Call for Nominations: IHPBA Distinguished Service Award 2025

The IHPBA Distinguished Service Award is the pre-eminent award of the IHPBA, recognising the work of an individual who has provided leadership and made significant contributions to the field of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery as well as to the IHPBA itself.  The selection of the recipient for the medallion is based on:

 - the individual’s contribution to HPB surgery in the Americas Region

 - his/her contribution to the IHPBA

 - is preferably awarded to an individual who has retired or is about to retire from active HPB practice

 - current active membership in the IHPBA would be expected, but is not mandatory.

The award will not be given posthumously.

Individuals can be nominated more than once but they cannot self-nominate.

The Council will select from the nominees by the end of November 2024. 

Award Presentation

The award will be made during the AHPBA Annual Meeting. 

The awardee should ideally attend the congress. 

The presentation will be made by the President of the IHPBA including a citation that highlights the awardee’s major accomplishments and contributions.  The awardee will receive the engraved gold plated medallion.  The awardee will be expected to respond briefly to the award.

The award will be highlighted in the programme of AHPBA Annual Meeting.   The citation and photograph of the awardee will be published in HPB journal as a news item from IHPBA, on the IHPBA website. 

The nomination should be accompanied by the following.

1. A nomination letter outlining the nominee's achievements and merits for this award in the form of a citation (maximum 500 words) that can be used for the presentation.
2. A letter of support from two or three other IHPBA members in good standing
3. The nominee's CV
4. A high-resolution photograph of the nominee

Nominations should be sent by email to awards@ihpba.org 

The deadline for nominations is 14 October 2024

Professor Rowan Parks, Secretary General, IHPBA

Published on Friday 23rd August 2024