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The WCMSSM Annual Beaumont Lecturers

Year           Title                                                                             Speaker

1922           Inflammation                                                                 Dr. W.G. MacCallum

1923           Insulin                                                                           Drs.  J.J.R. MacLeod & F.B. Banting*

1924           Liver                                                                             Drs.  Charles G.Heyd & Ward J. McNeal         

1925           Thyroid Gland                                                                Drs.  Charles H. Mayo & Henry W. Plummer

1926           The Alimentary Tract                                                      Dr. A.J. Carlson      

1927           Hormones                                                                      Dr. Charles R. Stockard       

1928           Human Constitution                                                        Dr. George Draper

1929           Function of the Kidney                                                    Dr. A. Newton Richards

1930           Behavior Patterns of Alimentary Tract                              Dr. T. Wingate Todd

1931           Causation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Cancer                Dr. James Ewing

1932           Role of Amino Acids in the Animal Organism                     Dr. Howard B. Lewis

1933           Some Modern Extensions of Beaumont’s Studies on Alexis St. Martin

                                                                                                      Dr. W.B. Cannon

1934           Some Functions of the Cerebral Cortex                            D. J.F. Fulton

1935           The Origin and Nature of Human Handicaps                      Dr. Lewellys F. Barker

1936           Physiologic Hematology                                                  Dr. Charles F. Doan

1937           Recent Advances in Nutritional Research                          Dr. E.V. McCollum

1938           Physiology of the Anterior Pituitary                                  Dr. Herbert M. Evans

1939           The Specific Therapy of the Pneumonias                           Dr. Jesse G.M. Bullowa

1940           Principles of Surgical Care, Shock and Other Problems      Dr. Alfred Blalock

1941           The Coagulation of the Blood and its Relation to Hemorrhagic Diseases

                                                                                                      Dr. Armand J. Quick

1942           Renal Lithiasis                                                                Dr. Charles C. Higgins

1943           Contributions of American Army Medical Officers to Medicine

                                                                                                      Dr. Edgar Erskine Hume       

1944           Hematogenous Osteomyelitis                                           Dr. Frank D. Dickson

1945           Modern Concepts of Intestinal Infection                            Dr. J.A. Bargen

1946           Surgical Treatment for Abnormalities of the Heart and Great Vessels

                                                                                                      Dr. Robert E. Gross

1947           Diabetes–Past, Present and Future                                   Dr. Charles H. Best*

1948           Advances in Knowledge of Thyroid Function                      Dr. James H. Means

1949           Changing Trends in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Uterus and Cervix

                                                                                                      Dr. Joe V. Meigs

1950           Metabolic Bone Diseases                                                 Dr. I. Snapper

1951           Current Concepts of Bone Metabolism and Endocrines and their Clinical Application to Bone Metabolism

                                                                                                      Dr. Ephraim Shorr

1952           Hyperslenism - A Clinical Evaluation                                 Dr. Cyrus Sturgis

1953           Physiological Methods in Clinical Practice                          Dr. Wm.  S. Middleton

1954           The Physiological Diagnosis of Pulmonary Disease             Dr. Julius Comroe

1955           Causal Factors in Cancer of the Lung                               Dr. Carl V. Weller

1956           Biological Cycling and Radioactive Materials                      Dr. Stafford Warren

1957           Beaumont as a Surgeon and His Influence on the Evolution of Surgery of the Stomach

                                                                                                      Dr. Frederick Coller

1958           Physiology of Open Cardiac Surgery: Hypothermia and Extracorporeal Circulation

                                                                                                      Dr. Frank Goilan

1959           Immunity to Virus Disease, and Virus Variation                 Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr.

1960           Pulmonary Changes Induced by Inhaled Substances, Pathologic Cardiopathies of Occupational Origin

                                                                                                      Dr. Arthur Vorwald  

1961           The Pluricausal Cardiopathies                                          Dr. Hans Selye

1962           Changing Perspectives on the Genetic Effects of Radiation Dr. James Neel

1963           Recent Advances in Experimental and Clinical Organ Homotransplantation

                                                                                                      Dr. David Hume

1964           Artheroscierosis: A Ubiquitous and Ancient Disease of Living Things

                                                                                                      Dr. Albert Lansing

1965           Rare Diseases and Lesions: Their Contributions to Clinical Medicine

                                                                                                      Dr. William B. Bean

1966           Prothrombin in Enzymology, Thrombosis and Hemophilia   Dr. Walter H. Seegers

1967           Primary Aldosteronism (Hypokalemic and Normokalemic), a Curable Form of Hypertension

                                                                                                      Dr. Jerome W. Conn

1968           Reaching for the Mind in the Depth of the Brain                 Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado

