Elizabeth M. Brunt, MD, professor emerita of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Liver Pathology from the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society.
Brunt’s research has focused on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a common condition that can lead to end-stage liver damage. Among other accomplishments, she developed a scoring system based on microscopic evaluation of liver biopsy samples to assess the severity of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, which can progress to scarring and liver failure. The system came to be known as “the Brunt criteria.”
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