Leland Blanchard Memorial Lecture
Leland Blanchard Memorial Lecture was established in memory of Leland Blanchard, MD, in 1979.
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.This program is supported by the STFM Foundation.
Past Lectures
2021–2025
2011–2020
2001–2010
1991–2000
1979–1990
2021–2025
- 2025: Building Equity Into Healthcare AI, From Promise to Practice—Irene Dankwa-Mullan, MD, MPH
- 2024: How Can Family Physicians Organize a Second Counterculture Revolution to Disrupt Our Dysfunctional Systems That Are Not Meeting the Needs of Our Communities and Nation?—Kevin Grumbach, MD
- 2023: Climate Change, Health and Equity—Cheryl Holder, MD
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2022: The Political Determinants of Health: Advocating for Equitable Health Outcomes—Daniel E. Dawes, JD
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2021: Are You Judging Me?: What Patients May Feel But Never Express to their Physicians—Jarvis DeBerry
2011–2020
- 2020: Reflections of a Unicorn—Cedric Bright, MD
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2019: Mālama Honua (Caring for Mother Earth): Lessons Learned About Health, Wellbeing, and the Future of Health Care—Marjorie Leimomi Mala Mau, MD
- 2018: Developing the Moral Obligations of Citizenship—Stephen Black
- 2017: The Dynamics and Processes of the Health of the Latino Population Using Both Quantitative Data and Qualitative Observations—David Hayes-Bautista, PhD
- 2016: Achieving Health Equity: Tools for a National Campaign Against Racism—Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
- 2015: A Brief Ethnography of Family Medicine: Three Stories—Malachi O’Connor, PhD
- 2014: On Being the Fifth and Final: Reflections on Interprofessional Leadership and Change Management—Denise Rodgers, MD
- 2013: Disruptive Innovation and the Transformation of Health Care Systems: What Does It Require of Tomorrow’s Leaders?—Paul E. Plsek
- 2012: The Art of Leadership—William E. Strickland, Jr
- 2011: Engineering Against Nature When Nature Hits Back: The Past and Future of New Orleans—John M Barry
2001–2010
- 2010: How Financial Conflicts Of Interest Endanger Our Profession—Jerome Kassirer, MD
- 2009: The Challenge of Practice Variations and the Future of Primary Care—John Wennberg, MD, MPH
- 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: Stress-proofing the Young—Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
- 2001: Practical Idealism: What’s Rembrandt Got to Do With It?”—Ruth Hart, MD
1991–2000
- 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
1979–1990
- 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, Discontinuity, and Discovery—Robert Graham, MD
- 1985: Barnacles, Ballast, and Balance—B. Lewis Barnett, Jr, MD
- 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
