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 2024 KBS Lecturer was Michael McGinnis, MD, MA, MPP.
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Michael McGinnis​
MD, MA, MPP
Past Lecturers
2023
Jonathan Fielding, MD MPH, MA, MBA
Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Health Policy and Management
UCLA
2022
Janine Austin Clayton - M.D., FARVO
NIH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health
Director, NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health
2021
Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Chief Health Equity Officer
American Medical Association
2019
Soledad O'Brien
Broadcast Journalist
CNN
2018
Tom Linebarger
Chairman and CEO
Cummins Inc.
2017
Gary H. Gibbons, MD
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2016
Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, CPH
Troutman Group
2015
Don Kemper, MPH
Founder and CEO, Healthwise
2014
Kenneth E. Warner, PhD
Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
2013
Kevin Patrick, MD, MS, FACPM
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
2012
William (Bill) Foege, MD, MPH
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2011
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM
Director, Prevention Research Center
Yale University School of Medicine
2010
Steven Woolf, MD, MPH, FACPM
Director, VCU Center on Human Needs,
Professor of Family Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
2009
Dee W. Edington, PhD
Director, Health Management Research Center
University of Michigan
2008
Ronald M. Davis, MD, MA
President, American Medical Association
2007
Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP
Institute of Medicine
2006
David Eddy, MD, PhD
Archimedes, Inc.
2005
Kenneth Cooper, MD
Cooper Institute
2004
Jack Lewin, MD
California Medical Society
2003
John Seffrin, PHD
American Cancer Society
2002
Dean Ornish, MD
Preventive Medicine Research Institute
2001
John Eisenberg, MD, MBA
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
2000
David Lawrence
Kaiser Foundation
1999
Philip J. Landrigan, MD
Director, Center for Children’s Health and the Environment,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1998
J. Fraser Mustard, MD, PhD
President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
1997
Nancy Dickey, MD
President, Board of Trustees
American Medical Association
1996
David Kessler, MD
Director, Federal Drug Administration
1995
Bernard Goldstein, MD
Director, EOHSI
UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
1994
David Satcher, MD
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1993
M. Joycelyn Elders, MD
U.S. Surgeon-General Designate
1992
Kristine Gebbie, RN
Secretary, Department of Health, Washington State
1991
Philip Lee, MD
Chair, Physician Payment Review Commission
1990
D.A. Henderson, MD
Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
1989
Reed Tuckson, MD
Health Commissioner, Washington, DC
1988
Robert Graham, MD
Executive Vice President, American Academy of Family Physicians
1987
Michael Marmot, PhD
Department of Community Medicine
University College, London
1986
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD
Department of Community and Family Medicine,
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
1985
Daniel Callahan, PhD
Director, The Hastings Center
1984
William F. Bridgers, MD
Dean, School of Public Health
University of Alabama
1982
Jonas Salk, MD
Salk Institute
1981
Jean Spencer Felton, MD
College of Medicine, University of Irvine (CA)
1980
Duane L. Block, MD
Medical Director, Ford Motor Co.
1979
Kurt W. Deuschle, MD
Mt. Sinai Medical Center