W.D. Warren Lectureship, Dept. of Surgery, Emory University SOM

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Dr. W. Dean Warren was the Joseph Brown Whitehead Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery from 1971 until his death in 1989. Previously, he had been Professor and Chairman of Surgery at the University of Miami.

Dr. Warren was a leading investigator of portal hypertension for three decades and a co-originator of the distal splenorenal shunt. Leading by example, Dr. Warren instilled his own commitment to academic research in both the department and the residency, and his legacy remains in the vitality and pervasiveness of the department's research endeavors.

Dr. Warren was president of the American Surgical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Whipple Society, and the Society of University Chairmen. In 1986, he was installed as the 67th president of the American College of Surgeons. After his death, Dr. Warren's pioneering spirit was memorialized by the creation of the W. Dean Warren Scholars in Surgery program and the initiation in 1995 of the annual W. Dean Warren Lectureship.

W.D. Warren Lectureship Speakers 1995 – To Date
Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Date
F. Charles Brunicardi, MD	DeBakey/Bard Professor and Chair, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine	Leadership Principles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	9/3/09
Monica Morrow, MD	Chief, Breast Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Breast Conserving Therapy: Has the Promise Been Fulfilled?	9/25/08
Michael W. Mulholland, MD, PhD	Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan; Surgeon in Chief, University Hospital, University of Michigan Health System	Generational Change in Surgery	9/13/07
Bruce V. MacFadyen, MD	Professor and Moretz/Mansberger Distinguished Chair of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia	Transluminal Surgery: Should the Surgeon be Involved?	9/7/06
R. Daniel Beauchamp, MD	J.C. Foshee Distinguished Professor of Surgery; Chairman, Section of Surgical Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	Colorectal Cancer: Bench to Bedside	9/29/05
William G. Cance, MD	Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Florida School of Medicine	Challenges for the Academic Surgical Oncologist: Confronting the Biological limitations	9/30/04
William O. Richards, MD	Professor of Surgery, Director of Laparoendoscopic Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Vanderbilt University	Surgical Treatment of Achalasia Two Decades After Fellowship with W. Dean Warren, MD	9/18/03
Hardy W. Hendren, MD	Robert E. Gross Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Surgery Emeritus, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts	John Hunter: The First Academic Surgeon	9/19/02
Barbara L. Bass, MD	Professor of Surgery, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs and Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Director, Surgical Care Center, VA Maryland Health Care Center	Short Gut Syndrome: Clinical Issues, Laboratory Strategies	5/3/01
C. James Carrico, MD	Professor, Department of Surgery, Doris and Bryan Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Medical Science, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Trauma: A Clinical, Biologic and Public Health Challenge	10/5/00
Timothy Eberlein, MD	Bixby Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO	Surgery in the New Millennium	11/18/99
Layton F. Rikkers, MD	University of Wisconsin	Surgery for Variceal Bleeding: Sclerotherapy, Shunt, TIPS, or Transplant?	3/19/98
J. Michael Henderson, MD	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Distal Splenorenal Shunt: It's Impact On Portal Hypertension Over 30 Years	4/3/97
Thomas E. Starzl, MD	University of Pittsburgh	Allograft Acceptance and its Achievement	5/2/96
Tom R. DeMeester, MD	University of Southern California	The Epidemic of Barrett's Esophagus and its Surgical Implications	4/22/95

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