science award of $225,000 Indiana University Transplant Team Indianapolis, IN ($75,000/year) that is designed to bridge the gap AASLD Clinical and Translational MENTOR: A. Joseph Tector, PhD A two-year award of $90,000 ($45,000/year) designed between completion of research training and attaining RESEARCH PROJECT: The study of SIRP and ASGR1 to foster career development for an individual Research Award in Liver Diseases status as an independent research scientist and in platelet phagocytosis by the porcine liver performing clinical and/or translational research in This two-year clinical research and/or translational encourage young investigators to pursue a career the field of liver transplantation and who has shown research award of $150,000 ($75,000/year) is intended in liver-related research. The additional research Wei Qiu, PhD commitment to excellence in the field at an early stage to foster career development for young investigators experience provided by this award enables young Loyola University Chicago in their career. performing clinical and/or translational research in Chicago, IL researchers to successfully compete for research a liver-related area who have shown commitment to MENTOR: Tarun Patel, PhD This award was established to honor the Transplant grants from national sources, particularly the National excellence at an early stage in their research study. RESEARCH PROJECT: Repress HCC Survival Flight Team whose transport crashed over Institutes of Health (NIH). development by inhibiting PUMA Lake Michigan on June 4, 2007 on the return leg of an Brittany N. Bohinc, MD Baran A. Ersoy, PhD AASLD gratefully acknowledges funding for the 2013 Liver organ procurement mission. This award honors those Scholars from AbbVie, Genentech, Merck, and donors to the Duke University Brigham and Women’s Hospital New Challenges-New Solutions Campaign and The AASLD Liver dedicated to life-saving organ transplantation. Durham, NC Boston, MA Research Fund. MENTORS: Anna Mae Diehl, MD, and MENTOR: David Cohen, MD, PhD Michael G. Hughes, Jr., MD Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH RESEARCH PROJECT: Molecular control of hepatic insulin University of Louisville School of Medicine RESEARCH PROJECT: Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Is signaling by phosphatidylcholine transfer protein Louisville, KY Associated With Systemic and Hepatic Hypothyroidism MENTOR: Craig J. McClain, MD AASLD gratefully acknowledges funding for the 2013 Clinical Cara T. Pager, PhD RESEARCH PROJECT: Role of Envelope and Translational Research Award from Merck and donors to the Protein Glycosylation Sites in Hepatitis University at Albany, State University of New York New Challenges-New Solutions Campaign and The AASLD Liver C Viral Infection of Liver Allografts Research Fund. Albany, NY MENTOR: Peter Ells, MD AASLD gratefully acknowledges funding for the 2013 Clinical and Translational Research Award from Astellas USA Foundation and RESEARCH PROJECT: The Role of RCK/p54 donors to the New Challenges-New Solutions Campaign and The in hepatitis C virus gene expression AASLD Liver Research Fund. 2013 Liver Scholar Awards Recipients 2 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LIVER DISEASES A ASLD 2013 Annual Report 3 AWARD RECIPIENTS AWARD AASLD Advanced/Transplant 2013 AASLD Abstract Awards Hepatology Fellowship Provides $60,000 in salary and benefit support for Fellow Research Award Student Research Award AWARD RECIPIENTS AWARD gastroenterology (GI) fellows pursuing an additional full-year of training focused on patient care in 2013 NP/PA Recipients A $1,000 award presented
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