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