Cushing Orators
Beginning in 1965 with Louise Eisenhardt, MD, an accomplished guest is invited to present the Cushing Oration each year during the AANS Annual Scientific Meeting.
2022 Yo-Yo Ma |
2021 Boyd Varty |
2020 Mike Krzyzewski |
2019 Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD |
2018 General Stan McChrystal |
2017 Meg Whitman |
2016 President George W. Bush |
2015 Charles Krauthammer |
2014 Clayton Christensen |
2013 Chesley B. (Sully) Sullenberger III |
2012 J. Craig Venter, PhD |
2011 Nathaniel Philbrick |
2010 Newt Gingrich, PhD |
2009 Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD |
2008 Douglas Brinkley, MD |
2007 Thomas Friedman |
2006 George F. Will |
2005 Edmund Morris |
2004 Ken Burns |
2003 Henry A. Kissinger, PhD |
2002 Benazir Bhutto |
2001 Tom Brokaw |
2000 Doris Kearns Goodwin |
1999 President George Herbert Walker Bush |
1998 Eric Wieschaus, PhD |
1997 William J. Bennett, PhD |
1996 William F. Buckley Jr. |
1995 General Colin L. Powell |
1994 Beverly Sills |
1993 The Hon. Morris B. Abram, Esq. |
1992 Susan Eisenhower |
1992 Ronald Z. Sagdeev, PhD |
1991 Yevgeny Yevtushenk |
1990 President James Earl Carter Jr. |
1989 Theodore Cooper, MD, PhD |
1988 The Hon. Brian Dickson |
1987 H. Ross Perot |
1986 The Hon. Richard D. Lamm |
1985 Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD |
1984 Robert M. Rosenzweig, PhD |
1983 Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD |
1982 Mortimer J. Adler, PhD |
1981 Julius Axelrod, PhD |
1980 The Hon. Kingman Brewster |
1979 The Hon. Paul Rogers |
1978 C. Rollins Hanlon, MD |
1977 Eli Ginzberg, PhD |
1976 Robert O. Egeberg, MD |
1975 Paul W. McCracken, MD |
1974 Malcolm Moos, PhD |
1973 Wernher von Braun, PhD |
1972 Robert Q. Marston, MD |
1971 Wilder Penfield, MD |
1970 Edwin L. Crosby, MD |
1969 John S. Millis, PhD |
1968 R. Buckminster Fuller, PhD |
1967 William H. Stewart, MD |
1966 Philip Handler, MD |
1965 Louise Eisenhardt, MD |