Helen and John Schilling Endowed Lectureship & Research Symposium

The Helen and John Schilling Endowed Lectureship was established by the late Helen Schilling to bring distinguished scholars to the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington, and to enhance the Department’s commitment to the highest standards of patient care, teaching, research and scholarship. It was Mrs. Schilling’s wish that the lectureship be named in honor of her husband, John. Learn more about the Helen and John Schilling Lectureship.

Previous Helen & John Schilling Lecturers and Abstract Booklets

2024

Fiemu Nwariaku, MD, MBA, FACS
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah, Helen Lowe Bamberger Colby Presidential, Endowed Chair in Health Sciences
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Surgery Synopsis newsletter article article >>

2023

Julie Ann Sosa, MD, MA, FACS
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of California - San Francisco, Leon Goldman, MD Distinguished Professor of Surgery
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Surgery Synopsis newsletter article article >>

2022

Kathie Ann Joseph, MD
Professor of Surgery and Population Health, Vice Chair of Diversity and Health Equity, Co-Director of the Beatrice W. Welters Breast Health Outreach and Navigation Program, and Medical Director KP-3 at NYU Grossman School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health
Abstract booklet >>
Surgery Synopsis newsletter article >>

2021

Robin S. McLeod, MD, FRCS(C)
Professor in Department of Surgery and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and Vice Chair of Quality and Performance at University of Toronto
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Surgery Synopsis newsletter article >>

2019

Mary Hawn, MD, MPH
Professor of Surgery, Stanford Medicine and Chair of the Department of Surgery, Stanford University
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2018

Caprice C. Greenberg, MD, MPH
Professor of Surgery, Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Health Services Research, Director, Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program
Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Surgery Synopsis newsletter article >>

2017

Diana Farmer, MD
Chair and Pearl Stamps, Stewart Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Surgeon–in–Chief, UC Davis Children’s Hospital
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2016

Melina R. Kibbe, MD, FACS, FAHA
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Edward G. Elcock Professor of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University
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Surgery Synopsis newsletter article >>

2015

Walter J. Pories, MD
Professor of Surgery at Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University
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2014

Timothy R. Billiar, MD
George Vance Foster Professor & Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
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Surgery Synopsis newsletter article >>

2013


Anthony Atala, MD

Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
The W.H. Boyce Professor & Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University
Surgery Synopsis newsletter article >>

2012

Gerald Fried, MD, FRCS(C), FACS
Professor of Surgery and Gastroenterology, Adair Family Chair of Surgical Education, Montreal General Hospital
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Surgery Synopsis newsletter article >>

2011

Julie A. Freischlag, MD
The William Stewart Halsted Professor, Chair, Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
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2010

Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD
Dallas B. Phemister, Professory of Surgery, Chair, Department of Surgery, Dean for Clinical Affairs, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago
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2009

Michael W. Mullholland, MD, PhD
Frederick A. Coller Distinguished, Professor of Surgery, Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan School of Medicine
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2008

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD
Bixby Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine

2007

Shukri F. Khuri, MD, MS (Hon.)
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System, Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

2006

Richard H. Bell, Jr., MD
Professor and Chair of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

2005

Barbara L. Bass, MD
Professor of Surgery, Maryland University School of Medicine

2004

Michael T. Longaker, MD
Director of Children’s Surgical Research in the Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine

2003

Michael G. Sarr, MD
Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Rochester

2002

Ori D. Rotstein, MD
Peter A. Crossgrove Chair in General Surgery, The University of Toronto

2001

John Mannick, MD
Moseley Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

2000

Lazar J. Greenfield, MD
Frederick A. Coller Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, The University of Michigan

1999

Samuel A. Wells Jr., MD, FACS
Executive Director, American College of Surgeons

1998

Haile T. Debas, MD
Chancellor and Dean, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco

1997

Murray F. Brennan, MD
Alfred P. Sloan Chair in Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1996

Richard L. Simmons, MD
Vance Foster Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

1995

Judah Folkman, MD
Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Schilling Distinguished Faculty Awardees

YearAwardee
2024Dr. Thomas Hatsukami
2023Dr. Raymond Yeung
2022Dr. Nicole Gibran
2021Dr. Ron Maier