the joHN sNOW lecture
The John Snow Memorial Lecture was introduced in 1958 following a proposal by
C Langton Hewer to mark the centenary of John Snow's death. Initially the Lecturer received a cash prize but since 1967 a bronze medal has also been presented.
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1958
George Edwards, Consultant Anaesthetist, St George's Hospital, London “John Snow MD”
1959
W Grey Walter, Scientific Consultant, Burden Neurological Institute, Bristol “The Control of Consciousness”
1960
Ralph Stevenson, GCMG Diplomat “From the Mediterranean to the Far East and Back”
1961
Erskine Childers, Minister for Power and Transport for the Republic of Ireland, later President of Ireland “The Irish Heritage”
1962
Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Professor of Medicine, University of Liverpool “John Snow and his Contemporaries”
1963
Lord James of Rusholm, Vice Chancellor of York University, Educationalist “The Education of the Scientist”
1964
William Mushin, Professor of Anaesthesia, University of Wales “Craft and Intellect”
1965
Derrick Dunlop, Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh “The Evaluation of Drugs”
1966
John Wolfenden, Chairman, University Grants Commission, Educationalist “Some Problems of Medical Education”
1967
Ian Fraser, Senior Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast “John Snow and his Surgical Friends”
1968
No lecture
1969
Geoffrey Organe, Professor of Anaesthesia, Westminster Hospital, London “Anaesthesia 1939”
1970
Henry Miller, Professor of Neurology and Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne “Medical Education and Medical Research”
1971
Melville Arnott, Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham “The Pulmonary Circulation”
1972
Lord Robens of Woldingham, Chairman of the National Coal Board “The Lesson of John Snow”
1973
Dorothy Hodgkin, Chancellor of the University of Bristol “Science, One Subject”
1974
William Armstrong, Chairman of the Midland Bank, head of the Home Civil Service 1968-1974 “The Civil Service and Medicine from John Snow to the Present Time”
1975
Alec Merrison, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol “Doctor and Patient, the Regulation of the Profession”
1976
Keith Simpson, Emeritus Professor of Forensic Medicine in the University of London “The Anaesthetist and the Law”
1977
T K Whitaker, Chancellor of the National University of Ireland “Anaesthesia in the EEC ”
1978
Lord Annan, Vice Chancellor, University of London “British Broadcasting”
1979
Lord Kearton of Whitchurch, Chairman of the National Oil Corporation “Energy and Apathy”
1980
Cecil Montacute Clothier, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the National Health Service “The Price of Excellence”
1981
John Butterfield, Regius Professor of Physic, Univeristy of Cambridge “The Modern Epidemiology”
1982
Michael Vickers, Professor of Anaesthetics, University of Wales “In the Public Interest”
1983
John Walton, President of the General Medical Council “Training Tomorrow's Doctors”
1984
M O'Donnell, Medical writer and broadcaster “Today's Pollution of the Parish Pump”
1985
Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health “Contributions to Public Health of Past Chief Medical Officers”
1986
Anthony Clare, Professor of Psychological Medicine, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London “Alcohol and the Medical Profession - a Case of Dependence”
1987
Lord Dainton of Hallam Moore, Chancellor of the University of Sheffield “The University Medical Research and the NHS”
1988
David Owen, Leader of the Social Democrat Party 1983-1987 “Science and Medicine”
1989
Baroness Warnock of Weeke, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, Philosopher “The Good of the Child”
1990
Bernard Lovell, Director of the the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, 1951-1981 “The Origin of the Universe and of Life on Earth”
1991
Lord Asa Briggs of Lewes, Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, Historian “The Health of the Family”
1992
P D Wall, Professor of Anatomy, University College, London “Could We Prevent Pain as Snow Prevented Cholera?”
1993
Donald Campbell, Professor of Anaesthesia, Glasgow “The Leaven of Science”
1994
Robert Kilpatrick, President of the General Medical Council “To Depart in Peace”
1995
R Whittington, HM Coroner for the Districts of Birmingham and Solihull “The Coroner From One Millenium to the Next”
1996
Margaret Branthwaite, Consultant Anaesthetist, Physician and Barrister “Therapeutic Options: Who Should Decide”
1997
David Bellamy, Botanist, writer and broadcaster “Mandrake and the Herbal Tradition”
1998
John Carter, Chief Medical Officer, Scotland “The NHS – 50 Years Old and Still Going Strong?”
1999
M A M S Leigh of Hempson's Solicitors “Pain: the Contribution of the Lawyer to its Genesis and Management”
2000
Leo Strunin, Consultant Anaesthetist, The Royal London Hospital “Anaesthesia – A Fit of the Vapours?”
2001
P Froggart, Belfast "John Snow and Wakley's Lancet"
2002
D Hine, Chairman, Commission for Health Improvement “The Most Important Truth”
2003
Ian Kennedy, Appointed Chairman of the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection from 2004, Former Chairman of the Bristol inquiry, Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy, UCL "What's Wrong With Clinical Negligence Litigation?"
2004
Chandra Wickramasinghe, Cardiff “The Quest for Our Origins”
2005
Terry Waite, Bury St. Edmunds "Survival and Solitude"
2006
Mary Hassell, Her Majesty’s Coroner of Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan “The 21st Century Coroner – A 12th Century Relic”
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