In 1990, the Canadian Liver Foundation, in partnership with the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), created the Sass-Kortsak Award to honour the late Dr. Sass-Kortsak who made tremendous contributions to the field of hepatology and did much to further the work of the Foundation. The award is presented every two years and the recipient is invited to lecture at the Canadian Digestive Diseases Week conference.
Past recipients of the award include:
1990 Dr. Claude C. Roy
1992 Dr. Irmin Sternlieb
1994 Dr. Daniel Alagille
1996 Dr. Alex Mowat (posthumously)
1998 Dr. William Balistreri
2000 Dr. Frederick J. Suchy
2002 Dr. Jean-Bernard Otte
2004 Dr. Andrée Rasquin
2006 Dr. David Perlmutter
2008 Dr. Milton Finegold
2010 Dr. Peter Whitington
