2024 | Wayne A.I. Frederick, M.D., Howard University, Washington, DC |
2023 | Steph Fauquier, Race with Steph, Toronto, Ontario |
2022 | Henry Panion, III, Ph.D., University Professor of Music and Director of Music Technology, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Caitlin Edwards, violinist; and Dreams of Hope documentary |
2019 | Rustin Moore, D.V.M., Ph.D., Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, and Ruth Stanton Chair in Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio |
2017 | Julian Bailes, M.D., Surgical Director, NorthShore Neurological Institute, & Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, Illinois |
2016 | Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Biological Sciences Division, Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Illinois |
2015 | No speaker |
2014 | No speaker |
2013 | Lord Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Alresford, Hampshire, United Kingdom |
2012 | No speaker |
2011 | Haile T. Debas, MD, University of California San Francisco |
2010 | No speaker |
2009 | No speaker |
2008 | Alfred G. Gilman, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
2007 | Dr. Charles H. Webb, Jr., Emeritus Dean of the School of Music of the University of Indiana |
2006 | Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., Geneticist |
2005 | George McGee, Forest General Hospital, Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
2004 | No speaker |
2003 | Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda |
2002 | Dr. Richard G. A. Feachem, Director of the Institute for Global Health, San Francisco |
2001 | No speaker |
2000 | John W. McGill, M.D., President, American Chapter, Doctors Without Borders |
1999 | No speaker |
1998 | James Humes, Author |
1997 | Story Musgrave, M.D., Astronaut, NASA |
1996 | David McCullough, Author |
1995 | Nancy Landon Kassebaum, U.S. Senator, Kansas |
1994 | Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian, Past Librarian of Congress |
1993 | Witold Rybczynski, Professor of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal |
1992 | James C. Thompson, M.D., President American Surgical Association |
1991 | Norman Sherry, Author |
1990 | Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services |
1989 | Tom Brokaw, News Commentator |
1988 | Galen Rowell, Adventure Photographer |
1987 | No speaker |
1986 | David Brinkley, News Commentator |
1985 | Stanley Spector, Ph.D., Professor of Chinese and International Studies, Washington University |
1984 | Dr. Steven Muller, President, Johns Hopkins University |
1983 | No speaker |
1982 | Dr. Gert H. Brieger, Department of the History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco |
1981 | Dr. Simon Ramo, Co-founder and Director Emeritus, TRW, Inc. |
1980 | Gilbert Cant, Founder, Medicine Section, Time Magazine |
1979 | Fred L. Hartley, Chairman and President, Union Oil Company |
1978 | H. Ross Perot, Industrialist and Financier |
1977 | Calvin H. Plimpton, President, Amherst College |
1976 | Federal Judge James Plemon Coleman |
1975 | Rocke H. Robertson, M.D., President, McGill University |
1974 | Dr. Andrew Holt, President, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
1973 | Lord Arthur Porritt, F.R.C.S. |
1972 | Merlin K. DuVal, M.D., Secretary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare |
1971 | Irvine H. Page, M.D., Chairman, Division of Research, Cleveland Clinic |
1970 | Mr. Harry Schwartz, Medical Writer, New York Times |
1969 | Dr. Walter Consuele Langsam, President, University of Cincinnati |
1968 | Fred R. Harris, U.S. Senator, Oklahoma |
1967 | Berton Roueche, Medical Mystery Writer of Eleven Blue Men, New York |
1966 | Dr. Fred Stone, Director, National Institutes of General Medical Sciences |
1965 | John Weaver, Ph.D., President, University of Wisconsin |
1964 | Dr. William Bean |
1963 | Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University |
1962 | Dwight David Eisenhower, President, United States of America |