Annual Meeting

Thomas G. Orr Memorial Lectureship

Dr. Thomas G. Orr was a General Surgeon in Kansas. He trained at University of Missouri and Johns Hopkins University, completed internships at Hudson Street Hospital and St. Mary’s. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at University of Kansas, and served as a Captain and a Major in World War I. Dr. Thomas Orr was a Founding Member of the American Board of Surgery, as well as Southwestern Surgical Congress, where he served as our second President. Patients and colleagues remember him as someone who always had time to talk and listen.