Henry Rosenberg, M.D., will receive the ASA Distinguished Service Award (DSA) at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2015 annual meeting in San Diego. The DSA is the “highest tribute the Society can pay to an ASA member. It may be given for outstanding clinical, educational or scientific achievement, contribution to the specialty and/or exemplary service to the Society.” First awarded in 1945, the DSA recognizes the unique contributions made by the recipient to the advancement of the specialty and to ASA that transform the way we practice and progress the specialty of anesthesiology. The criteria mentioned above and a list of previous recipients may be found on the ASA website (asahq.org) by clicking the “About ASA” link, then “ASA Governance and Committees” and finally “Distinguished Service Award Recipients.”
One of the challenges in describing Dr. Henry Rosenberg’s contributions to our specialty is his habit of sharing the credit for so...