Vanguard Award history

The Vanguard Awards have been instituted to recognize two outstanding ILTS members who are age 42 or younger.

Past Recipients:

• 2020: Amelia Hessheimer, MD; Harvey Chen, MD
• 2019: David Nasralla, BMBCh, MA(Oxon), MRCS; Yoshihiro Ono, MD, PhD
• 2018: Karim Halazun, MD; Kazunari Sasaki, MD; Nicolas Goldaracena, MD
• 2017: Gonzalo Sapisochin, MD; Guangxiang Gu, MD
• 2016: Prashant Bhangui, MBBS, MS; Cheng-Maw Ho, MD, PhD; Shinichiro Yokota, MD, PhD
• 2015: Christian Toso, MD, PhD; Alina Allen, MD;
• 2014: Alessandro Vitale, MD, PhD; Osamu Yoshida, MD, PhD
• 2013: Julie K. Heimbach, MD; Haofeng Ji, MD
• 2012: Armin Goralczyk, MD; Naohisa Kuriyama, MD, PhD
• 2011: Jennifer C. Lai, MD; Sonali Joshi, MBBS
• 2010: Jason Y. Rhee, PhD; Koji Hashimoto, MD
• 2009: Constantino Fondevila, MD, PhD