Kergin Lecturers
The Kergin Lecture is named in the memory of Frederick Gordon Kergin, who was Chair of the Department of Surgery of the University of Toronto and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital from 1957 to 1966. He was a pioneer of thoracic surgery in Canada and was President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. In 1966 he was appointed Associate Dean in the Faculty of Medicine and was responsible for developing a new undergraduate curriculum and planning the conversion of Sunnybrook Hospital to a teaching institution with full-time faculty. Dr. Kergin chaired the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Surgery for many years and served as a trustee of the R.S. McLaughlin Foundation. His major contribution to this hospital and the University was in education, particularly in structuring the residency programs such that an integrated program amongst all fully hospitals was established. He died in 1974. Professor Kergin was a man with eclectic interests that included teaching, research and university administration, as well as many outside-of-medicine.
YEAR AWARD WINNERS
1978 Dr. J. Maloney
1979 Dr. A. Patterson
1980 Dr. W. R. Drucker
1981 Dr. R. M. Stone
1982 Dr. B. Langer
1983 Dr. W. Silen
1984 Dr. B. Perey
1985 Dr. E. B. Tovee
1986 Dr. W. O. Griffin
1987 Dr. D. Mulder
1988 Dr. H. Scully
1989 Dr. Walter Pories
1991 Dr. McCollister Evarts
1992 Dr. Luc Deschenes
1993 Dr. R. Y. McMurtry
1994 Dr. John Wade
1995 Col. Richard M. Satava
1996 Dr. LaSalle Lefall, Jr.
1997 Dr. Duncan G. Sinclair
1998 Dr. Nuala Kenny
1999 Dr. Miles F. Shore
2000 Dr. Robert Buckman
2001 Professor David Rowley
2002 Dr. Arnold Aberman
2003 Hon. Michael Kergin
2004 Professor Richard Simmons
2005 Shukri F. Khuri
2006 Professor O. J. Garden
2007 Professor Peter Funch-Jenson
2008 Ms. Rachel North
2009 Hon. David Caplan
2010 Dr. Steven Lowry
2011 Dr. Kellie Leitch & Professor Anne Snowdon
2012 Dr. David Sugarbaker
2013 Dr. Gerald Imber
2014 Dr. Eben Alexander, III
2015 Skeptical Scalpel
2016 Dr. Robert Lorenz
2017 Dr. David C. Naylor
2018 Dr. Richard K. Reznick
2019 Dr. Kenneth Brayman
2020 Dr. Danielle Martin