Intertwining Legacies
His 1899 purchase of the bottling rights to Coca-Cola enabled Joseph B. Whitehead Sr. to become one of the South's leading businessmen and philanthropists. In 1932, Joseph B. Whitehead Jr. and his mother, Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans, contributed $25,000 to support the first surgical research laboratory at Emory. In 1939, Joseph Whitehead Jr., established the Joseph Brown Whitehead Foundation to endow a chair in surgery with a gift totaling just under $1 million.
Following the deaths of her sons Joseph Jr. and Conkey Pate Whitehead, Mrs. Evans provided for the addition of the Conkey Pate Whitehead Surgical Pavilion to Emory University Hospital, which included a state-of-the-art surgical suite that advanced the level of medical care available in Atlanta and the entire southeast, and the ornate Joseph Brown Whitehead Memorial Room as a memorial to the Whitehead family.
| Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Feng, MD, PhD | – Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery – Vice Chair for Research, University of California, San Francisco; Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Transplantation |
The Dramatically Changing Landscape of Liver Transplantation | 5/9/2024 |
| Jayme Locke, MD, MPH | – Arnold G. Diethelm Endowed Chair in Transplantation Surgery – Director of the Division of Transplantation at the University of Alabama-Birmingham |
Promoting Health Equity Across the Continuum of Transplant Care | 5/25/2023 |
| Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil | – H. Leon Pachter, MD Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine – Director, NYU Langone Transplant Institute |
Recent Advances in Clinical Xenotransplantation | 5/26/2022 |
| Bryan A. Whitson, MD, PhD | – The Jewel and Frank Benson Family Research Professor – Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery – Vice Chair of Innovation and Translational Research, Department of Surgery – Director, Thoracic Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support – Co-Director, COPPER Lab (Collaboration for Organ Perfusion, Protection, Engineering and Regeneration) – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center |
Assessment and Repair of Warm Ischemic Injury in Lung Donor Allografts | 5/20/2021 |
| Kim M. Olthoff, MD | – Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania – Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery, Penn Medicine – Director, Liver Transplant Program, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
The Evolving Role of Living Donor Liver Transplantation in the United States | 3/21/2019 |
| James F. Markmann, MD, PhD | – Claude E. Welch Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School – Chief, Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital – Clinical Director, MGH Transplant Center |
Transplantation – A Medical Miracle of the 20th Century, But the Best is Yet to Come | 5/10/2018 |
| Jesse Schold, PhD | – Researcher, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute – Director, Outcomes Research, Kidney and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic Transplant Center |
The Search for Equipoise with Healthcare Provider Report Cards | 6/15/2017 |
| Charles M. Miller, MD | – Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University – Program and Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation, Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Cleveland Clinic |
My 23 Year Odyssey in Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Preparing for the Inevitable | 6/23/2016 |
| Peter G. Stock, MD, PhD | University of California, San Francisco: – Professor of Surgery – Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program – Surgical Director, Pediatric Renal Transplant Program – Co-Director, Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplant Program – Chair, Department of Surgery Research Committee |
Serendipity in Transplantation Research: From Islets to HIV | 5/14/2015 |
| John J. Fung, MD, PhD | – Chair, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic – Former Chair, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic |
Safely Expanding the Donor Pool | 5/15/2014 |
| Thomas M. Fishbein, MD | MedStar Georgetown University Hospital: – Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics – Executive Director, Georgetown Transplant Institute – Director, Liver Diseases and Transplant Program |
Intestinal Transplantation | 6/6/2013 |
| Shaf Keshavjee, MD, MSc | University of Toronto: – Director, Toronto Lung Transplant Program – Surgeon-in-Chief, University Health Network – James Wallace McCutcheon Chair in Surgery – Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery and Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering |
