Throughout the year, the Duke Department of Medicine keynote presentations that bring together leaders from across Duke and beyond.
Learn more about each series and see a list of past presenters.
Honors the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and is held on the Friday before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
| Year | Speaker | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Utibe Essien, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine UCLA | Advancing Pharmacoequity: A Policy Prescription Toward Justice in Health |
| 2025 | Lance Okeke, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases | One Final Push: How Equity-Informed Data and Implementation Science can end HIV in America |
| 2024 | Gary Bennett, PhD Dean, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Research Professor, Duke Global Health Institute, Associate Professor, Duke Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Professor, Duke School of Nursing | You Have to Keep Moving Forward: Obesity in High-Risk Populations |
| 2023 | Julius M. Wilder, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Chair, Duke DEIAR Committee | Hepatitis C as a Paradigm for Health Equity and Social Justice at Duke Health |
| 2022 | Tyson Brown, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology Director, Center on Health & Society, Duke Social Science Research Institute | Toward Racial Health Equity: Critical Population Health Perspectives |
| 2021 | Darrell M. Gray, II, MD, MPH, FACG Associate Professor College of Medicine, The Ohio State University | The Fierce Urgency of Now |
| 2020 | Damon Tweedy, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Author, Black Man in a White Coat | Reflections on Race and Medicine |
| 2019 | Hannah Valantine, MD, MRCP NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce | NIH: Looking Through a Genomic Lens |
| 2018 | Kimberly Johnson, MD Division of Geriatrics | REACH Equity: Responding to the ‘Fierce Urgency of Now' |
| 2017 | Jamy Ard, MD | A Patient with Obesity Walks Into Your Clinic: Designing Effective Obesity Treatments for Key Populations |
| 2016 | Kevin Thomas, MD | Educational Videos to Address Racial Disparities in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators via Innovative Designs: The VIVID Study |
| 2015 | Courtney Fitzhugh | Reversal and Prevention of Organ Damage to Reduce Mortality in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease |
Honors the memory and contributions of two faculty members who were trailblazers in the Duke Department of Medicine: Elizabeth "Jody" Clipp, PhD, RN, and Marcy Speer, PhD.
| Year | Speaker | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, MACP Carter Smith Sr Professor, Department of Medicine , Associate Dean, Professional Development Emory University School of Medicine | Promotion of Women in Academic Medicine: A Unique Pathway to Achieve Health Equity |
| 2024 | Michele Barry, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health, Senior Associate Dean for Global Health, Stanford University | Walking the Talk: Women’s Leadership in Global Health and the Academy |
| 2023 | Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Transforming Science and Health Care Delivery to Achieve Health Equity |
| 2022 | Ann Brown, MD, MHS Vice Dean for Faculty Professor of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine | Navigating a Career in Academic Medicine: Reflections on Creating Your Path |
| 2021 | Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine Assistant Dean, Scholarship & Discovery, Pritzker School of Medicine Associate Chief Medical Officer - Clinical Learning Environment University of Chicago | Sustaining and Salvaging Innovation in a Pandemic World: From IGNITE to IMPACT |
| 2020 | Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services | Shaping Health Policy During the Pandemic |
| 2019 | Victoria J. Fraser, MD Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine Chairman, Department of Medicine Washington University School of Medicine | |
| 2018 | Redonda Miller, MD President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital | Healthcare Transformation and the Evolving Role of Hospitals |
| 2017 | Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE | Coming to Peace with Uncertainty: Breast Cancer Screening and Prevention in 2017 |
| 2016 | Serpil Erzurum | Biomarkers for Precision Care of Asthma |
| 2015 | Reshma Jasgi | Promoting Gender Equity and Success in Academic Medicine |
| 2014 | I-Min Lee, MBBS, ScD Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, and Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health | Physical Activity and Health: How Much Exercise Do I Need? |
| 2012 | Nancy Brown, MD Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology Chair and Physician-in-Chief Department of Medicine Vanderbilt University | Mechanism-directed application of ACE inhibitors: It’s not ARBitrary |
Honors the enduring legacies of two exceptional Duke faculty members whose contributions transformed patient care, research, and advocacy.
