Past Apgar Day Lecturers

Year	Lecturer	Institution	Topic
2019	Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD, David E. Longnecker Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care	University of Pennsylvania	"Personalized Anesthesia: What Do Population Dose-Response Curves Tell Us About Individuals?"
2018	Dan E. Berkowitz, MD, MBBCh, Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine	Johns Hopkins University	"Blood Vessels That See and Smell, and Airways That Taste: Promiscuous G-Protein Coupled Receptors as Novel Therapeutic Targets."
2017	Jeffrey R. Kirsch, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Associate Dean for Clinical and Veterans' Affairs	Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR	"Are Anesthesthetics Neuro-Protectors or Toxins"
2016	David S. Warner, MD, Vice Chair for Research, Chief, Division of Basic Sciences, Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurobiology and Surgery	Duke University, Durham, NC	"Advancing Translational Research: Lessons From Study of Acute Brain Injury"
2015	Y.S. Prakash, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology & Physiology, Chair, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesiology	Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN	“Nanoparticles for Targeting Lung Diseases: The Need for Intelligent Design"
2014	Jeanine M. D’Armiento, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in Anesthesiology, Director of the Center for Molecular Pulmonary Disease in Anesthesiology and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and Director, Center for LAM and Rare Lung Disease	Columbia University, New York, NY	"Molecular Mechanism in Lung Injury and Repair”
2013	Judy R. Kersten, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Senior Vice Chair of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology	Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI	"What’s So Bad About Being Sweet?”
2011	Thomas J. J. Blanck, MD, PhD, Dorothy Reaves Spatz, MD Professor of Anesthesiology, Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology	New York University, New York, NY	“Clinical Research: Past and Present”
2010	Paul R. Knight III, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Microbiology, Department of Anesthesiology	University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY	“Aspiration Pneumonia (Disambiguation)”
2009	Laurent G. Glance, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Vice-Chairman for Research	University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY	"Health Care Report Cards: Report on the Report Cards"
2008	Steven Shafer, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology	Columbia University, New York, NY	"The Anesthetic Pipeline”
2007	Michael Zaugg, MD, DEAA, Institute of Anesthesiology, E-HOF	University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland	“New Paradigms in Organ Protection: Anesthetic pre- and post-conditioning”
2005	Jeffrey Drazen MD, Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA	"Pharmacogenetics of Asthma”
2004	John Driscoll, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics	Columbia University, New York, NY	"Dr. Virginia Apgar: Innovator and Advocate"
2003	Herbert Kleber, MD, Professor	NYPH Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY	"Pharmacotherapy for Drug Addiction"