Ex vivo Repair and Regeneration of Organs for Transplantation | 5/31/2012 |
| Riccardo A. Superina, MD | – Robert E. Schneider Chair in Transplantation and Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine – Surgical Director, Siragusa Transplantation Center, Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago |
Liver Transplantation in Children: An Overview of 25 Years of Transitions | 6/9/2011 |
| William C. Chapman, MD | – Professor of Surgery and Chief, Section of Transplantation, Washington University School of Medicine – Chief, Division of General Surgery, Washington University |
Liver Transplantation for Hepatic Malignancy | 6/3/2010 |
| Mary Klingensmith, MD | – Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine – Program Director, General Surgery Residency, Washington University |
Controversies in Surgical Education: The Way Forward | 8/27/2009 |
| J. Wayne Meredith, MD | – Richard T. Myers Professor and Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine – Director, Division of Surgical Sciences, Wake Forest University – Chief of Surgery, Residency Program Director, Wake Forest University |
Acute Care Surgery — Current Status: Who, What, When, Where and Why | 8/28/2008 |
| L. Michael Brunt, MD | – Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine | Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Adrenal Tumors | 11/15/2007 |
| Mark R. Katlic, MD, MMM | – Director of Thoracic Surgery, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center | Principles of Geriatric Surgery | 11/16/2006 |
| Nancy L. Asher, MD, PhD | – Professor and Chair of Surgery, UCSF Department of Surgery | Do No Harm – What Price Glory | 11/10/2005 |
| Mark A. Malangoni, MD | – Surgeon-in-Chief, Chairperson, Department of Surgery, MetroHealth Medical Center – Professor of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
Surgical Training and Surgical Practice: Where are we Headed? | 11/18/2004 |
| Anthony A. Meyer, MD, PhD | – The Roscoe B.G. Cowper Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Management of Pancreatic Pseudocysts | 11/6/2003 |
| Mr. Andrew R. L. May, FRCS | – Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, Essex, UK | Aortic Aneurysm Disease – The British Perspective | 6/13/2002 |
| Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD | – Ben A. Reid, Sr., Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville Medical School, Louisville, KY | Surgical Management of the Melanoma Epidemic | 1/24/2002 |
| Gordon F. Murray, Jr., MD | – Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV | Valve Replacement for Active Endocartitis | 10/18/2001 |
| James W. May, Jr. , MD | – Professor, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital | Statistical Perfusion — 25-Year History of Microvascular Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital | 11/16/2000 |
| Murray F. Brennan, MD | – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma | 10/1/1999 |
| Kirby I. Bland, MD | – Brown University School of Medicine | Integration of Molecular Biology into Clinical Management of Breast and Colorectal Cancer | 4/30/1998 |
| Frank C. Spencer, MD | – New York University Medical Center | Mitral Valve Reconstruction | 10/30/1997 |
| Clyde F. Barker, MD | – University of Pennsylvania Medical Center | The Quest for Transplantation Tolerance | 9/25/1997 |
| Claude H. Organ, Jr., MD | – University of California, Davis-East Bay | Parathyroid Surgery: Redux | 2/13/1997 |
| Josef E. Fischer, MD | – University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Gastrointestinal Cutaneous Fistula | 10/17/1996 |
| Michael R. Harrison, MD | – University of California, San Francisco | The Fetus as a Patient | 5/23/1996 |
| Robert W. Anderson, MD | – Duke University Medical Center | Academic Surgery and Broiled Frogs | 2/1/1996 |
| Michael J. Zinner, MD | – Brigham and Women's Hospital | Bile Duct Stones | 11/21/1996 |
| Alfred M. Cohen, MD | – Johns Hopkins | Innovative Strategies in Treatment of Rectal Cancer | 2/23/1995 |
| Charles M. Balch, MD | – MD Anderson | The Expanded Role of the Surgeon in Cancer Management | 1/12/1995 |
| Edward Copeland, MD | – University of Florida | Contemporary Management of Rectal Cancer | 9/22/1994 |
| John L. Cameron, MD | – Chief of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital | Current Management of Pancreatic Cancer | 7/14/1994 |
| James C. Thompson, MD | – Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Texas School of Medicine | The Clinical Significance of Gastrointestinal Hormones | 6/2/1994 |
| Peter J. Deckers, MD | – University of Connecticut | What Has Happened to Surgical Oncology and Why? | 4/23/1992 |