
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.
Year |
Orr Lecturer |
2023 | Jo Buyske MD |
2022 | Krista L. Kaups MD, MSc |
2021 | Laura J. Moore MD |
2020 | No Lecture |
2019 | Debate: Cindy B. Matsen MD | Colleen D. Murphy MD |
2018 | Kenric Murayama MD |
2017 | S. Rob Todd MD |
2016 | Donald Lesslie MD |
2015 | Raul S. Coimbra MD, PhD |
2014 | Daniel R. Margulies MD |
2013 | Alicia Mangram MD |
2012 | David Mercer MD |
2011 | John Potts, III MD |
2010 | Barbara Lee Bass MD |
2009 | Mark A. Talamini MD |
2008 | Shuvo Roy, PhD |
2007 | Byers W. Shaw MD |
2006 | Thomas Weber MD |
2005 | Nathaniel Soper MD |
2004 | Alan Thorson MD |
2003 | Keith Lillemoe MD |
2002 | Richard J. Andrassy MD |
2001 | Russell G. Postier MD |
2000 | H. Harlan Stone MD |
1999 | Frederick A. Moore MD |
1998 | Alden H. Harken MD |
1997 | Nicholas P. Lang MD |
1996 | Ernest E. Moore, Jr. MD |
1995 | Frederick L. Grover MD |
1994 | C. James Carrico MD |
1993 | Keith Reemtsma MD |
1992 | Donald E. Fry MD |
1991 | Alex G. Little MD |
1990 | Charles M. Balch MD |
1989 | Tom R. DeMeester MD |
1988 | Laurence Y. Cheung MD |
1987 | W. Sterling Edwards MD |
1986 | Ronald C. Jones MD |
1985 | Layton F. Rikkers MD |
1984 | Samuel A. Wells, Jr. MD |
1983 | G. Rainey Williams MD |
1982 | Arlo S. Hermreck MD |
1981 | Arthur C. Beall, Jr. MD |
1980 | W. Gerald Rainer MD |
1979 | Norman M. Rich MD |
1978 | Howard T. Robertson MD |
1977 | Gilbert S. Campbell MD |
1976 | Denton A. Cooley MD |
1975 | William R. Waddell MD |
1974 | Eugene M. Brickner MD |
1973 | Erie E. Peacock MD |
1972 | C. Frederick Kittle MD |
1971 | Merlin K. DuVal MD |
1970 | Kenneth C. Sawyer MD |
1969 | Philip B. Price MD |
1968 | Stanley R. Friesen MD |
1967 | Edgar J. Poth MD |
1966 | Michael E. DeBakey MD |