1969           Transplantation of the Human Heart                                 Dr. Denton A. Cooley

1970           Calcitonin – A New Hormone Involved in Calcium Regulation – and Bone Metabolism

                                                                                                      Dr. D. Harold Copp  

1971           The Influences of Pancreatic Tumors of the Stomach         Dr. Robert M. Zollinger

1972           Head Injuries from Antiquity to Present                            Dr. Elisha S. Gurdujian**

1973           Phophylaxis against the Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Newborn

                                                                                                      Dr. Goran E. Enhoming

1974           The Physician in Space                                                   Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin

1975           An Immunologic Approach in Neoplasia                            Dr. Robert A. Good

1976           Two Centuries of American Medicine                                Dr. Dwight E. Harken

1977           Esophageal Surgery in Children: Contributions of Michigan Surgeons

                                                                                                      Dr. Conrad R. Lam**

1978           Peptic Ulcers – Then and Now                                          Dr. Howard M. Spiro

1979           Medical Ethics in the Present Milieu                                   Dr. Tom E. Nesbitt

1980           Restriction Enzymes as Tools for Genetic Research            Dr. Hamilton 0. Smith*

1981           Radioimmunoassay in Clinical Medicine                            Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow*

1982           Alexis St. Martin Re-examined– ­Recent work on Gastric Mucosal Damage

                                                                                                      Dr. Horace W. Davenport

1983           The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Genone                      Dr. Victor A. McKusick

1984           Transplantation in Diabetic Patients                                  Dr. John S. Najarian

1985           Lyme Disease – A Newly Discovered Spirochetal Illness     Dr. Allen C. Steere, Jr.

1986           The Biology of the Hepatitis B. Virus                                 Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg*     

1987           Reflections on the Thymus Gland                                     Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge

1988           Human Retroviruses: Causes of Cancer, Some Neurologic Diseases and the AIDS Pandemic

                                                                                                      Dr. Robert C. Gallo

1989           Assisted Reproduction and the Meaning of Family              Dr. Howard W. Jones, Jr.

1990           Breaking the Barrier of Childhood Deafness                      Dr. William F. House

1991           Another Michigan Window – Human Skin Window               Dr. John W. Rebuck**

1992           Cardiology: Then and Now                                              Dr. Richard J. Bing

1993           Current Status of Gene Therapy                                      Dr. William N. Kelley

1994           Quo Vadis?  The Role of Government in Research Ethics: Past, Present and Future

                                                                                                      Dr. John C. Fletcher

1995           The Academic Medical Center in the Era of Health Care Reform

                                                                                                      Dr. Robert G. Petersdorf

1996           The Role of Computerized Medical Records & the Internet in the Future of Medical Practice

                                                                                                      Dr. Clement J. McDonald

1997           Advances in the Treatment of Difficult to Treat Cancers     Dr. Vainutis Vaitkevivius**

1998           Neuroscience and the Paradigm Shift in Psychiatry            Dr. Joseph Coyle

1999           From Cardiac Transplantation to Limited Access Cardiac Surgery: A Saga

                                                                                                      Dr. Denton A. Cooley

2000           Space Flight from a Physician’s Perspective                      Dr. Daniel T. Barry

2001           Complementary & Alternative Medicine: In Search of The Evidence     

                                                                                                      Dr. Stephen E. Straus

2002           Using Chemotherapy in Low Doses to More Effectively Treat Cancer

                                                                                                      Dr. Robert Kerbel

2003           Therapeutic Applications of Genetic Engineering                Dr. James M. Wilson

2004           Sensory Substitution for Vision Based on Late Brain Plasticity

                                                                                                      Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita 

2005           Synthetic Prions, Mad Cows, and the Struggle between Heresy and Orthodoxy in Science

                                                                                                      Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner

2006           From Bench to Bedside: The Story of TNF Inhibitors          Dr. Jan T. Vilcek

2007           Seeing is Believing: Its All About the Background...           Dr. Thomas Meade

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