Archived Awardees

Year	Speaker and Lecture Details
2022	Rena Wing, Ph.D., Brown University Should Older Adults with Diabetes and Obesity Lose Weight?
2021	Kristine Yaffe, M.D. University of California, San Francisco Epidemiology of Cognitive Aging: Why Observational Studies Still Matter
2019	John P.A. Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc. Stanford University In Scientific Method We Don’t Just Trust: Or Why Replication Has More Value Than Discovery
2018	Ana V. Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health Advancing Population Health: Five Propositions and a Research Agenda
2017	Mark Schiffman, M.D., M.P.H. National Cancer Institute Changing Epidemiology of HPV and Cervical Cancer: From Etiology, to Validation of Prevention Methods, to Dissemination
2016	Michael Bracken, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACE. Yale School of Public Health Inefficiency and Waste in Biomedical Research: How Prevalent Is It, What Are Its Causes, and How Is It Prevented?
2015	Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.P.H. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Research Directions for Solving the Obesity Epidemic in High-Risk Populations
2014	Moyses Szklo, M.D., Dr.P.H., M.P.H. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Epidemiology: Back to Translation
2013	Mitchell Gail, M.D., Ph.D. Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute Using Risk Models for Breast Cancer Prevention
2012	Lewis H. Kuller, M.D., Dr.P.H., University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health The Obesity Epidemic: Why Have We Failed?
2011	Jonathan Samet, M.D., Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Big Epidemiology for Big Problems
2010	Julie E. Buring, Sc.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston What Do We Do When Studies Disagree?
2009	Leon Gordis, M.D., Dr.P.H., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Epidemiology at the Interface of Science, Policy, and Politics: Are New Directions Needed for Epidemiology Training Today?
2008	Alice S. Whittemore, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, California Personalizing Cancer Prevention
2007	Robert N. Hoover, M.D., Sc.D., The National Cancer Institute, NIH Hormones & Breast Cancer: Etiology vs. Ideology
2006	Steven N. Blair, P.E.D., The Cooper Institute, Texas Physical Inactivity: The Biggest Public Health Problem in the 21st Century
2005	Jo Ann Manson, M.D., Dr.P.H., Harvard Medical School, Boston Post-Menopausal: Can Divergent Findings from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies Be Reconciled?
2004	Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., University of California, San Diego Diversity, Body Size and Diabetes: Genetics Without Genotyping
2003	Jeremiah Stamler, M.D., Northwestern University Nutrition, Blood Pressure, Cholesterol and Low Risk
2002	Sir Richard Peto, F.R.S., University of Oxford, UK Halving Premature Death
2001	David L. DeMets, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison Managing and Monitoring Multicenter Clinical Trials: Who Is in Charge of What?
2000	Steven R. Cummings, M.D., FACP, University of California, San Francisco New Technology and a Two-Edged Sword: How Bone Densitometry Has Revolutionized and Impeded the Understanding and Prevention of Osteoporotic Fractures
1999	Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., Harvard Medical School, Boston Diet and Coronary Heart Disease: Have We Misled the Nation?
1998	Alfred Sommer, M.D., M.H.S., Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore Epidemiology in the Cause of Vitamin A: Science to Practice
1997	Jean W. MacCluer, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio From Epidemiology to Gene Discovery: Finding Genes for Complex Diseases
1996	Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., M.D., Sc.M., Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute Epidemiology of Cancer: An Interdisciplinary Approach
1995	Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H., John Snow Professor of Medicine and Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Aspirin in the Secondary and Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease