Previous Speakers at the Jack H. Berman Lecture

1st: Eugene Braunwald, MD

Vice President for Academic Programs
Partners Health Care System
Distinguished Hershey Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Academic
Programs, Harvard Medical School
October 2, 2000

2nd: Adrian Hill, BM

Professor of Human Genetics
Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics
University of Oxford
Oxford, England
October 22, 2001

3rd: Michael Welsh, MD

Roy J. Carver Professor of Medicine
And Physiology and Biophysics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
University of Iowa College of Medicine
December 10, 2002

4th: Martin Abeloff, MD

Director, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University
May 16, 2003

5th: Lee Goldman, MD, MPH

Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professor and Chair
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
School of Medicine and Chairman
Department of Medicine
University of California-San Francisco
May 11, 2004

6th: Elizabeth Nabel, MD

Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
National Institute of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
May 3, 2005

7th: Jay Hoofnagle, MD

Director, Liver Disease Research Branch
Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
May 1, 2006

8th: Robert Roberts, MD, FRCPC, FACC

President, Chief Executive and
Chief Scientific Officer
University of Ottowa Heart Institute
Ottowa, Canada
May 8, 2007

9th: Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD

Director, Mount Siani Heart
Director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener
Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josee and
Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health,
Richard Gorlin, M.D. Heart Research Foundation Professor
The Mount Siani Medical Center
October 2, 2007

10th: Richard Lifton, MD, PhD

Sterling Professor and Chairman
Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
April 28, 2009

11th: Charles Dinarello, MD

Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University if Colorado School of Medicine
May 18, 2010

12th: Max Wicha, MD

Professor of Medicine
Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Distinguished Professor of Oncology
University of Michigan

 

13th: Griffin Rodgers, MD, MACP

Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease
National Institutes of Health
May 2013

 

14th: Sidney Smith, Jr., MD

Professor of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chief, Division of Cardiology, UNC-Chapel Hill
May 2015

 

15th: Gary Gibbons, MD

Director, National Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood
National Institute of Health
July 2016

 

16th: Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Chief of Medicine,
Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor
and Vice-Chair of Medicine
University of California San Francisco
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
November 2017

 

17th: Timothy J. Ley, MD

Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Chair in Oncology
Professor of Medicine and Genetics
Director, Section of Stem Cell Biology
Associate Director, Cancer Genomics,
McDonnell Genome Institute
October 2017

 

18th: Sandra M. Swain, MD, FACP, FASCO

Associate Dean for Research Development
Professor of Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center
November 2019

 

19th: Reshma Jagsi, MD, PhD

Newman Family Professor
Deputy Chair of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan
November 2020

 

20th: Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD

Department of Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
MVA Executive Director, Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance
February 2022