2024
February 29
"What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms"
Jonathan Metzl, M.D., Ph.D.

2023
March 1
"Promoting Professionalism: Transformation via the Humanities"
David J. Doukas, M.D.

2022
March 31
Sandy Sufian Ph.D., MPH

2021
March 30
"Moving Pictures: Visual Images and Health Advocacy"
Theresa Jones Ph.D

2020 – Covid, no lecture

The School of Medicine, in conjunction with the Sirridge Office of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, established the William T. Sirridge, M.D. Medical Humanities Lectureship in 1994. It recognized Dr. Sirridge’s dedication, compassion and advancement of patient care and medical education in Kansas City. Through a yearly lectureship each spring, medical professionals, students, residents and the local community gained access to information regarding the medical humanities.

2019
March 28
"Accommodation, Regoaling, and Satisficing: Life Lessons from the Neonatal ICU"
Brian S. Carter, M.D.

2018
March 22
“How to conduct a good death”
Gary Salzman, M.D.

2017
March 16
“What comics can teach us about the culture of medicine and treatment of medical students”
Michael Green, M.D., M.S., FACP

2016
March 24
“Medicine in Balance: The Synergy of Science and the Humanities”
J. Stuart Munro, M.D.

2015
March 26
“The Quality of Mercy”
Daniel K. Hall – Flavin, M.D.

2014
March 13
“From the Heart of Hell, I Strike at Thee: Reflections on Moby Dick”
Christopher Sirridge, M.D.

2013
March 7
“The Joy of Medicine: A Journey”
Paul D. Larsen, M.D.

2012
March 22
“Our Inescapable In-Betweenness: Culture, Self, and Suffering”
Michael C. Brannigan, M.A., Ph.D.

2010
“The History of the Human Heart”
Faith T. Fitzgerald, M.D., MACP

2009
“Consumed by Love: The Portrayal of Tuberculosis in Three Victorian Operas”
Lynda Payne, Ph.D., R.N.

2008
“How Medical Humanities Help Us Understand the Politics of Medicine”
Jonathan M. Metzl, M.D., Ph.D.

2007
“The Importance of the Family History”
Michael LaCombe, M.D.

2006
“Narrative, Ethics, and the Possible Hero”
Jerome Freeman, M.D., Professor and Chair

2005
“Chekhov’s Doctors and Today’s Medicine”
Jack Coulehan, M.D.

2004
“Three Doctors who Changed the History of Art”
Burton Dunbar, Ph.D.

2003
“Practicing Low-Tech Medicine in a High-Tech World”
Robert M. Arnold, M.D. (1983 UMKC School of Medicine Graduate)

2002
“Novels and NICUs: Moral Imagination and Clinical Ethical Dilemmas”
John D. Lantos, M.D.

2001
“A Private Practice: Diaries of Physician Authors”

2000
“The First Cocaine Epidemic”
David F. Musto, M.D.

1999
“Confidentiality in the Age of Computers and Managed Care”
Bernard Lo, M.D.

1998
“The Doctor as Writer”
Richard Selzer, M.D., Physician/Author

1997
“When the Brain Came Out of the Skull”
Robert Martesen, M.D.

1996
“The Development of Literature in the Medical Curriculum”
Anne Hudson Jones, M.D.

1995
“Don't Listen to the Cry Babies, Medicine Remains the Noblest of Professions”
Joe Wilder, M.D., Artist

1994
“Surgeon as Writer”
Richard Selzer, M.D., Physician/Author

The School of Medicine, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Medical Society Board of Trustees, established the Marjorie S. Sirridge, M.D. Outstanding Women in Medicine Lectureship in 1997. It recognized Dr. Sirridge’s dedication, compassion and advancement of patient care and medical education in Kansas City. Through a yearly lectureship each fall, medical professionals, students, residents and the local community gained access to information regarding issues affecting women in medicine and women’s health care.

2019
September 19, 2019
“TMW: A Public Health Approach to Early Learning”
Dana Suskind, M.D.

2018
September 20, 2018
“Tool Kit for Success”
Panel:
Stephanie Ellison, M.D. UMKC
Rebecca Pauly, M.D. UMKC
Brenda Rogers, M.D. UMKC
Jill Moormeier, M.D. UMKC
Mary Anne Jackson, M.D. UMKC
Scott Ellison, M.D., Shawnee Mission Medical Center

2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
“Intimate Partner Violence”
Carol Stanford, M.D.

2016
Thursday, September 15th
“Ethics in Reproductive Medicine”
Susan Mou, M.D.

2015
Thursday, September 10th
“Resilience”
Julie A. Freischlag, M.D.

2014
Thursday, September 18th
“Women of the UMKC School of Medicine over Four Decades”
Bette Drees, M.D., F.A.C.P.

2013
Thursday, September 19th
“Pride and Presence: Narratives of Women Physicians and their Daughters”
Denise Davis, M.D.

2012
Thursday, September 27th
“Evolution of a Career in Leadership: A Personal Story”
Barbara F. Atkinson, M.D.

2011
“For the Love of Babies: One Doctor’s Stories About Life in the Neonatal ICU”
Sue Hall, M.D.

2010
"Quackery to Stereotactic& Cyberknife"
Vickie Massey, M.D.

2009
“Trailblazing: Do We Still Need It For the 21st Century?”
Nancy W. Dickey, M.D.

2008
“View from a Year Inside the Beltway:  The Quality and Patient Safety Engine:  What is it and where is it Going?”
Susan Pingleton, M.D.

2007
“Ethical and Moral Challenges in
Missouri Medicine: Physician
Fraud/Abuse/Malpractice and
Addictions Update”
Jean Hausheer, M.D.

2006
“Lessons Learned”
Lois Margaret Nora, M.D., J.D.

2005
“Cardiovascular Disease in Women”
Tracy Stevens, M.D.

2004
"Premature Birth: Implications and Research Advances"
Catherine Y. Spong, M.D.

2003
“Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”
Sara E. Walker, M.D.

2002
“Advances in Women’s Medicine”
Holly L. Thacker, M.D., FACP, (1986 UMKC School of Medicine Graduate)

2001
“Ceremony Medicine: Ancient Wisdom for Healing”
Lori Arviso-Alvord, M.D.

2000
“Women in Medicine: Seeking Balance in an Unbalanced World”
Ellen S. More, Ph.D.

1999
“Women in Medicine: Outstanding Women in Medicine”
Frances Conley, M.D., Neurosurgeon

1998
“Health Related Behaviors of Female Physicians”
Erica Frank, M.D.