Morris H. Saffron Lectures (Spring Series)  - Biography of Morris H. Saffron, M.D.

1980   Genevieve Miller, PhD:  The control of smallpox in England and colonial America

1981    Lloyd Stevenson, MD:  The typhoid patient

1982    Harry Dowling, MD:  The history of city hospitals in the United States

1983    Whitfield Bell, Jr., PhD:  Some early medical societies

1984    Lester King, MD:  When did medicine become scientific?

1985    Gert Brieger:  Family practice, ancient and modern

1986    Ynez Viole O’Neill:  An unfinished scientific revolution: medieval anatomical studies

1987    Kenneth Ludmerer, MD:  American medical education: past, present, and future

1988    Regina Morantz-Sanchez, MD:  To humanize, not feminize: the future of the woman doctor in the US

1989    Gerald Geison, PhD:  Pasteur, Toux, and rabies: scientific and clinical perspective

1990    Barbara Bates, MD:  What shaped the tuberculosis sanitorium?

1991    David Cowen, MA, LittD:  Pharmacists and physicians: a hate-love relationship

1992    W. Bruce Fye, MD:  Medical book collecting and scholarship: past, present, and future

1993    Nancy Tomes, PhD:  Spreading the germ theory

1994    William Helfand, ScD:  Nineteenth century addiction cures

1995    Sherwin Nuland, MD:   As others see us: the artist looks at the doctor

1996    Gerald Grob, MD:  American psychiatry: past, present, and future

1997    J. Worth Estes, MD:  Life and death at sea in the age of sail

1998    John Parascondola, PhD:  Anchor and caduceus: the creation of the USPHS

1999    Michael Bliss, PhD:  What’s a doctor? How William Osler practiced medicine

2000    William Sharpe, MD:  Middleton Goldsmith and antisepsis, 1863

2001    Elizabeth Norman, PhD:  We band of angels: the untold stories of American nurses on Bataan

2002    Charles Rosenberg, PhD:  Contested boundaries: disease, deviance, and diagnosis

2003    Keith Wailoo, PhD:  The strange career of race and cancer in America

2004    Bert Hansen, PhD:  Medical history for the masses: heroes of medicine in children’s comic books

2005    Allen Weisse, MD:  Medical History Society of NJ: Still Alive at Twenty-five

2006    Lloyd Moote, PhD and Dorothy Moote:  The healing arts and caregivers during the great plague of London

2007    Lisa Gensel, MA:  The medical world of Benjamin Franklin

2008    Ann Wood Humphries, MS:   An enduring clarity: the life and work of Frank Netter, MD

2009    Charles S. Bryant, MD:  Gloria in absentia: Walter Reed and discovery of yellow fever transmission

2010    Sandra Longo and Debra Higgins:  Snake Hill: buried but not forgotten

2011    Norman Medow, MD:  The eyes: what do we know, when did we know it, and who knew it first?

2012    Stephen Pemberton, PhD:  The bleeding disease: hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress

2013    Lawrence Altman, MD:  Adventures of a medical journalist

2014    James Oleske, MD:  A historical perspective on perinatal HIV infection

2015    Barron Lerner, MD, PhD:  Father, doctor, role model: The Good Doctor: A Son’s Look at an Earlier Generation

2016    Norman Cantor, JD:  Death and dying jurisprudence: forty years after the Karen Ann Quinlan decision

2017    Naomi Rogers, PhD:  Many memories of Sister Kenny: Polio and America’s Golden Age

2018    David Oshinsky, PhD:   Bellevue: Three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America’s most storied hospital

2019    Steven M. Marcus, MD:  Murder in the ICU: How the NJ Poison Information and Education System helped catch Charles Cullen, RN, serial killer

2020    David K. Randall:    Black Death at the Golden Gate

2021    Jonathan Engel, PhD:   The Genesis of Private Health Insurance in the United States

2023   Samuel Still:  James Still--Early American Healer

2024    Paul Offit, MD:  The Cutter Incident: America's Worst Biological Disaster and It's Ironic Legacy

Donald F. Kent Lectures (Fall Series, 2013-) - Biography of Donald F. Kent, M.D., PhD

2013    Ira Rezak, MD: The anatomy and physiology of medical medals

2014    Bert Hansen, PhD: Louis Pasteur and the fine arts in France

2015    James Tait Goodrich, MD: Mad ramblings on book collecting and bibliomania

2016    Samuel H. Greenblatt, MD: Clinical neurology, evolution, and Victorian brain science: an introduction to John Hughlings Jackson

2017    Kathleen M. Boozang, JD, LLM, Jack M. Sabatino, JAD, and John Jacobi, JD:  Comparison and differences in the education and training of law students and medical students

2018    Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH:  Growing up and growing pains: the history of human growth hormone

2019    Richard Veit, MD:  Fever! The history and archaeology of the Philadelphia Lazaretto: A precursor to Ellis Island

2020    (Cancelled, due to Covid-19 pandemic)

2021    William H. Frishman, MD:  The Health and Medical Care of the Presidents 1789-2020

2023    Paul Stepansky, PhD:  The Historical and Ahistorical Nature of Medical Caring

2024    Nina Gelbart, PhD:  The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Mme du Coudray

2025    Mindy Schwartz, MD: The Medicine of History: Clinical-Historical Connections

MHSNJ Invited Lectures (1993-2012)

Society, Corporate, and Foundation Lectures (Fall Series 1993-2010)

1993    David Kohn, PhD: Aesthetics and the making of Darwin’s theory

1994    Donald Blaufox, MD: Latter day encounters with radium: changing concepts of radioactivity

1995    Ira Rutkow, MD: American surgery and the Civil War: a time of revolution

1996    Susan Lederer, PhD: Moving pictures: animal experimentation and the silver screen

1997    Renee Fox, PhD: Experiment perilous: forty-five years as a participant observer

1998    Steven Peitzman, MD: Student life in the golden age of the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

1999    Margaret Marsh, PhD: Thinkin’ of maybe havin’ a baby…when I’m 64

2000    Vincent Cirillo, PhD: Photographing the unseen: the Spanish-American War and military radiology

2001    Alan Kraut, PhD: Deadly deficiencies: Dr. Joseph Goldberger’s war on disease and deprivation

2002    Edward Mormon, PhD: Race and racism in America: the view from a medical history library

2003    Karen Reeds, PhD: Keeping well in New Sweden: diet, disease, and medical plants

2004   Elizabeth Fee, PhD: So, what’s new in the past: some treasures from the NLM

2005   Mark Silverman, MD De Motu Cordis: The Lumelian Lecture of 1616 by William Harvey

2006   Jock Murray, MD: The case of the Halifax explosion of 1917

2007   Janet Golden, PhD: Message in a bottle: fetal alcohol syndrome

2008   Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD: Of pox and paradox: typhus and smallpox in the American Civil War

2009   David Rosner, PhD: Toxic torts and retorts: trials and tribulations of a historian in the courtroom

2010   Cynthia Connolly, RN, PhD: The tuberculosis preventorium in American life: 1909-1970

Friends of the Society Lectures (Fall Series, 2011-2012)

2011   Lisa Rosner, PhD: The horrid and true story of the Burke and Hare anatomy murderers

2012   (Cancelled, due to Hurricane Sandy)