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