The Luxon Family Fund for Emerging Hepatology Scholars
The AASLD Foundation is pleased to introduce The Luxon Family Fund for Emerging Hepatology Scholars. This new AASLD Foundation Fund will support one annual Emerging Liver Scholars Award, thereby ensuring long-term financial resources to encourage future hepatology leaders, and to attract the best and brightest physicians to pursue hepatology as their career choice.
Created in 2012, the AASLD Foundation’s Emerging Liver Scholars Program promotes the study of hepatology among residents who have the potential for a career in academic medicine AND who haven’t yet determined their long-term career goals. This program, targeted toward medical, surgical and pediatric residents and their mentors, provides opportunities to attend The Liver Meeting® and participate in other AASLD activities throughout their training. The program is supported by AASLD Foundation as part of its mission to inspire and invest in the next generation of hepatologists. Since inception, close to 200 scholars have graduated from this valuable program. A vast majority of the graduates remain dedicated to a career in hepatology.
The Luxons, along with their friends, John and Diane Goody, have contributed significant gifts to establish this vital source of stability for the Emerging Liver Scholars initiative. The fund is already at 75% of the goal of $100,000, the amount needed to sustain the Award in perpetuity.
Dr. Luxon has been an integral force in shaping the careers of some of the finest hepatologists in the United States. He’s had a tremendous impact on his colleagues in medicine, too. And, of course his patients hold Dr. Luxon in highest regard. Whether you are a colleague, trainee, mentee, or even a patient of Dr. Luxon’s – Dr. Bruce Bacon, AASLD Foundation’s Chair, invites you to consider a gift to honor Dr. Luxon. A gift to this Fund will be a meaningful way to acknowledge his impact on developing hepatologists and academic hepatology leaders.
To learn more about the AASLD Foundation and the Tomorrow’s Cures Campaign, contact AASLD Foundation Director of Development, Julie Wolfe, at jwolfe@aasld.org or 703-299-9766.
