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Established by the ACPM Board of Regents in 1979 to recognize Dr. Katharine Boucot Sturgis’ outstanding contributions in research, teaching and service in the field of preventive medicine, the annual KBS Lecture is an opportunity for nationally recognized leaders to explore key issues and innovations in health promotion and disease prevention.
Dr. Sturgis was a pioneer in preventive medicine as the chair of preventive medicine at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. This annual lecture recognizes her courageous and effective fight against disease and disability as well as her wisdom and leadership in attaining preventive medicine goals. Past recipients of this lectureship have included virologist and polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, FDA commissioner David Kessler, tobacco-control specialist Ron Davis and many others.
The KBS Lecture is given annually at the ACPM Preventive Medicine conference.
The 2025 KBS Lecturer was Leith States, MD, MPH, MBA, FACPM.
Michael McGinnis, MD, MA, MPP
Executive Director of the Leadership Consortium for a Learning Health System
National Academy of Medicine
Jonathan Fielding, MD MPH, MA, MBA
Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Health Policy and Management
UCLA
Janine Austin Clayton – M.D., FARVO
NIH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health
Director, NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health
Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Chief Health Equity Officer
American Medical Association
Soledad O’Brien
Broadcast Journalist
CNN
Tom Linebarger
Chairman and CEO
Cummins Inc.
Gary H. Gibbons, MD
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, CPH
Troutman Group
Don Kemper, MPH
Founder and CEO, Healthwise
Kenneth E. Warner, PhD
Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
Kevin Patrick, MD, MS, FACPM
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
William (Bill) Foege, MD, MPH
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM
Director, Prevention Research Center
Yale University School of Medicine
Steven Woolf, MD, MPH, FACPM
Director, VCU Center on Human Needs,
Professor of Family Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
Dee W. Edington, PhD
Director, Health Management Research Center
University of Michigan
Ronald M. Davis, MD, MA
President, American Medical Association
Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP
Institute of Medicine
David Eddy, MD, PhD
Archimedes, Inc.
Kenneth Cooper, MD
Cooper Institute
Jack Lewin, MD
California Medical Society
John Seffrin, PHD
American Cancer Society
Dean Ornish, MD
Preventive Medicine Research Institute
John Eisenberg, MD, MBA
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
David Lawrence
Kaiser Foundation
Philip J. Landrigan, MD
Director, Center for Children’s Health and the Environment,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
J. Fraser Mustard, MD, PhD
President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Nancy Dickey, MD
President, Board of Trustees
American Medical Association
David Kessler, MD
Director, Federal Drug Administration
Bernard Goldstein, MD
Director, EOHSI
UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
David Satcher, MD
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
M. Joycelyn Elders, MD
U.S. Surgeon-General Designate
Kristine Gebbie, RN
Secretary, Department of Health, Washington State
Philip Lee, MD
Chair, Physician Payment Review Commission
D.A. Henderson, MD
Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Reed Tuckson, MD
Health Commissioner, Washington, DC
Robert Graham, MD
Executive Vice President, American Academy of Family Physicians
Michael Marmot, PhD
Department of Community Medicine
University College, London
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD
Department of Community and Family Medicine,
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Daniel Callahan, PhD
Director, The Hastings Center
William F. Bridgers, MD
Dean, School of Public Health
University of Alabama
Jonas Salk, MD
Salk Institute
Jean Spencer Felton, MD
College of Medicine, University of Irvine (CA)
Duane L. Block, MD
Medical Director, Ford Motor Co.
Kurt W. Deuschle, MD
Mt. Sinai Medical Center