This lecture was established in 1946 to honor Franklin H. Martin, MD, FACS, founder of the American College of Surgeons, and his wife, Isabelle Hollister Martin. Starting in 2008, the Martin Memorial Lecture became the keynote lecture at the Opening Ceremony of the Clinical Congress and is sponsored by the American Urological Association (AUA). The AUA previously sponsored the AUA Lecture scheduled in this time slot.
Nominations for this lecture come from the College’s Honors Committee with consultation by the Advisory Council for Urology.
Year |
Lecturer |
Lecture Title |
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2024
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Lester Martinez-Lopez
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Combat Trauma: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges for Surgery
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2023
|
Gordon L. Telford
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Franklin H. Martin, MD, FACS: From Rural Boyhood to Distinguished Surgeon
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2022
|
David B. Hoyt
|
Reflections
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2021
|
Anthony S. Fauci
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COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges
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2020
|
Norman (Ned) E. Sharpless
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Assuring Progress in Cancer Research During Challenging Times
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2019
|
Nina A. Totenberg
|
The Health of the Supreme Court
|
2018
|
Francis S. Collins
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NIH: The National Institutes of Hope
|
2017
|
David R. Williams
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Personal Best: Reflections of a Physician Astronaut on Leadership and Teamwork
|
2016
|
Delos M. Cosgrove
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Doctors in Distress: The Burnout Crisis
|
2015
|
Paul E. Farmer
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Addressing Unmet Surgical Need: The Role of Academic Surgery
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2014
|
W. Marston Linehan
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Targeting the Genetic and Metabolic Basis of Cancer
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2013
|
David McCullough
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Something New, Something Old, With Renewed Force: The Role of History and Innovation in Medicine
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2012
|
Michael R. Harrison
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Surgical Innovation=What If + Why Not?
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2011
|
C. David Naylor
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Too Big to Fail? Health Care Reform in the U.S. and Canada
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2010
|
Anthony Atala
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Regenerative Medicine: New Approaches to Health Care
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2009
|
Glenn D. Steele, Jr.
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Re-engineering Systems of Care – Surgical Leadership
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2008
|
Peter Neupert
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Translating the Power of Software for Optimal Patient Care
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2007
|
Prof. Sir Richard G.A. Feacham
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Fighting the Great Pandemics: Challenges and Opportunities
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2006
|
Catherine DeAngelis
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Scientific Conflict of Interest - Facts and Friction
|
2005
|
Donald Kennedy
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Science and Politics: How Rich a Mixture Do We Want?
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2004
|
Leonard M. Shlain
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: Brain Lateralization and Its Effect on History, Religion & Gender Relations
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2003
|
Richard L. Cruess
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Professionalism, The Profession, and Public Policy
|
2002
|
Seymour I. Schwartz
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From Mainz to Modem with Martin in the Middle
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2001
|
David B. Hoyt & Donald E. Fry
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Unconventional Civilian Disasters: What the Surgeon Should Know
|
2000
|
Harold T. Shapiro
|
High Anxiety: The Interface of Ethics, Biomedicine and Public Policy
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1999
|
Sir Miles Horsfall Irving
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Health Technology Assessment: The Way Forward for Surgery
|
1998
|
Uwe E. Reinhardt
|
Who Will “Manage” Health Care in the New Millennium?
|
1997
|
Senator William H. Frist
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Operating Outside the Theatre: New Challenges for Leadership
|
1996
|
Mary-Claire King
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From Families with Breast Cancer: Clues for New Therapies
|
1995
|
John Rowe
|
Controlling Health Care Expenditures at the End of Life
|
1994
|
Philip Leder
|
The New Genetics: Hype and Hope
|
1993
|
W. French Anderson
|
Human Gene Therapy
|
1992
|
Louis C. Lasagna
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Is Medicine the New Dismal Science?
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1991
|
Robert M. Zollinger
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Let's Improve Our Image
|
1990
|
J. Michael Bishop
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Oncogenes: Bench to Bedside
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1989
|
J. W. Marriott, III
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Mayo Cares
|
1988
|
Albert R. Jonsen
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Aesculapius as American Doctor
|
1987
|
No Lecture
|
(Invited lecturer unable to attend.)
|
1986
|
C. Rollins Hanlon
|
The Delusions of Unity
|
1985
|
Hon. Jeane Kirkpatrick
|
(No formal title submitted. The lecture dealt with current U.S.-international relations.)
|
1984
|
Eli Ginzberg
|
American Medicine: The Power Shift
|
1983
|
Alistair Cooke
|
An Hour (or less) of American Medical Humor
|
1982
|
A. Bartlett Giamatti
|
The Role of the Federal Government in Higher Education
|
1981
|
Steven Muller
|
Higher Learning in America: For Whom and for What?
|
1980
|
Alton Ochsner
|
To Our Founder, Franklin H. Martin, with Reflections and Concerns
|
1979
|
Hon. Paul Rogers
|
Government in Health: Too Much or Too Little?
|
1978
|
John Lister
|
Medicine, Politics and Society
|
1977
|
Theodore Cooper
|
Federal Policy and Medical Practice
|
1976
|
Alexander Heard
|
Public Policy and the Paradoxes of Plenty
|
1975
|
J. Englebert Dunphy
|
Look Back for Tomorrow
|
1974
|
Rene Dubos
|
Medical Utopias and the Art of Living
|
1973
|
Harry Schwartz
|
American Medicine after Watergate
|
1972
|
Governor Ronald Reagan
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Socialized Doctors Have Socialized Patients
|
1971
|
Philip Handler
|
Science and Societal Expectations
|
1970
|
Elliot L. Richardson
|
We Cannot Strive for Anything Less
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1969
|
George W. Beadle
|
Man's Inheritance: Biological and Cultural
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1968
|
William G. Pollard
|
The Earth as a Spaceship
|
1967
|
Senator Lister Hill
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That Magnificent Institution Called Surgery
|
1966
|
Howard Pyle
|
Safety - Preventive Medicine
|
1965
|
Alfred M. Gruenther
|
Where Do We Stand in this Troubled World?
|
1964
|
Werner Von Braun
|
Space - The New Challenge
|
1963
|
Lauris Norstad
|
Atlantic Alliance in Review and Prospect
|
1962
|
J. Irwin Miller
|
Where Do We Go from Here?
|
1961
|
Hyman G. Rickover
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Education in a Free Society
|
1960
|
Wendell M. Stanley
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Proved and Prospective Relationships Between Viruses and Cancer
|
1958
|
Leroy E. Burney
|
Physicians for Tomorrow
|
1957
|
Hon. Robert Cutler
|
Fusing Together of Disciplines
|
1956
|
Vannevar Bush
|
Professional Collaboration
|
1955
|
Grayson L. Kirk
|
Current Dilemmas for Doctors and Others
|
1954
|
Alan Gregg
|
Horizons at Half Century
|
1953
|
Sir James Paterson Ross
|
Science and Surgery
|
1952
|
Donald C. Balfour
|
Hippocratic Principles in the Evolution of Gastric Surgery
|
1951
|
Paul B. Magnuson
|
Remove Not the Ancient Landmark
|
1950
|
Sir Geoffrey Jefferson
|
Balance of Life and Death in Cerebral Lesions
|
1949
|
Sir James Learmonth
|
Collateral Circulation, Natural and Artificial
|
1948
|
Clarence Craford
|
Some Aspects of the Development of Intrathoracic Surgery
|
1947
|
Allen O. Whipple
|
Qualifications of the Surgeon and the Cancer Problem
|
1946
|
Edward D. Churchill
|
American Surgeon, A.U.S.
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