WCMS Foundation Initiative
Beaumont Lectureship
An annual lectureship series advancing medical knowledge and professional development for Wayne County phsicians.
About the Beaumont Lectureship
The Beaumont Lecture of the Wayne County Medical Society of Southeast Michigan is given in honor of William Beaumont, MD (1785-1853), whom fate presented with a remarkable opportunity to add to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion. The lectures have been presented annually since 1922, and we recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of this annual event.
William Beaumont Lecture — 100th Anniversary, 2022
Beaumont Lectures - 1922 to 2022
One hundred years of distinguished lectures presented annually by the Wayne County Medical Society
* Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology
** WCMSSM Member
| 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 | Dr. 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 | Hypersplenism — 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 | Arteriosclerosis: 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 | Prophylaxis against the Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Newborn | Dr. Goran E. Enhorning |
| 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 O. 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 Genome | 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: It's All About the Background… | Dr. Thomas Meade |
| 2008 | Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma | Dr. Gerard M. Doherty |
| 2009 | Computer Assisted Surgery: Lessons Learned Over 5000 Operations and Future Prospects | Dr. Mani Menon** |
| 2010 | Reforming Cardiovascular Health Care in the United States — Why, What, When and How | Dr. Kim Eagle |
| 2011 | The Importance of the Tumor Microenvironment in Cancer Progression | Dr. John E. Niederhuber |
| 2012 | Basic and Translational Aspects of Angiogenesis | Dr. Napoleone Ferrara |
| 2013 | Emerging Science and Technology for Medicine | Dr. Greg Auner |
| 2014 | From Bench to Bedside: Current and Future Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Dr. Peter D. Higgins |
| 2015 | Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Perpetual Challenge to Global Health | Dr. Marcus Zervos** |
| 2016 | Optimizing treatment of Parkinson's disease: When simpler is better | Dr. J. Eric Ahlskog |
| 2017 | Small RNAs play big roles: microRNAs towards a new era for the management of cancer and cancer immunotherapy | Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi |
| 2018 | Pain and Opioid Management: Safely Using the CDC Guidelines | Dr. Carl Christensen |
| 2019 | Autism Spectrum Disorders an Overview of Evidenced-Based Treatments | Jill Matson, MSN, RN; Mariana Frag, Med BCBA; Maria Vanberkum |
| 2020 | COVID-19: Where are we and where are we going? | Dr. Louis Saravolatz** |
| 2021 | The Battle Against Acute Myocardial Infarction: Michigan Connection | Dr. William O'Neill** |
| 2022 | The History of Medicine — 100th Anniversary | Dr. Joel Howell |
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