Dickinson W. Richards Memorial Lecture

Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD, FAHA

2023 Evangelos Michelakis, MD, FAHA, FACC

2022 Clifton W. Callaway, MD, PhD, FAHA
“What happens after the hospital is part of resuscitation care”

2021 Mark Robert Nicolls, MD
"Immune Dysregulation and Inflammation in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"

2020 Kurt R. Stenmark, MD, FAHA
"Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension: Insights, Accomplishments, and Challenges"

2019 Paul M. Hassoun, MD
"The Right Heart in Scleroderma-Associated PAH"

2018 Serpil R. Erzurum, MD
"Metabolic Mechanisms in Pulmonary Hypertension"

2017 Laurie Morrison, MD, MSc
"Advancing Resuscitation Science: A Combination of Courage, Compassion, Collaboration, Carpe Diem and a Little Grace"

2016 Norbert Voelkel, MD
"The Angiogenesis Paradox In Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Misguided In The Lung, Impaired In The Heart"

2015 Thomas Rea, MD, MPH
CPR Science: Discovery and Implementation

2014 Werner Seeger, MD
"Treatment of pulmonary hypertension – the past and the future"

2013 Paul Chan, MD, MSc
"Research Priorities for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: An Agenda for the Next Decade"

2012 Mark Gladwin, MD
"Haldane, Hot Dogs, & Halitosis: The Anion Nitrate as an Intrinsic Hypoxic Signaling Molecule and New Therapy For Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"

2011 Petter Andreas Steen, MD, PhD, FERC
"Improving Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: Fine-tuning or Paradigm Shift?"

2010 S Stephen Archer, MD, FAHA
"The Role of Mitochondria in Pulmonary Hypertension-Warburg Redux"

2009 Karl Kern, MD, FAHA
"Improving Survival from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest"

2008 Asrar Malik, PhD
"Signaling Regulation of Endothelial Barrier Function in Health and Vascular Inflammation"

2007 Fritz Sterz, MD
"To cool or not to cool …?"

2006 Joe G.N. Garcia, MD, FAHA
"Wading in the Genomic Pool for Insights into Lung Pathobiology"

2005 Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, FAHA
"Biological Intervention to Reverse Pulmonary Hypertension"

2004 Kenneth Weir, MD, FAHA
"How the Body Senses Acute Changes in Oxygen"

2003 Lance B. Becker, MD
"Integrating the Three-Phase Time-Sensitive Model of Cardiac Arrest to Improve Resuscitation Outcomes"

2002 Ivan F. McMurtry, PhD
"ROK and RHO in Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension"

2001 Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD
"A Three Phase Temporal Model of Resuscitation Following Cardiac Arrest"

2000 Michael S. Wolin, PhD
"Design and Function of Vascular Oxidant Signaling Mechanisms"

1999 Janice Jones, PhD
"Biphasic Waveforms - Panacea for Out-of-Hospital Defibrillation?"

1998 Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD
"The Biomedicine of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Post Resuscitation Management"

1997 Lewis J. Rubin, MD
"Primary Pulmonary Hypertension: Past, Present and Future"

1996 Homayoun Kazemi, MD
"Cardio-respiratory Interactions and Central Neurotransmitters"

1995 Una S. Ryan
"Endothelium: Friend and Foe"

1994 Charles A Hales, MD
"Heparin and Pulmonary Hypertension"

1993 John T. Reeves, MD
"The Perinatal Lung Circulation: A Matter of Life and Death"

1992 Peter Ward
"Determinants of Inflammatory Injury in the Lung"

1991 Norman C. Staub, MD
"The Cellular Biology of Pulmonary Edema"

1990 Lynne M. Reid, MD
"Control of the Pulmonary Circulation by Restrictive Vascular Remodeling: Oxygen -- Minus Plus"

1989 Gerard M. Turino, MD
"Matrix Mechanisms in Pulmonary Edema"

1988 Aubrey E. Taylor, PhD
"Is Oxygen Good for the Lung? Role of Oxygen Radicals in Pulmonary Edema"

1987 Karlman Wasserman, MD, PhD
"Assessing Cardiovascular Function by Gas Exchange"

1986 Albert L. Hyman, MD
"Neural Regulation of the Pulmonary Vascular Bed"

1985 Solbert Permutt, MD
"Mechanical Interaction of Respiration and Circulation"

1984 Robert F. Grover, MD, PhD
"The Politics of Pulmonary Circulation"

1983 Hermann Rahn, PhD
"New Concepts of Acid-Base Regulation at Normal Body Temperatures and During Hypothermia"

1982 John Butler, MD
"The Heart Is in Good Hands: Cardiopulmonary Interactions"

1981 Richard L. Riley, MD
"A Postscript to Circulation of the Blood: Men and Ideas"

1980 John B. West, MD
"Pulmonary Circulation and Gas Exchange"

1979 Alfred P. Fishman, MD
"Primary Pulmonary Hypertension"

1978 John T. Shepherd, MD
"The Lungs and Heart as Receptor Sites for Cardiovascular Regulation"

1977 Francois Abboud, MD
"Circulatory Adjustments to Hypoxia"

1976 Earl H. Wood, MD, PhD
"New Vistas for Studies of Structural and Functional Dynamics of the Heart, Lungs, and Circulation by Quantitative Imagery"

1975 Arthur C. Guyton, MD
"Basic Dynamics of Body Fluids with Special Reference to the Cardiopulmonary System"

1974 Theodore Cooper, MD
"The Changing Scene in Research and Medicine"

1973 Andre F. Cournand, MD
"Air and Blood - The History of a Unique Collaboration"