| 1974 |
Dr EH Cluver (Former Secretary of Health, RSA)
Development of health services on the gold mines |
| 1975 |
Professor JHS Gear (Department of Tropical Medicine, SAIMR)
Highlights in the history of tropical medicine in South Africa |
| 1976 |
Professor RSF Schilling (London School of Tropical Medicine)
Uses of epidemiology in the control of respiratory diseases |
| 1977 |
Prof L Schamroth (Baragwanath Hospital)
The trial of William Craib |
| 1978 |
Dr C Adler (Adler Museum of the History of Medicine)
The life and times of William Harvey |
| 1979 |
Professor AM Coetzee (University of Pretoria)
Saga of pneumonia in the gold mines |
| 1980 |
Dr EM Sandler (Leipoldt Memorial Lecturer, MASA)
C Louis Leipoldt: medical student extraordinary |
| 1981 |
Professor Wyndham (Institute for Biostatistics of the South African Medical Research Council)
Acclimatization to heat in the mining industry |
| 1982 |
Dr WH Helfand (Senior Vice President, Merck Sharpe & Dohme International, New York)
Art and medicine in professional communications |
| 1983 |
Dr CC Freed (Superintendent, Cottesloe Hospital)
Orenstein onwards |
| 1984 |
Professor J Metz (Director, SAIMR, Honorary Professor, Clinical Pathology and
Chairman of the School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand)
Blood, food and the researcher |
| 1985 |
Professor Margaret Becklake (McGill University)
Setting the limits: how do we protect the environment |
| 1986 |
Professor F Daubenton (University of the Witwatersrand)
A man for all seasons: Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein |
| 1987 |
Dr RL Cowie (Ernest Oppenheimer Hospital, Welkom)
The Five Ages: pulmonary tuberculosis and the gold miner |
| 1988 |
Professor JR Kriel (University of the Witwatersrand)
Is medicine facing a philosophical crisis? |
| 1989 |
Dr JW van der Spuy (Medical Research Council)
Trauma in South Africa |
| 1990 |
Professor SR Benatar (University of Cape Town)
Academic medicine in South Africa |
| 1991 |
Professor D Mitchell (University of the Witwatersrand)
Heat stroke |
| 1992 |
Dr Y van Schirnding (Johannesburg Municipality)
Environment and health in the 1990s |
| 1993 |
Professor JA Myburgh (University of the Witwatersrand)
Can we afford ?high tech? surgical research in South Africa?The example of organ transplantation |
| 1994 |
Professor Peter Piot (Director of Research and Intervention Development, Global
Programme on AIDS, World Health Organization)
The AIDS Epidemic: past, present and future |
| 1995 |
Professor W Makgoba (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Witwatersrand)
The Molecules of Life |
| 1996 |
Dr DJ Ncayiyana (Editor: SAMedical Journal, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town)
Health care in South Africa: where are we headed |
| 1997 |
Prof essor KP Klugman (Director SAIMR)
Pneumococcal disease in miners and children |
| 1998 |
LECTURE NOT HELD |
| 1999 |
Professor CJ Mieny (Department of Surgery, University of Pretoria)
Theodore Bilroth and Johannes Brahms: A musical friendship |
| 2000 |
LECTURE NOT HELD |
| 2001 |
Professor JCA Davies (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Professional Research Fellow and former Professor of Occupational Health, University of the Witwatersrand)
Early South African insights into the risks of asbestos dust exposure: Simpson, Strachan and Slade |
| 2002 |
Professor R Thornton (Department of Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand)
Traditional healers and biomedical practice: prospects and barriers to co-operation |
| 2003 |
Mr Stephan Welz (Director, Stephan Welz & Co)
Museums, dealers and collectors: friend or foe? |
| 2004 |
Professor PV Tobias (Professor Emeritus, Anatomy and Human Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
At my Wit?s end? After sixty years at medical school |
| 2005 |
Dr Sydney Brenner (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, Nobel Prize winner 2002 (Physiology or Medicine)
Human biology: health and disease |
| 2006 |
Professor Michael Kew (Dora Dart Professor Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand)
Cancer of the liver can be prevented: the first anti-cancer vaccine |
| 2007 |
Professor Errol Friedberg (Professor and holder of the Senator Betty and Dr Andy Andujar Distinguished Chair of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Wits graduate)
The Writing Life of James D Watson: Writing ?The Double Helix?
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| 2008 |
Professor Hendrik Scholtz (Group General Manager, International SOS and former Professor and Chief Specialist of Forensic Pathology Services in the Gauteng Departmnt of Health and Head of the Division of Forensic Medicine in the School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Digging for the truth: lessons from my casebook
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| 2009 |
Dr Lucille Blumberg: Deputy Director, Head of the Epidemiology Division, and medical consultant to the Special Pathogens Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg
Outbreaks: new threats and old culprits. The work of disease detectives. |
