Cushing Orators
Beginning in 1965 with Louise Eisenhardt, MD, an accomplished guest is invited to present the Cushing Oration each year during the Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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 |