​Birnberg Lecturers and Award Recipients

2023

Muredach Reilly, MBBCH, MSCE
"Interdisciplinary Models of Translational Research and Training"

2022

Rita Charon, MD, PhD
"The Outcomes of Narrative Training for Health Care Professionals"

2021

Anil K. Rustgi, MD
"Hereditary GI Cancer Syndromes"

2019

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
"Engineering Human Tissues for Medical Impact"

2018

Jeannette M. Wing, MD, MS
"A Conversation About Computational Thinking"

2017

George Hripcsak, MD, MS
"Reproducibility of Observational Research"

2016

Rena D'Souza, DDS, MS, PhD
"Novel Treatment Strategies for Craniofacial Disorders"

2016

Rena D'Souza, DDS, MS, PhDk, MD, MS
"Novel Treatment Strategies for Craniofacial Disorders."

2015

Laurie McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD
“Macrophages: New Players in Bone Metabolism and Metastasis“

2014

Henry Ginsberg, MD
"How the Irving Institute Supports Columbia Investigators Across the Full Range of Research"

2013

Peter J. Polverini, DMD, DMSc
"Limiting Tumor Progression & Overcoming Drug Resistance by Targeting Angiogenesis"

2012

R. Bruce Donoff, DMD, MD
"The Medical Treatment of Surgical Disease"

2011

Michael Longaker, MD, MBA, FACS
"Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: A Surgeon's Perspective"

2010

Sally Marshall, PhD
"Remineralization of Dentin"

2009

Deborah Greenspan, BDS, DSc
"Global Oral Health: Implications of the HIV Pandemic"