E. Garner King Memorial Lectures
The E. Garner King memorial lecture honours the legacy of a great leader, physician, teacher, and scholar, whose life continues to inspire the work within the Department of Medicine today.
2023 E. Garner King Memorial Lecture
Navigating Life After a Global Pandemic
By Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, Critical Care Physician, University of Ottawa and Host of the Solving Healthcare Prodcast.
This event received funding from the WF Brown Endowment fund.
About Dr. E. Garner King
Dr. E Garner King obtained his MD (with distinction) from the University of Alberta in 1963, and he completed his postgraduate training at the University of Alberta, The Banting Institute in Toronto, and the University of Colorado Medical Center.
Dr. King joined the University of Alberta as Assistant Professor and Director of the University of Alberta Hospitals Intensive Care Unit in 1971. He trained many first generation critical care physicians in Canada as well as a large number from other countries. He was named a full professor in 1981 and was appointed Chairman of the Department of Medicine (in 1986) after an international search.
As the Chair of Medicine, his vision and determination created a firm direction for the Department; he encouraged excellence, reorganized the Department's finances, and attracted many new academic staff from the world over. The University and the affiliated teaching hospitals will continue to feel the impact of his presence for many years.
Previous Lectures
- 28th Annual Lecture (2022)
Dr. Verna Yu - The COVID War: Road to Recovery, Rebuilding and Reimagining our Healthcare System - 27th Annual Lecture (2020)
Dr. Marcia Anderson - Scholarship as Disruption in Indigenous Health - 26th Annual Lecture (2019)
Dr. Lewis E. Kay - The Importance of Protein Dynamics in Health and Disease - 25th Annual Lecture (2017)
Dr. Josephine Briggs - Facts and Uncertainties: Science and the Art of Medicine - 24th Annual Lecture (2016)
Mr. Alan Alda - Getting Beyond a Blind Date with Science - 23rd Annual Lecture (2015)
Dr. Peter Agre - Opening Doors Worldwide through Medical Science - 22nd Annual Lecture (2014)
Dr. Douglas Bettcher - Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Global Health Development: Public Health History in the Making - 21st Annual Lecture (2013)
Dr. Lorne Tyrrell - The importance of the spectrum of research in viral hepatitis from discovery to commercialization - 20th Annual Lecture (2012)
Mr. Joseph Boyden - Three Solitudes - 19th Annual Lecture (2011)
Dr. Oliver Smithies - On Being a Basic Scientist for 60 Years - 18th Annual Lecture (2010)
Mr. Stephen Lewis - From Here to There: Insights on the World of International Development - 17th Annual Lecture (2009)
Dr. Chaviva Hošek - Health as a Social Phenomenon - 16th Annual Lecture (2009)
Dr. Roberta Bondar - Space Medicine, International Cooperation and Political Agendas - 15th Annual Lecture (2007)
Dr. Wendy Levinson - Disclosing Medical Errors: A Challenge for Physicians and Institutions
- 14th Annual Lecture (2006)
Senator Michael J. L. Kirby - The Future Shape of Canada's Healthcare System - 13th Annual Lecture (2005)
Dr. C. David Naylor - Leadership in Medicine: Random Reflections from Administrative Exile - 12th Annual Lecture (2004)
Dr. Janet Rossant - Stem Cells and Developmental
Pathways - 11th Annual Lecture (2003)
Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen - Publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine - 10th Annual Lecture (2002)
Dr. Didier Raoult - How to Discover a New Infectious Disease - 9th Annual Lecture (2001)
Dr. Alan Bernstein - Genomics and its Impact on the Health Care System in the 21st Century - 8th Annual Lecture (2000)
Dr. Peter E. Lipsky - New Insights into the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis - 7th Annual Lecture (1999)
Dr. Albert J. Aguayo - Can the Brain Regenerate Following Injury? - 6th Annual Lecture (1998)
Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock - The Hepatitis Alphabet - 5th Annual Lecture (1997)
Dr. Eric Topol - Coronary Reperfusion: Novel Frontiers for the Next Millennium - 4th Annual Lecture (1996)
Dr. John Kelton - The Reticuloendothelial System: Where the Teleological Rubber Hits the Physiological Road - 3rd Annual Lecture (1995)
Dr. Mitchell L. Halperin - Genesis, Exodus, Numbers: A Testament to the Old and a Reverence for the New - 2nd Annual Lecture (1994)
Dr. Arnold Aberman - Medicine with Borders: The Growing Isolation of Canadian Medicine - 1st Annual Lecture (1993)
Dr. Tom Noseworthy - The Evolution and Future of Critical Care: A Tribute to E. Garner King