J.B. Whitehead Lectureship, Dept. of Surgery, Emory University SOM

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His 1899 purchase of the bottling rights to Coca-Cola enabled Joseph B. Whitehead, Sr., to become one of the South's leading businessmen and philanthropists. In 1932, Mr. Joseph B. Whitehead, Jr., and his mother, Mrs. Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans, contributed $25,000 to support the first surgical research laboratory at Emory. In 1939, Joseph Whitehead, Jr., established the Joseph Brown Whitehead Foundation to endow a chair in surgery with a gift totaling just under $1 million.

Following the deaths of her sons Joseph, Jr., and Conkey Pate Whitehead, Mrs. Evans provided for the addition of the Conkey Pate Whitehead Surgical Pavilion to Emory University Hospital, which included a state-of-the-art surgical suite that advanced the level of medical care available in Atlanta and the entire southeast, and the Joseph Brown Whitehead Memorial Room as a memorial to the Whitehead family.

J.B. Whitehead Lectureship Speakers 1992 – To Date
Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Date
J. Wayne Meredith, MD	Richard T. Myers Professor and Chairman, Department of General Surgery; Director, Division of Surgical Sciences; Chief of Surgery; Residency Program Director; Wake Forest University School of Medicine	Acute Care Surgery — Current Status: Who, What, When, Where and Why	8/28/08
L. Michael Brunt, MD	Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine	Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Adrenal Tumors	11/15/07
Mark R. Katlic, MD, MMM	Director of Thoracic Surgery, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center	Principles of Geriatric Surgery	11/16/06
Nancy L. Asher, MD, PhD	Professor and Chair of Surgery, UCSF Department of Surgery	Do No Harm – What Price Glory	11/10/05
Mark A. Malangoni, MD	Surgeon-in-Chief, Chairperson, Department of Surgery, MetroHealth Medical Center Professor of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine	Surgical Training and Surgical Practice: Where are we Headed?	11/18/04
Anthony A. Meyer, MD, PhD	The Roscoe B.G. Cowper Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Management of Pancreatic Pseudocysts	11/6/03
Mr. Andrew R. L. May, FRCS	Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, Essex, UK	Aortic Aneurysm Disease –The British Perspective	6/13/02
Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD	Ben A. Reid, Sr., Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville Medical School, Louisville, KY	Surgical Management of the Melanoma Epidemic	1/24/02
Gordon F. Murray, Jr., MD	Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV	Valve Replacement for Active Endocartitis	10/18/01
James W. May, Jr. , MD	Professor, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital	Statistical Perfusion — Twenty-Five-Year History of Microvascular Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital	11/16/00
Murray F. Brennan, MD	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr.	Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma	10/198
Kirby I. Bland, MD	Brown Univ. School of Med.	Integration of Molecular Biology into Clinical Management of Breast and Colorectal Cancer	4/30/98
Frank C. Spencer, MD	New York Univ. Med. Ctr.	Mitral Valve Reconstruction	10/30/97
Clyde F. Barker, MD	Univ. of Pennsylvania Med. Ctr.	The Quest for Transplantation Tolerance	9/25/97
Claude H. Organ, Jr., MD	Univ. of California, Davis-East Bay	Parathyroid Surgery: Redux	2/13/97
Josef E. Fischer, MD	Univ. of Cincinnati Medical Ctr.	Gastrointestinal Cutaneous Fistula	10/17/96
Michael R. Harrison, MD	Univ. of California, San Francisco	The Fetus as a Patient	5/23/96
Robert W. Anderson, MD	Duke Univ. Medical Ctr.	Academic Surgery and Broiled Frogs	2/1/96
Michael J. Zinner, MD	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Bile Duct Stones	11/21/96
Alfred M. Cohen, MD	Johns Hopkins	Innovative Strategies in Treatment of Rectal Cancer	2/23/95
Charles M. Balch, MD	MD Anderson	The Expanded Role of the Surgeon in Cancer Management	1/12/95
Edward Copeland, MD	U of Florida	Contemporary Management of Rectal Cancer	9/22/94
John L. Cameron, MD	Chief of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital	Current Management of Pancreatic Cancer	7/14/94
James C. Thompson, MD	Professor and Chair, Dept. of Surgery, University of Texas School of Medicine	The Clinical Significance of Gastrointestinal Hormones	6/2/94
Peter J. Deckers, MD	University of Connecticut	What Has Happened to Surgical Oncology and Why?	4/23/92

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