George Phillips, MD, was instrumental in establishing and leading the Duke-UNC Sickle Cell Center. Remembered as a compassionate clinician and dedicated advocate for human rights, Dr. Phillips made a lasting impact on the care of individuals with sickle cell disease. He passed away in 1994 at the age of 39.
Michelle Winn, MD, was an exceptional physician-scientist whose groundbreaking research advanced understanding of the causes of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a leading cause of kidney failure that disproportionately affects African Americans. Dr. Winn passed away in July 2014 at the age of 48.
Through this annual lectureship, we honor their enduring commitment to excellence, discovery, and improving the lives of patients
| Year | Speaker | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD Chief, Nephrology Associate Professor |
Redefining Nephrology for the Next Generation: Translating Discovery, Building Community, Inspiring Hope |
| 2024 | Lisa M. McElroy, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Onyekwere E. Akwari Assistant Professor of Surgery Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences |
A Consortium for the Holistic Assessment of Risk in Transplant |
| 2023 |
John V. Duronville, MD |
Stepping In 4 Respect: Upstander Training Nationally and at Duke University |
| 2022 | Michael DeBaun, MD, MPH Director, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Curing Sickle Cell Disease: the Good, the Bad and the Future |
| 2021 | Giselle Corbie, MD, MSc Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research Associate Provost for Rural Initiatives |
Lessons Learned in Advancing Health Equity Through Community-Engaged Research |
| 2020 | Shawn M. Bediako, PhD Director, Office of Education (Division of Intramural Research) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
Sickle Cell Disease and the Science of Race |
| 2019 | Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD Division of Nephrology |
Trading Kidneys for Time: The Story of APOL1 Nephropathy and The Use of Stem-Cell Approach to Understand It |
| 2018 | Charles D. Howell, MD Professor of Medicine Director of the Viral Hepatitis Center Howard University College of Medicine |
Eliminating Hepatitis C in the United States |
| 2017 | Marie Bernard, MD Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging |
From Mice to Men: Highlights of the National Institute on Aging Research |
| 2017 | Valerie Ashby, PhD | My Career Journey and Lessons in Mentoring |
| 2016 | Deidra Crews, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology John Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Unequal: The Story of Chronic Kidney Disease |
| 2015 | Jennifer Cousar | Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics: Great Strides and Future Directions |
| 2013 | Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MS, MPH Professor of Population Health and Medicine Director, Division of Health and Behavior Director, Center for Healthful Behavior Change Department of Population Health NYU School of Medicine |
Improving medication adherence in hypertensive African Americans: Results of two behavioral interventions |
| 2011 | George A. Mensah, MD, FACC, FACP Director, Heart Health & Global Health Policy PepsiCo Corporate Research & Development |
Food and Beverage Industry Roles in Promoting Population Health: A 21st Century Perspective |
Hosted by the Chair of the Department of Medicine, honors the legendary Dr. Eugene Stead, who served as chair of the Department of Medicine from 1947 to 1967.
Dr. Stead's leadership lead to the formation of the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Diseases, which grew into the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and he helped make of a new profession when he created the role of physician assistant. Duke's PA program was the first in the country and is currently the top PA program in the nation. We honor Dr. Stead's legacy each year by inviting a visiting professor to speak on health policy, innovation in health care, or other pressing topic in internal medicine.
This presentation is held each November in conjunction with the School of Medicine’s Medical Alumni Weekend.
