Gallagher Lectures

The Gallagher Lectures honor J. Roswell Gallagher, MD, FSAHM, the founding president of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. The lectures were designed to provide a forum for outstanding speakers to address the full spectrum of adolescent medicine’s concerns: the biological, the psychological, and the social.

The Gallagher Lecture is typically the opening keynote of the SAHM Annual Meeting.

Year Gallagher Lecturers
2025 Jessica S. Marcella, MPA
Ren Culbreath
2024 Douglas Diekema, MD, MPH
Adam Rapoport, MD, FRCPC, MH.Sc
 Anya Khurana
2023 Lin-Fan Wang, MD, MPH
2022 Adm. Rachel L. Levine, MD
2021 Lourdes A. Rivera, JD
2019 Lynne Jones, OBE, FRCPsych, PhD
2018 Natalia Kanem, MD, MPH
Suzanne Petroni, PhD
2017 Damon Centola, PhD
2016 Ronald Dahl, MD
2015 Richard Settersten, PhD
2014 Beatriz Luna, PhD
2013 Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
2012 Brian R. Flay, DPhil
2011 Stefano Bertozzi, MD, PhD
2010 Gordon Guyatt, MD, MSc, FRCP(c)
2009 Ellen A. Wartella, PhD
2008 Kelly D. Brownell, PhD
2007 Jay Giedd, MD
Kelly J. Kelleher, MD, MPH
2006 Robert Wm. Blum, MD, MPH
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD
2005 Richard P. Keeling, MD
David E. Hayes-Bautista, PhD
2004 J. David Hawkins, PhD
Sarah Brown
2003 Nancy Amidei, MSW
2002 David J. Schonfeld, MD
2001 Carl Bell, MD
Karen Pittman
2000 Mark L. Rosenberg, MD, MPP
James Garbarino, PhD
1999 Laurence Steinberg, PhD
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, PhD
1998 John M. Eisenberg, MD
Joy G. Dryfoss
1997 David Grimes, MD
Debra W. Haffner, MPH
1996 David A. Kessler, MD
1995 Elizabeth Noyes
Jane Fulton, PhD
1994 Michael Medved
Jan Krawitz
1993 Lorraine Klerman, DrPH
1992 Marian Wright Edelman, LLB
Michael L. Rutter, MD
1991 E. Mavis Hetherington, PhD
Frank Furstenberg, Jr., PhD
1990 H. Verdain Barnes, MD
Willard Cates, Jr., MD
1989 Robert J. Haggerty, MD
Manuel Perry, PhD
1988 Donald Ian MacDonald, MD
David Shaffer, MD
1987 King K. Holmes, MD
H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
Abigail English, JD
Richard Jessor, PhD
Felton Earls, MD
1986 Gilbert Forbes, MD
William Crowley, MD
David Elkind, PhD
Robert L. Selman, PhD
John P. Hill, PhD
1985 Adele D. Hofmann, MD
Bernard Towers, MD
James Morrissey, JD
Michael I. Cohen, MD
Robert Haggerty, MD
1983 Francis Johnston, PhD
Johanna Dwyer, DSc
Felix P. Heald, MD
1982 Rick Curry, SJ
Irene Gubrud
Gabriella Molnar, MD
David Shurtleff, MD
1981 Mark Sperling, MD
Beatrix Hamburg, MD
Michael Pyle
Samuel S. Kessel, MD
1980 William A. Belson, PhD
Suzanne Steinmetz, PhD
James G. Garrick, MD
1979 Joseph F. Kett, PhD
Daniel Offer, MD
Michael I. Cohen, MD
1978 Virgil Henson, MD
Saul Levine, MD
David Elkind, PhD
1977 Jennifer Loggie, MD
Anke A. Ehrhardt, PhD
Jerry M. Lewis, MD
1976 Allen W. Root, MD
Derek Miller, MD
Thomas L. Shaffer, MD
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