Inaugurated in 1980 as the Sidney Farber Lecture, and renamed in 2002 as the Farber-Landing Lecture, this lecture is a tribute to two of the Society for Pediatric Pathology’s Founders, and is a highlight of the annual meeting. The lecture honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of diseases of children and pediatric pathology, or to child health advocacy. The Farber-Landing Lecturer is chosen by the Society’s president, in consultation with the Executive Committee, and is approved by the Executive Committee and Education Committee chairperson. Lecture topics are not necessarily scientific, but may also address historical perspectives, ethical, societal or political issues, and systems-based practice. The lecture is intended to help attendees relate aspects of their practice to the broader contexts of recent advances in medical sciences or to child health within their respective communities and the world at large.
A list of previous lectures follows:
| Year |
Name |
Title |
| Sidney Farber Lectures |
| 1980 |
Dr. Robert J. Lukes |
Functional Approach to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and Related Leukemia |
| 1981 |
Dr. Josef Warkany |
Prevention of Congenital Malformations |
| 1982 |
Dr. Jay Bernstein |
Developmental Pathology of the Kidney |
| 1983 |
Dr. Robert W. Miller |
The Origins of Cancer in Childhood or Before |
| 1984 |
Dr. Benjamin Landing |
Tubulo-interstitial and Medullary Cystic Diseases of Children- Current Concepts |
| 1985 |
Dr. Robert P. Bolande |
Creative Ideation and Inquiry in Developmental Pathology |
| 1986 |
Dr. Charles R. Scriver |
Genetic syndromes (Title lost to the ravages of history) |
| 1987 |
John M. Opitz |
The Future of Developmental Pathology |
| 1988 |
Dr. Fred Rosen |
The Pathogenesis of Angioedema |
| 1989 |
Kurt Benirschke, MD |
Biology of Twinning. |
| 1990 |
Harvey S Rosenberg, MD |
Pediatric Pathology in the Time of AIDS. |
| 1991 |
Louise C Strong, PhD |
Genetics in Childhood Cancer: Windows along the Carcinogenic Pathway. |
| 1992 |
Jorge Yunis, MD |
Genes and Chromosomes in Medicine. |
| 1993 |
Charles J Scher, MD |
Growth Factor Regulated Cell Cycle Progression. |
| 1994 |
Daniel Callahan |
Health Care Rationing and the Goals of Medicine. |
| 1995 |
Dagmar Kalousek, MD |
The Fetus and its Placenta: Do they talk to Each other. |
| 1996 |
Lynne Reid, MD |
Building a Lung: Frontiers on the Information Highway. |
| 1997 |
Lucy B. Rorke, MD |
Virchow’s Great, Great Granddaughter. |
| 1998 |
David Hardwick, MD |
Directing and Managing In A Professional System |
| 1999 |
Bruce Beckwith, MD |
Life in the Gray Zone: Dealing with Uncertainty in Diagnostic Pathology. |
| 2000 |
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, MD |
Idle Thoughts on Human Generation |
| 2001 |
Louis P. Dehner, MD |
Some Reflections on Solid Tumors in Children |
| Farber – Landing Lectures |
| 2002 |
Ronald O. C. Kuschula, MD |
Paediatric Pathology in Africa: Current and Future Potentials |
| 2003 |
Milton Finegold, MD |
To the future and back: molecules and microscopy |
| 2004 |
Dr. Brian O'Connell |
The socioeconomic aspect of AIDS in children in Africa |
| 2005 |
Dr. Jem Berry |
Paediatric Pathology in the Public Eye |
| 2006 |
James Dimmick M.D. |
Pediatric Liver Pathology-A Perspective |
| 2007 |
Henry Krous, M.D. |
SIDS and SUDC: A Personal Odyssey |
| 2008 |
Claire Langston. M.D. |
Pediatric Pulmonary Pathology - How I Learned to Love the Lung |
| 2009 |
Richard van Praagh, M.D. |
Pediatric Pathology: The Clinician’s Open Sesame |
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