Robert M. Rogers, MD, Lectureship
The Robert M. Rogers, MD, Lectureship was established in 2001 to honor the career of Dr. Robert M. Rogers, the former Chief and Professor of Medicine of the PACCSM Division. This lectureship highlights Dr. Rogers’s longstanding commitment to physician education and fellowship training with a different speaker each year chosen by the fellows of the PACCSM Training Program.
2026
The next Robert M. Rogers, MD, Lectureship will take place on Friday, June 5, 2026. Details forthcoming!
Dr. David S. Wilkes with PACCSM fellows after the 2025 lecture.
Past Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Appointment (At Time of Lectureship) | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 13, 2025 | David S. Wilkes, MD | Dean Emeritus, James Carroll Flippin Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University of Virginia School of Medicine | A Career in Academic Medicine: Lessons Learned for Success |
| June 7, 2024 | Lynn M Schnapp, MD, ATSF | George R. And Elaine Love Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Exploring ARDS and the Crucial Role of Pericytes in Lung Injury and Repair |
| June 9, 2023 | Peter Chen, MD | Professor of Medicine and Medallion Chair in Molecular Medicine, Director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles. | Surviving viral pandemics: The host response to respiratory viral infections |
| June 17, 2022 | Zea Borok, MD | Helen M. Ranney Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego | Beyond the Barrier: Alveolar epithelium in Health and Disease |
| June 4, 2021 | Mark W. Geraci, MD | Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research, Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh | Lung Cancer Chemoprevention: Implications for Early Carcinogenesis |
| June 19, 2020 | Patty J. Lee, MD | Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Division Chief of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Duke University Medical Center | Healing Breath |
| June 14, 2019 | G.R. Scott Budinger, MD | Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Airway Diseases and Division Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | Understanding Aging Through the Prism of Alveolar Macrophages |
| June 8, 2018 | Bruce R. Pitt, PhD | Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health, Bioengineering, and Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh | Fellow Traveler with PACCM: From A to Z(inc) |
| June 9, 2017 | Sharon I. Rounds, MD | Professor of Medicine and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown Medical School | Smoking and ARDS |
| June 10, 2016 | Augustine M.K. Choi, MD | Interim Dean and Sanford I. Weill Chairman and Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College | Cytoprotection and Therapeutics in Lung Disease: From Gaseous Molecules to Autophagy |
| June 12, 2015 | Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD | Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professorship in Internal Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco | Management of IPF: Where Are We Today? |
| June 6, 2014 | Patricia W. Finn, MD | Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago | Emerging Immune Pathways: A Career in Academic Medicine |
| June 7, 2013 | Joe G.N. Garcia, MD | Earl M. Bane Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Bioengineering and Vice President for Health Affairs, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System | Using Systems Biology to Personalize Critical Care |
| June 1, 2012 | Serpil Erzurum, MD | Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute | Cellular Respiration in Lung Diseases |
| June 3, 2011 | J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH | Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, University of Washington, Seattle | Integrating Palliative and Critical Care: Opportunities for Quality Improvement |
| June 4, 2010 | Charles Natanson, MD | Senior Investigator and Head of Anesthesia Section, Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health | Pitfalls in Clinical Trial Design in Critically Ill Patients |
| May 29, 2009 | Galen B. Toews, MD | Professor of Chief of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and Associate Dean for Research, University of Michigan Medical School | Pulmonary Fibroproliferative Disorders: A Playground of Progenitor Cells |
| June 1, 2007 | Aron B. Fisher, MD | Professor of Physiology and Environmental Medicine and Director of the Institute for Environmental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | The Important Role of Peroxiredoxin VI, a Novel Bi-functional Enzyme, in Lung Anti-oxidant Defense and Surfactant Homeostasis |
| June 2, 2006 | Richard J. Martin, MD | Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center | Asthma is an Infectious Disease |
| June 10, 2005 | James C. Hogg, MD, PhD | Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia | Small Airways Revisited, the Nature of Airflow Limitation in COPD |
| June 1, 2004 | Adam Wanner, MD | Division Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Joseph Weintraub Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami School of Medicine | Hormonal Regulations of Airway Blood Flow |
| June 5, 2003 | Michael A. Matthay, MD | Professor of Medicine and Anesthesia, University of California at San Francisco | Resolution of Pulmonary Edema: New Insights |
| April 26, 2002 | Marvin I. Schwarz, MD | James C. Campbell Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Head, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado | Fibroproliferation: A New Therapeutic Target for the Treatment of IPF |
| May 3, 2001 | Leonard Hudson, MD | Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington | Ventilator Induced Lung Injury |