Alan DeForest Smith Memorial Lecture

Dr. Alan DeForest Smith, former chair of Columbia Orthopedics, 1940-1956

The Alan DeForest Smith Memorial Lecture was established in honor of an orthopedic surgeon who dedicated his career to the achievement of excellence in medical education and patient care. Dr. Smith directed the New York Orthopaedic Hospital from 1940 to 1956, a time of critical transition for the Hospital. It was during these years that NYOH joined the family of hospitals known as Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, a collaboration which has proved most fruitful. Dr. Frank E. Stinchfield, Dr. Smith’s successor, initiated the tradition whereby the Alan DeForest Smith Memorial Lecture is given at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital Alumni meetings by a visiting professor prominent in the field of orthopedic surgery.

Honorees

1957	Bradley L. Coley	The Conservative Treatment of Certain Musculoskeletal Neoplasms
1958	Robert L. Coley	The Teaching of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Future
1959	Philip D. Wilson	Surgical Reconstruction Following Resection for Tumor
1961	Carl E. Badgley	The Chronically Disabling Knee Joint
1962	Otto E. Aufrane	Prevention and Management of Infections of the Hip
1963	Robert A. Robinson	Structure of the Calcific Deposits in Tendonous Attachments to the Bone
1964	Charles H. Herdon	Studies in Bone Transplantation
1965	Albert B. Ferguson	Streamlining Degenerative Disease
1967	W. J. W. Sharrard	Myelodysplasia, and Overall Concept
1968	William T. Green	Cerebral Palsy
1969	Walter P. Blount	Fractures in Children Are Different
1970	G. Dean MacEwen	Diagnosis & Treatment of Congenital Dislocation & Dysplasia of the Hip
1971	Harold M. Frost	Mechanical Determinants of Skeletal Architecture
1972	Charles F. Gregory	Orthopaedic Education: Past, Present, and Future
1973	Harold B. Boyd	The Role of Fibrous Tissue in the Prevention of Bone Formation
1974	Thomas E. Whitesides	Transfibular Fasciotomy for Injuries
1975	Alfred R. Shands	Charles Fayette Taylor and His Times
1976	Floyd H. Jergensen	Post-Operative Infections of the Hip Joint: To Lay the Joint Aside
1977	Sawnie R. Gaston	The Other Side of the Family
1978	Carter R. Rowe	Recent Advances in the Instability of the Shoulder
1979	Sir John Charnley	The Wear of Plastic Materials in the Hip Joint
1980	John J. Gartland	Challenges You Could Do Without
1981	William MacAusland	And Gladly Teach-But What?
1982	Howard H. Steel	The Troika of Pelvic Problems
1983	Richard L. Cruess	Hemiarthroplasty of the Hip
1984	J. William Fielding	History and Development of Cervical Spine Surgery
1985	Robert E. Carroll	The Care and Training of A Hand Surgeon
1986	Theodore R. Waugh	Reconstruction of the Ankle
1987	Albert H. Bernstein	Analysis of Forces and Moments Acting on the Body
1988	David S. Howell	Interleukin I: A Puppeteer in Connective Tissue
1989	Leonard Marmor	History of the Presbyterian Hospital Fracture Service
1991	Roby C. Thompson	Progress and Change: 100 to 125 Years
1993	Charles S. Neer, II	Fifty Years Later
1995	William G. Hamilton	Ballet Injuries: Twenty Years Experience
1997	Frank C. Wilson	Levin of Letter
2001	Stephen Copeland	Evolution of Surface Replacement Arthroplasty of the Shoulder
2003	Bernard F. Morrey	Current Concepts: Reconstructive Surgery of the Elbow
2005	Herbert Resch	New Considerations in the Treatment of Severe Humeral Head Fractures
2007	Frank Jobe & Tommy John	Tommy John on Tommy John Surgery: An Athlete’s Experience
2009	Thomas S. Thornhill	Lessons Learned in 25 Years of Total Knee Arthroplasty
2011	Gary E. Friedlaender	Leadership in the Time of Cholera
2016	Alexander R. Vaccaro	Choosing to Go into Academic Medicine: The Journey and Its Ups and Downs
2018	Kurt P. Spindler	Linking MOON, MARS, MeTeOR to Your Bright Future
2023	John M. Flynn	Orthopaedic Surgeon: A Great Way to be Useful to Others
2025	Serena Hu, MD	Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A History of the Treatment of Spine Deformity