Alan DeForest Smith Lectures

THE ALAN DeFOREST SMITH
MEMORIAL LECTURES

The Alan DeForest Smith Memorial Lecture was established in honor of an orthopaedic surgeon who dedicated his career to the achievement of excellence in medical education and patient care. Dr. Smith directed the New York Orthopaedic Hospital from 1940 to 1956, a time of critical transition for the Hospital. It was during these years that NYOH joined the family of hospitals known as Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a collaboration which has proved most fruitful. Dr. Frank E. Stinchfield, Dr. Smith’s successor, initiated the tradition whereby the Alan DeForest Smith Memorial Lecture is given at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital Alumni meetings by a visiting professor prominent in the field of orthopaedic surgery.

1957	Bradley L Coley	“The Conservative Treatment of Certain Musculoskeletal Neoplasms”
1958	Robert L Coley	“The Teaching of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Future”
1959	Philip D Wilson	“Surgical Reconstruction Following Resection for Tumor”
1961	Carl E Badgley	“The Chronically Disabling Knee Joint”
1962	Otto E Aufrane	“Prevention and Management of Infections of the Hip”
1963	Robert A Robinson	“Structure of the Calcific Deposits in Tendonous Attachments to the Bone”
1964	Charles H Herdon	“Studies in Bone Transplantation”
1965	Albert B Ferguson	“Streamlining Degenerative Disease”
1967	W J W Sharrard	“Myelodysplasia, and Overall Concept”
1968	William T Green	“Cerebral Palsy”
1969	Walter P Blount	“Fractures in Children Are Different”
1970	G Dean MacEwen	“Diagnosis & Treatment of Congenital Dislocation & Dysplasia of the Hip”
1971	Harold M Frost	“Mechanical Determinants of Skeletal Architecture”
1972	Charles F Gregory	“Orthopaedic Education: Past, Present and Future”
1973	Harold B Boyd	“The Role of Fibrous Tissue in the Prevention of Bone Formation”
1974	Thomas E Whitesides	“Transfibular Fasciotomy for Injuries”
1975	Alfred R Shands	“Charles Fayette Taylor and His Times”
1976	Floyd H Jergensen	“Post-Operative Infections of the Hip Joint: To Lay the Joint Aside”
1977	Sawnie R Gaston	“The Other Side of the Family”
1978	Carter R Rowe	“Recent Advances in the Instability of the Shoulder”
1979	Sir John Charnley	“The Wear of Plastic Materials in the Hip Joint”
1980	John J Gartland	“Challenges You Could Do Without”
1981	William MacAusland	“And Gladly Teach-But What?”
1982	Howard H Steel	“The Troika of Pelvic Problems”
1983	Richard L Cruess	“Hemiarthroplasty of the Hip”
1984	J William Fielding	“History and Development of Cervical Spine Surgery”
1985	Robert E Carroll	“The Care and Training of A Hand Surgeon”
1986	Theodore R Waugh	“Reconstruction of the Ankle”
1987	Albert H Bernstein	“Analysis of Forces and Moments Acting on the Body”
1988	David S Howell	“Interleukin I: A Puppeteer in Connective Tissue”
1989	Leonard Marmor	“History of the Presbyterian Hospital Fracture Service”
1991	Roby C Thompson	“Progress and Change: 100 to 125 Years”
1993	Charles S Neer, II	“Fifty Years Later”
1995	William G Hamilton	“Ballet Injuries: Twenty Years Experience”
1997	Frank C Wilson	“Levin of Letter”
1999	Harold M Dick	Cancelled.
2001	Stephen Copeland	“Evolution of Surface Replacement Arthroplasty of the Shoulder”
2003	Bernard F. Morrey	“Current Concepts: Reconstructive Surgery of the Elbow”
2005	Herbert Resch	“New Considerations in the Treatment of Severe Humeral Head Fractures”
2007	Frank Jobe Tommy John	"Tommy John on Tommy John Surgery: An Athlete’s Experience"

2009

Thomas S. Thornhill

"Lessons Learned in 25 Years of Total Knee Arthroplasty"