| Year | Speaker | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH 20th Director, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention | Leading Through Crisis and Change: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Mandy Cohen |
| 2024 | Robert M. Califf, MD Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Seeing the World of Health and Healthcare through an Orthogonal Lens: Enduring Lessons from Dr. Stead |
| 2023 | Manesh Patel, MD Professor of Medicine Division Chief, Cardiology Duke University Medical Center | Antithrombotic therapy and vascular disease management: moving towards precision CV care and the Duke Databank 3.0 |
| 2022 | Michael Pignone, MD, MPH, MACP Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, UT Austin | Using preventive care innovation to improve equity: colorectal cancer screening |
| 2021 | J. Frank Wharam, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine Core Faculty Member of Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy | Detecting Health Policy Effects on Clinical Outcomes and Equity: The Case of Patient Financial Incentives and Diabetes |
| 2020 | Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH Executive Director at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) | Envisioning PCORI 2.0: Accelerating Innovation to Implementation |
| 2019 | Kim A. Eagle, MD, MACC Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine Director, Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center Michigan Medicine | Cardiac Risk of Non-Cardiac Surgery: A Piece of my Mind |
| 2018 | Vivian Lee, MD President of Health Platforms at Verily | Technology & Health Care: Evolution, Transformation or Disruption? |
| 2017 | Roger M. Stein, PhD Senior Lecturer Finance Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer? |
| 2016 | Robert J. Margolis | Population Health or Single Payer - the Future is in our Hands |
| 2015 | Mark McClellan Former FDA Comissioner Director of Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy | Clinician Leadership in Health Care Reform |
| 2014 | John B. Simpson, MD (Avinger) | A Brief History of Interventional Devices |
| 2013 | Ralph Snyderman Former Chancellor | From the Bronx to Stockholm via Duke: Bob Lefkowitz's Journey |
| 2012 | John Whyte Chief Medical Officer for the Discover Channel | The Power of Media to Communicate Health Messages |
| 2011 | Jack Fuessner Executive Senior Associate Dean for Medical University of South Carolina | The Future of Health Care: Curiouser and Curiouser |
| 2010 | Ed Buckley Vice Dean for Education | Innovation in Medical Education |
Honors the legacy of Joseph C. Greenfield, MD, former Chair of the Duke Department of Medicine, pioneering cardiologist, and dedicated mentor. Dr. Greenfield made lasting contributions to cardiovascular medicine and was deeply committed to developing future physician leaders.
A passionate advocate for Duke’s Chief Residents, Dr. Greenfield devoted his career to mentorship and professional development. The Department of Medicine Chief Residents each invite and host a distinguished physician-scientist whose visit reflects Dr. Greenfield’s enduring commitment to education, leadership, and academic excellence.
| Year | Speaker | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Tony Breu, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director of Resident Education, VA Boston Healthcare System | Curiosity and the Return to Why |
| 2026 | Jennifer Spicer, MD, MHPE, MPH Vice Chair of Education, Department of Medicine University of Colorado | Lighting the Inner Drive: How Everyday Teaching Choices Shape Learner Motivation |
| 2026 | Allen Kachalia, MD, JD Senior Vice President of Patient Safety and Quality John Hopkins Medicine | Excellence by Design: What Will It Take to Achieve Safer, Higher-Quality Care? |
| 2026 | Fola May, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Digestive Diseases UCLA | Colorectal Cancer: Shifting Epidemiology, New Screening Tests, and Equity through Community Partnerships |
| 2025 | Navdeep Tangri, MD, PhD Professor Section of Nephrology Max Rady College of Medicine | Lab 2.0 - Leveraging Routinely Collected Lab Data to Inform Chronic Disease Management |
| 2025 | Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO Professor of Medicine, Oncology Stanford Medicine | Medicine and Mindset: Exploring New Targets and Re-Imagining the Clinical Encounter |
| 2024 | Michael J. Battistone, MD Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology, The University of Utah | Intersections: Teaching Rheumatology in Primary Care |
| 2024 | Stephanie Ann Call, MD, MSPH Professor of Medicine UNC School of Medicine, Program Director Internal Medicine Mountain Area Health Education Center | Assessment in the Competency-Based Medicine Era; Engaging the Learner |
| 2024 | Sean van Diepen, MD Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Cardiology, University of Alberta | Putting the "C" before ICU: The Evolution of Patient Care, Staffing, and Training |
| 2024 | Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD Chief Scientific & Medical Officer, American Diabetes Association | Improving Diabetes Care |
| 2023 | Martha Gulati, MD, MS Director of Preventative Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute Associate Director, Barbara Streisand Women's Heart Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Understanding Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease |
| 2023 | Quinn Capers IV, MD Associate Dean for Faculty Department of Internal Medicine UT Southwestern Medical Center | Diversifying the Physician Workforce - Why We Can't Wait |
