Here are the award winners.
Julius Friedenwald Medal
• Robert Sandler, MD, MPH, AGAF, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
William Beaumont Prize
• C. Richard Boland, MD, AGAF, Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas)
Distinguished Educator Awards
• Patrick Kamath, MD, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
• Charles Melbern Wilcox, MD, MSPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Distinguished Mentor Awards
• Susan Henning, PhD, AGAF, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
• M. Bishr Omary, MD, PhD, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Distinguished Clinician Awards
• Academic practice: William Chey, MD, AGAF, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
• Private practice: Louis Y. Korman, MD, Metropolitan Gastroenterology Group (Washington, D.C.)
Research Service Award
• Jay Hoofnagle, MD, National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)
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