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Reba Michels Hill Lectureship

Past Lectures

The following list of lectures from years past provides a historical perspective to the Reba Michels Hill Lectureship.

Titles and affiliations of the speakers are those at the time the lecture was given and might not be current.

8th Annual: November 9, 2007

Speaker: Sherin U. Devaskar, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA & Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, Los Angeles CA

Title: Circle of Life—Do the Beginnings Predict the Ending?

7th Annual: November 3, 2006

Speaker: Saroj Saigal, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Growth & Development Clinic, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Title: When they are 24! Extremely low birthweight infants grow up

6th Annual: November 11, 2005

Speaker: Satish Kalhan, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH

Director, Robert Schwartz, M.D., Center for Metabolism and Nutrition, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland OH

Titles: Impact of maternal nutrition on the neonates, Glutamine supplementation in the neonate

5th Annual: November 12, 2004

Speaker: M. Jeffrey Maisels, M.D.

Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak MI

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University Medical Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Detroit MI

Title: Hyperbilirubinemia—the New American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines: preventing kernicterus and Clinical studies in hyperbilirubinemia

4th Annual: November 6, 2003

Speakers: Joseph A. Garcia-Prats, M.D., and Catherine Musco Garcia-Prats, M.D.

Parents of 10 sons and authors of Good families don't just happen: What we learned from raising our 10 sons and how it can work for you

Title: The joys and challenges of parenting

3rd Annual: November 15, 2002

Speaker: Robert Ward, M.D.

Director, Pediatric Pharmacology, University Medical Center, Salt Lake City UT

Title: Should we study new drugs in children?

2nd Annual: November 9, 2001

Speaker: Marianne Neifert, M.D.

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO

Consultant, HealthONE Alliance Lactation Program, Denver CO

Title: Preventing breastfeeding failure: Risk factors and remedies for insufficient milk

1st Annual: February 15, 2000

Speaker: Stephen H. Hamerdinger

Director of Deaf Services, Missouri Department of Mental Health, Jefferson City MO

Title: Newborn hearing screen and deafness as a culture