DEI Focused Visiting Professors/Grand Rounds:

Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture – Friday, January 17, 2025 – Dr. Jerome Adams
Women in Surgery Lecture – TBD
Yvedt L. Matory, MD Memorial Lecture – Friday, March 7, 2025 - Dr. LuzMaria Rodriguez

Past DEI -Focused Professors/Grand Rounds:

MLK Jr. Diversity Lectureship

2019 Selwyn M. Vickers, MD
2020 Alexa Canady-Davis, MD
2021 LD Britt, MD
2022 Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, ML
2023 Bonnie Simpson Mason, MD
2024 Joseph A. Tindell, MD, MPH, FACEP

Yvedt L. Matory, MD Memorial Lectureship

2007 LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr, MD, FACS
2008 Edward Cornwell, III, MD
2009 L.D. Britt, MD, MPH
2010 Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
2011 Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA
2012 Lisa A. Newman, MD, MPH, FACS
2013 Benjamin S. Carson, Sr, MD
2014 Timothy J. Eberlein, MD
2015 Steven C. Stain, MD
2016 Michael T. Watkins, MD, FACS FAHA
2017 Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD, FACS, FAAP
2018 Jennifer L. Ellis, MD, MBA
2019 Malcolm V. Brock, MD
2020 Patricia Turner, MD
2022 Henri Ford, MD
2023 Callisia N. Clarke, MD, MS, FACS, FSSO
2025 LuzMaria Rodriguez, MD, FACS

Women in Surgery Lectureship

2017 Charlotte Eielson Ariyan, MD
2018 Sandra L. Wong, MD
2019 Mary Hawn, MD
2020 Julie A. Freischlag, MD
2021 Omaida Velazquez, MD
2022 Barbara Lee Bass, MD
2023 Melina Kibbe, MD, FACS, FAHA
2024 Carol Bradford, MD, MS, FACS