Leland Blanchard Memorial Lecture

The Leland Blanchard Memorial Lecture was established in memory of Leland Blanchard, MD, in 1979. Dr Blanchard was a major contributor to the development of family medicine and was a charter member of STFM. This lecture is a program component of each STFM Annual Spring Conference.

Past Blanchard Lecturers

2008: The Challenge of Practice Variations and the Future of Primary Care”—John Wennberg, MD, MPH
2007: A Community Leading Change–Fulfilling the STFM Vision”—Kevin Grumbach, MD
2006: The Challenging Face of Primary Care—Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH
2005: The End of the Beginning: The Redesign Imperative in FM—Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH
2004: Academia and the Care of the Chronically Ill—Edward Wagner, MD, WA
2003: Family Medicine and the Surgeon General Who Listened—David Satcher MD, PhD
2002: Medical Education for Compassion and Meaning: Stressproofing the     Young—Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
2001: Practical Idealism: What’s Rembrandt Got to Do With It?”—Ruth Hart, MD
2000: Genes, Diseases, and the Practice of Medicine in the Year 2000—Holmes Morton, MD
1999: Everything I Learned About Leadership  From Sitting Around the Dining Room Table—John Molidor, PhD
1998: Social Responsibilities of Faculty in Family Medicine—Audrey Manley, MD, MPH
1997: From the Valley Floor to the Mountain Peak: FM on the Move—Nancy Wilson Dickey, MD
1996: Family Medicine in the Way Station Called Managed Care—William Jacott, MD
1995: The Community Origins of Family Practice—Theodore Phillips, MD
1994: Medical Education, Status, and Scholarship: Reassessing What Is Valued as Scholarly Work—R. Eugene Rice, PhD
1993: The Reemergence of the Generalist as Researcher—Sheldon Greenfield, MD
1992: STFM: The Once and Future—Lynn Carmichael, MD
1991: Caring and Curing: Striking the Right Balance—Daniel Callahan, PhD
1990: Leadership in Family Medicine—Fitzhugh Mayo, MD
1989: The Primary Care Physician and Resource Allocation: What Is the Job Description—Christine Cassel, MD
1988: Health Care in the Future: A Federal Perspective—US Senator Orrin Hatch
1987: Healthy Families: An Essential Investment for a Successful Nation—Willis Goldbeck
1986: Rites of Spring for FM: Discontent, Discon-tinuity, and Discovery—Robert Graham, MD
1985: Barnacles, Ballast, and Balance—B. Lewis Barnett, Jr, M
1984: What’s True About What’s New?—G. Gayle Stephens, MD
1983: Competition—Paul Brucker, MD
1982: FM’s Golden Opportunity: Will the Challenge Be Accepted?—Curtis Hames, MD
1981: The Doctor’s Image—John Lister, MA, MD
1980: Truth Telling in Medicine—Sissela Bok, PhD
1979: The Willard Report Revisited—C.H. William Ruhe, MD