EASL Recognition Award Recipient 2019: Prof. Vincenzo Mazzaferro

As underlined by Primo Levi who, like Vincenzo Mazzaferro, studied at the University of Turin, exceptional stories and achievements are a chain of exceptional events, many of which are not under our control.1 But the readers of the first and the friends of the second must add to this the ingredient of the exceptional attention and depth with which ordinary events and encounters are lived. Their decency – common to the writer and the surgeon and verging on shyness – does not allow them to mention it.

Source: Journal of Hepatology - April 10, 2019 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Pietro Majno-Hurst Tags: Editorial Source Type: research