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