1995
Reading of the play, “Patient A,” a story of Kimberly Bergalis, who allegedly contracted AIDS from her dentist, directed by Cynthia Levin and read by actors from the Unicorn Theatre.

1996
W.L. LaCroix, S.J., Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rockhurst College
Ethical Implications for the End of Modern Life

1997
Marjorie Sirridge, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, KU School of Medicine, and Robert Lyman Potter, MD, PhD, Center for Practical Bioethics, and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine for Kansas University School of Medicine 
Dramatic Readings form “Wendell Berry’s Futility”

1998
Dax Cowart, Burn Survivor, and William J. Winslade, James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Dax’s Story Saying No: Who Should Decide?

1999
Hans Uffelmann, PhD, Co-Founder of the Center for Practical Bioethics, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
The Role of the Midwest Bioethics Center in the History of Bioethics

2000
Jean deBlois, CSJ, RN, PhD, Ethicist, St. Louis University School of Medicine
Living Well While Dying

2001
James F. Childress, PhD, John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics; Director, Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia
Public Bioethics – Why, How and to What End?

2002
Robert Lyman Potter, MD, PhD, Center for Practical Bioethics, and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine for Kansas University School of Medicine, and Marjorie Sirridge, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, KU School of Medicine.
“Ethics in Outpatient Scenarios,” written by Potter and Sirridge, read by members of the UMKC medicine and literature class

2003
Bruce Vladeck, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (former HCFA Administrator)
Medicine and Malpractice: The Past, the Present and Trying Something Different

2004
Laura Hanson, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Can Informed Consent Ever Become Shared Decision Making?

2005
Edmund Pelligrino, MD, Founder of the Center for Clinical Bioethics and Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown University
The Use and Abuse of Futility in End-of-Life Decisions

2006
Emily Friedman, Social Ethicist & Policy Consultant
Healthcare in 2030: Alternative Futures

2007 (2 lectures)
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD, Director of the Buehler Center on Aging, Professor of Health Industry Management, Kellogg School and Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School
Patient Safety

 Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Bioethics, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health
Healthcare Rationing in the Event of a Catastrophe

2008
Steven Schroeder, MD, Distinguished Professor of Health and Healthcare, University of California-San Francisco
Revisiting American Health Policy: Why Change is So Necessary But So Hard to Achieve

2009
Daniel Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD, Inaugural Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Professor in the School of Divinity and Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago
The Role of Conscience in Medical Decisions 

2010
Kathleen M. Foley, MD, Neurologist, Chief of Pain and Palliative Care Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The Politics of Palliative Care

2011
Richard Payne, MD, Professor in the Divinity School and Professor and Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, Duke University
Bioethics and the Underserved: Culture, Values and Justice

2012
Jerome Groopman, MD, and Pamela Hartzband, MD, Staff of Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center and faculty at Harvard Medical School
Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You

2013
Felicia Cohn, PhD, President Elect, American Society of Bioethics & Humanities and Bioethics Director, Kaiser Permanente Orange County
How (Future) Doctors Think: Medical Students Make Sense of the World

2014

Cheryl Brown Henderson, Daughter of Lead Plaintiff in Brown v Board of Education
Luncheon Conversation with Karla Holloway at Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center

Karla Holloway, PhD, James B. Duke Professor of English, Law and Women’s Studies at Duke University
The Ethics of Spectacle: How a Private Body Becomes a Public Text

2015
David Casarett, MD, MA, Physician, Author, Researcher, and Tenured Professor
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead

2016
Daniel Webster, PhD, MPH, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he serves as Director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research, Deputy Director of Research for the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and Director of the PhD program in Health and Public Policy
Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue

2017
Damon Tweedy, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and staff physician at Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Racism and Medical Education