Historical Graduation Speakers
1996 Dr. Michael Brown, Nobel Laureate; Paul J. Thomas Professor of Medicine and Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
1996 Dr. Louis Sokoloff, Chief, Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism, National Institutes of Mental Health
1997 Dr. Philip R. Lee, former Assistant Secretary for Health, DHHS
1998 Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute of the NIH
1998 Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, Professor of Neurology at UCSF and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Medicine
1999 Dr. Kenneth I. Shine, President, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
2000 Dr. Jordan J. Cohen, President, Association of American Medical Colleges
2001 Dr. Michael S. Brown, C'62, M'66, Nobel Laureate; Paul J. Thomas Professor of Molecular Genetics; Director, Jonsson Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
2002 Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
2003 Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2004 Dr. Henry W. Foster, Jr., Professor Emeritus and former Dean, School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University
2005 Dr. Helene D. Gayle, Director of the HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2006 Dr. Jeffrey M. Leiden, Former President and Chief Operating Officer, Pharmaceutical Products Group, Abbott Laboratories
2007 Dr. Atul Gawande, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
2008 Dr. Jordan J. Cohen, President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, George Washington University
2009 Dr. Christine K. Cassel, President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation
2010 Dr. Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, The Emmanual and Robert Hart Director of the Center for Bioethics and the Sydney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
2011 Dr. Arthur H. Rubenstein, Executive Vice President and Dean
2012 Dr. Peter C. Agre, University Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg school of Public Health
2013 Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response RADM, U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2014 Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, President, Brigham and Women’s Healthcare, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
2015 Dr. Gaetano Thiene, Professor of Pathology, University of Padua Medical School
2016 Dr. Michael S. Brown, Regental Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
2017 Dr. Robert M. Wachter, Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
2018 Dr. Gail Morrison, William Maul Measey President’s Distinguished Professor in Medical Education, Special Advisor to the EVP/Dean, Executive Director Innovation Center for Online Medical Education
2019 Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections, LLC
2020 Dr. Katrina A. Armstrong, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chair of the Department of Medicine
and Physician-in-Chief of Massachusetts General Hospital
2021 Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation
2022 Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, University Professor of Medical Humanities, Professor of Health Policy and American Studies, and Professor of Medicine at The George Washington University
2023 Dr. Holly J. Humphry, President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Chair of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine’s Board of Directors