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2011 Pamela Lipsett Passing in the Night: A Tipping Point in Surgical Training
2010 Henri R. Ford Answering the Call to Action: Response to the January 12, 2010 Haiti Earthquake
2009 Lena M. Napolitano Perspectives in Surgical Infections: What Does the Future Hold?
2008 Stephen F. Lowry The Value of Connections
2007 John C. Marshall Coming of Age
2006 Timothy R. Billiar Making Progress in an Enlightened Era: Opportunities and Obstacles
2005 Edwin A. Deitch Surgical Infection: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
2004 Philip S. Barie "Oh Lord! I've Got Those Clincial Research Blues"
2003 Michael A. West Knowledge & Truth: Answers or Questions?
2002 Ronald V. Maier Evolution Did Not Plan on Survival in the ICU: The Role of the Macrophage
2001 Donald E. Fry In Veritas Vino
2000 Mark A. Manangoni Providence
1999 Irshad H. Chaudry Sepsis: Lessons Learned in the Last Century and Future Directions
1998 E. Patchen Dellinger Surgical Infection Society: Trials and Tribulations
1997 Ori D. Rotstein Exploring the Past and Charting the Future
1996 Nicholas V. Christou Host Defense Mechanisms in Surgical Patients: Firend or Foe?
1995 Josef E. Fischer We Hold These Truths...
1994 Richard J. Howard Academic Medicine and the Future of Academic Medicine and Academic Societies
1993 David L. Dunn History Repeats itself. Connections and causality in the study of surgical infections
1992 Douglas W. Wilmore The Surgeon and Intestinal Bacteria: Reconsideration of OurRelationship
1991 Roger W. Yurt The Making of a Surgeon Revisited
1990 Robert E. Condon Retrospect and Prospect: Rumination After the First Decade of the Surgical Infection Society
1989 Jonathan L. Meakins Surgeons, Surgery and Immunomodulation
1988 Richard L. Simmons Just say yes to NO
1987 William S. Blakemore Postresidency Fellowships: An investment in the Future
1986 J. Wesley Alexander Old Problems, New and Persistent Challenges
1985 Basil A. Pruitt Host-Opportunist Interactions in Surgical Infections
1984 Jonathan E. Rhoads William A. Altemeier, M.D.: Surgeon and Bacteriologist
1983 John F. Burke Ashley A. Miles and the Prevention of Infection Following Surgery
1982 William R. Sandusky Frank L. Meleney: Pioneer Surgeon-Bacteriologist
1981 Willaim A. Altemeier Sepsis in Surgery
SIS Presidential Addresses with publication citations
Altemeier WA. Sepsis in surgery. Presidential address. Arch Surg 1982;117:107-112.

Sandusky WR. Frank L. Meleney: pioneer surgeon-bacteriologist. Arch Surg 1983;118:151-155. (may or may not be the SIS address)

Burke JF. Ashley A. Miles and the prevention of infection following surgery. Presidential address. Arch Surg. 1984;119:17-19.

Rhoads JE. William A. Altemeier, MD: surgeon and bacteriologist. Presidential address. Arch Surg 1985;120:13-16.

Pruitt BA Jr. Host-opportunist interactions in surgical infection. Arch Surg.;121:13-22. (may or may not be the SIS address)

Alexander JW. Old problems, new and persistent challenges: presidential address. Arch Surg 1987;122:15-20.

Blakemore WS. Postresidency fellowships: an investment in the future. Presidential address. Arch Surg 1988;123:147-51.

Unable to locate the Simmons presidential address.

Meakins JL. Surgeons, surgery, and immunomodulation. Arch Surg 1991;126:494-498.

Condon RE. Retrospect and prospect. Ruminations after the first decade of the Surgical Infection Society. Arch Surg.1991;126:19-22.

Yurt RW. The making of a surgeon revisited. Arch Surg 1992;127:16-20.

Unable to locate the Wilmore presidential address.

Dunn DL. History repeats itself. Connections and causality in the study of surgical infections. Arch Surg 1994;129:21-26.

Howard RJ. May you live in interesting times. Academic medical centers, academic societies, and the coming dominance of government and business in American medicine. Arch Surg 1994;129:1123-1130.

Fischer JE. We hold these truths.... Arch Surg 1995;130:1156-1158.

Christou NV. Host defense mechanisms of surgical patients. Friend or foe? Arch Surg 1996;131:1136-1140.

Rotstein OD. Exploring the past, charting the future. Arch Surg 1997;132:1160-1164.

Dellinger EP. Surgical Infection Society--trials and tribulations: the importance of clinical trials. Arch Surg 1998;133(11):1192-1197.

Chaudry IH. Sepsis: lessons learned in the last century and future directions. Arch Surg 1999;134:922-929.

Malangoni MA. Providence: Surgical Infection Society 2000. Shock 2000;14:249-252.

Fry DE. In vino veritas. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2001;2:185-191.

Maier presidential address was never published.

West MA. Knowledge and truth: answers or questions? Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2003;4:297-309.

Barie PS. Oh Lord! I've got those clinical research blues. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2004;5:327-342.

Deitch EA. Surgical Infection Society presidential address: is the glass half full or half empty? Thoughts on the SIS and American surgery. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2006 Feb;7:5-14.

Billiar TR. Making progress in an enlightened era: opportunities and obstacles. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2007;8:5-14.

Marshall JC. Coming of Age. Surg Infect 2008 Apr;9(2):111-20.

Lowry SF. The Value of Connections. Surg Infect 2009 Surg Infect 2009 Mar;10(1):1-8..

Napolitano LM. Perspectives in Surgical Infections: What Does the Future Hold? Surg Infect 2010;11(2): 111-123..


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