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AST Awards Richard N. Fine, M.D. 2008 Ernest Hodge Distinguished Achievement Award
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society of
Transplantation (AST) recently presented its highest award, the Ernest Hodge
Distinguished Achievement Award, to Richard N. Fine, M.D. at the American
Transplant Congress inToronto, Canada. The award recognizes a senior
investigator whose lifelong work has advanced the field of transplantation and
medicine and whose contributions to the field and the AST have been broad and
far-reaching.
Dr. Fine served the AST as president, secretary-treasurer and on the AST
board of directors as councilor-at-large. His contributions to the Society
have been numerous and invaluable.
Dr. Fine is Dean of the School of Medicine, the State University of New
York atStony Brook. He has distinguished himself on many levels, especially
in the field of pediatric and transplant nephrology. His contributions to
pediatric kidney transplantation are impressive. In the 1970s Dr. Fine and his
group made seminal contributions to the field of pediatric renal
transplantation on topics ranging from immunosuppression to post-transplant
complications. In the mid- 1980s, he recognized the profound effect on growth
in pediatric patients with renal insufficiency and pediatric renal transplant
recipients and the use of human growth hormones as an effective treatment of
this disorder.
He has served as editor of Pediatric Transplantation since 1997, as well
as president of the American Society for Pediatric Nephrology in 1985-1986. In
2003, he was awarded the American Academy of Pediatrics Henry L. Barnett Award
for Outstanding Teaching and Clinical Care for Children with Kidney Disease.
Dr. Fine was named vice chairman of clinical affairs in the Department of
Pediatrics at UCLA in 1985. He was appointed chairman ofStony Brook's
Department of Pediatrics in 1991, and has served in his current position since
2005.
Funding for the coveted Ernest Hodge Distinguished Achievement Award is
provided by Roche Laboratories and is named in honor of Dr. Ernest E. Hodge, a
physician and Roche employee who died in 2004 at the age of 52.
Previous recipients of the Ernest Hodge Distinguished Achievement Award
include: Drs. Phillip Halloran, Thomas Starzl, David Sachs, Jeffrey Bluestone,
Charles Carpenter, Ronald Guttman, Paul Terasaki, Nicholas Tilney, Israel
Penn, Lawrence Hunsicker, Terry Strom, Amir Tejani, Steve Rose, and Manikkam
Suthanthiran.
About AST
The American Society of Transplantation is an international organization
of transplant professionals dedicated to advancing the field of
transplantation through the promotion of research, education, advocacy, and
organ donation to improve patient care. The Society comprises more than 2,800
transplant physicians, surgeons and allied health professionals.
For more information about AST, please visit www.a-s-t.org.
Contact: Beth Drost
215.884.6499
SOURCE The American Society of Transplantation
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