| 2023 | Lisa Christopher-Stine, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine and Neurology; Director of the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center Division of Rheumatology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Statin Myopathy for the Internist: Recognizing When It Is an Autoimmune Disease |
| 2023 | Hyung J. Cho, MD Vice President of Quality Department of Quality and Patient Safety Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Value Implementation in the Safety Net: Lessons Learned |
| 2022 | Robert Harrington, MD, FAHA Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine Chair, Department of Medicine Stanford University | Cardiovascular Medicine as a Data Science |
| 2022 | Euan Ashley BSc, MB ChB, FRCP, DPhil, FAHA, FACC, FESC Roger and Joelle Burnell Chair in Genomics and Precision Health Professor of Medicine and Genetics Associate Dean, School of Medicine Stanford University | Towards Precision Cardiovascular Medicine |
| 2022 | Jennifer Lai, MD, MBA, FACP Endowed Professor of Liver Health and Transplantation, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, University of California, San Francisco | High-risk Medical Decision-Making involving a Transplant Case |
| 2022 | Jennifer S. Myers, MD, FHM, FACP Professor of Clinical Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine Director, Quality & Safety Education, Director, Center for Healthcare Improvement & Patient Safety University of Pennsylvania | Education in Healthcare Quality & Safety: Looking Back and Moving Forward |
| 2021 | Ethan Basch, MD, MSc Richard M. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology Chief, Division of Oncology | Patient-reported Outcomes for Symptom Monitoring in Oncology |
| 2021 | Norah Terrault, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine Neil Kaplowitz Endowed Chair for Liver Diseases Chief of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Division Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California | Chronic Hepatitis B Management: Shifting from Control to Cure |
| 2021 | Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD Executive Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Professor of Radiation Oncology Ingram Professor of Cancer Research Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center | Across the Cancer Care Continuum |
| 2019 | Chirag Parikh, M.B.B.S., PhD Director, Division of Nephrology Professor of Medicine John Hopkins Medicine | Novel Biomarkers for Phenotyping Clinical Acute Kidney Injury |
| 2019 | Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD Chair Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Chief Academic Officer Beth Israel Lahey Health/BIDMC Harvard Medical School | Alcoholic Liver Disease: From Bench to Bedside |
| 2019 | Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD Professor of Medicine University of California San Francisco Site Director, Internal Medicine Clerkship San Francisco VA Medical Center | Learning From Cases in Practice & Practice with Cases for Learning |
| 2019 | Patrick Conway, MD, MSc President and CEO Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina | Health System Transformation |
| 2018 | Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS Professor and Chair Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity UCSF School of Medicine | Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Precision Population Health |
| 2018 | Sheila Crowe, MD Professor of Medicine University of California San Diego | What’s the problem with eating wheat? Is it gluten, wheat starch, allergies, the microbiome or something else? |
| 2018 | Ned Sharpless, MD Director, National Cancer Institute | The Dynamic Interplay between Aging and Cancer |
| 2018 | Clyde Yancy, MD Vice Dean, Chief, Division of Cardiology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | Heart Failure Care in 2018; still a work in progress |
Honors the legacy of William H. Kane, MD, PhD, an accomplished hematologist, physician-scientist, educator, and mentor. Dr. Kane made significant contributions to the understanding of blood coagulation and was widely respected for his excellence in patient care, research, and medical education.
A dedicated teacher and longtime Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program Director, Dr. Kane was passionate about developing the next generation of hematologists. The annual lecture features distinguished leaders in hematology who share advances in research and clinical care while celebrating Dr. Kane’s enduring commitment to mentorship and academic excellence.
| Year | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, PhD David S. Gottesman Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Mount Sinai | Inborn Errors of B-Cell Immunity: Insights from Bench to Bedside |
| 2024 | Jorge DiPaola, MD Professor of Pediatrics & Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis | Genomic Approaches to Bleeding Disorders |
| 2022 | Alan E. Mast, MD, PhD Walter Schroeder Endowed Chair for Blood Research Senior Investigator Versiti Blood Research Institute Medical Director Versiti Medical Sciences Institute Associate Professor Medical College of Wisconsin | Factor V and TFPI interactions in Hemostasis and Thrombosis: From Duke to East Texas |
| 2019 | Douglas B. Cines, MD Professor of Medicine Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine | The Physician-Scientist: An Itinerant Species or What I Should Say When My In-Laws Ask Me What Kind of a Doctor I Am? |
| 2017 | David Ginsburg, MD James V. Neel Distinguished Professor University of Michigan | Cargo Receptors in the ER: From Clotting Factor to Cholesterol Regulation |
| 2016 | J. Evan Sadler | Von Willebrand Factor, ADAMTS13 and Thrombotic Microangiopathy |