Lectures – Semon Lectures

Year	Lecturer	Topic
2024	Professor Jarrod Homer	“Consensus, Guidelines, and Best Practice: Can We Improve Head and Neck Outcomes Further?”
2023	Mr Shahz Ahmed	“Surgical Excellence – What Can We Learn?”
2022	Professor Lucian Sulica	“Vocal Fold Paralysis Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
2021	Professor Kevin Joseph Harrington	“Will Immunotherapy Put Head and Neck Surgeons Out of Business?”
2020	Professor Johan Fagan	“Laryngectomy Practice Based on Personal Research”
2019	Mr John Watkinson	“From Felix to the Helix, and from the Cradle to the Grave – Semon’s Contribution to Thyroid Surgery”
2018	Professor Anil D’Cruz	“Attempts at Addressing the Head and Neck Conundrum in the Developing World”
2017	Professor Ralph Gilbert	“Experience and Innovation in Head and Neck Surgery”
2016	Professor Janet Wilson	“Semon’s Laryngological Legacy: Acumen, Research and Innovation”
2015	Professor Carl Snyderman	“Paradigm Shifts in Skull Base Surgery and the Creative Process”
2014	Professor Susan Standring	“The Devil is in the Detail”
2013	Professor Ashok Shaha	“Conservation Surgery in Head and Neck Oncology”
2012	Professor Valerie Lund	“Are We Guilty of Over-Treating the Nose?”
2011	Professor Laurent Lantieri	” A Giant Step in Facial Plastic Surgery – the Transplant.”
2010	Professor Gregory Weinstein	“Robotics in Head and Neck Surgery – Added Value or Just Another Toy?”
2009	Professor Randall Morton	“Quality of Life in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer”
2008	Professor Christopher O’Brien	“Skin Cancer – Current Concepts and Personal Experience”
2007	Professor György Lichtenberger	“The Evolution of Surgery for Vocal Cord Palsy”
2006	Professor Jatin Shah	“Diverse Outcomes and Discretionary Decisions in Thyroid Cancer”
2005	Professor Paul Donald	“Advances in the Management of Head and Neck Trauma”
2004	Professor Wolfgang Steiner	“The Evidence for Change in the Management of Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer”
2003	Professor Lauren Holinger	“The Changing Face of Paediatric Airway Intervention”
2002	Dr Margaret Spittle	“Head and Neck Malignancy Skull-base to Clavicles, Who Needs Surgery?”
2001	Professor Jack Gluckman	“Certification, Re-Certification and Maintenance of Certification in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery”
2000	Mr Tony Bull	“Beauty, Form or Function?”
1999	Mr Anthony Cheesman	“Problems and Prospects of Patients with Sinus Neoplasia”
1998	Mr David Soutar	“Evolution of Functional Reconstruction in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery”
1997	Professor Ugo Fisch	“Otologic Implications of Surgery of the Infratemporal Fossa”
1996	Mr Omar Shaheen	“Thyroid Surgery for Tumours”
1995	Professor Alison Perry	“The Physiological Basis of Alaryngeal Speech”
1994	Professor Wolfgang Draf	“History and Practice of Endoscopic Nasal Surgery”
1993	Professor Sean Sellars	“How to Train a Head and Neck Surgeon”
1992	Professor Robin Cotton	“The Role of the Special Centre in Paediatric Laryngology”
1991	Professor Oskar Kleinsasser	“Revision of Classification of Laryngeal Cancer: Is it Long Overdue?”
1990	Professor Arnold Maran	“Science, Skill and Serendipity in Salivary Gland Disease”
1989	Mr Stephen Richards	“Thirty Years of Pituitary Surgery”
1988	Dr Glyn Lloyd	“The Role of Radiology in the Diagnosis of Diseases in the Nose and Throat”
1987	Professor Claus Walter	“The Evolution of Reconstructive Surgery of the Nose”
1986	Professor Philip Stell	“Head and Neck Cancer: Can We Do Any Better?”
1985	Professor Bruce Benjamin	“The Role of the Paediatric Endoscopist”
1984	Mr Henry Shaw	“Palliation in Head and Neck Cancer”
1983	Professor Börje Drettner	“Why Does Research in Rhinology Matter?”
1982	Professor Gerald Westbury	“Current Thoughts on the Management of Cancer of the Tongue”
1981	Professor John Kirchner	“Laryngeal Physiology – a Century After Semon”
1980	Mr Robert Pracy	“Recent Developments in Paediatric Otolaryngology”
1979	Professor Gordon Snow	“Problems in Reconstruction after Surgery for Oral Carcinoma”
1978	Mr Peter Clifford	“The Role of Cytotoxic Drugs in the Surgical Management of Head and Neck Malignancies”
1977	Professor Joseph Ogura	“Orbital Decompression for Progressive Exopthalmos”
1976	Mr Ian McGregor	“Problems of Reconstructive Surgery of the Oral Cavity”
1975	Professor Ettore Bocca	“A Critical Analysis of the Techniques and Value of Neck Dissection”
1974	Professor Sir Donald Harrison	“A Critical Analysis of the Value of Classification in Laryngeal Cancer”
1973	Professor Herman Diamant	“The Investigation and Management of Non-Neoplastic Disease Affecting the Salivary Glands”
1972	Professor Ronald Belsey	“Congenital Anomalies of the Oesophagus”
1971	Professor Douglas Bryce	“The Surgical Management of Laryngo-tracheal Injuries”
1970	Professor Imrich Friedmann	“The Changing Pattern of Granulomas of the Upper Respiratory Tract”
1969	Dr Max Som	“Conservation Surgery for Cancer of the Larynx”
1968	Dr Manuel Lederman	“Carcinoma of the Larynx, its Natural History and Treatment“
1967	Mr David Patey	“Diseases and Disorders of the Salivary Glands in Relation to General Physiology and Pathology”
1966	Dr John Conley	“The Treatment of Melanoma in the Head and Neck”
1965	Mr John Angell-James	“Laboratory and Clinical Studies of the Hypophysis”
1964	Mr Thomas Wilson	“The Aetiology of Chronic Nasal Sinusitis in Children”
1963	Professor Sir Charles Stuart-Harris	“Acute Respiratory Virus Infections of Childhood”
1962	Professor Carl-Axel Hamberger	“Transantrosphenoidal Hypophysectomy”
1961	Mr Charles Wilson	“Pharyngeal Diverticula, Their Cause and Treatment”
1960	Dr Paul Holinger	“Clinical Aspects of Congenital Anomalies of the Larynx, Trachea, Bronchi and Oesophagus”
1959	Professor Victor Lambert	“Malignant Disease of the Post Nasal Space”
1958	Professor Lucius Rüedi	“Some Observations on the Histology and Functions of the Larynx”
1957	Mr Frederick Capps	“Abductor Paralysis – Theory and Practice Since Semon”
1956	Professor Georges Portmann	“The Physiology of Phonation”
1955	Lord Edgar Adrian	“The Action of the Mammalian Olfactory Organ”
1954	Professor Eelco Huizinga	“Bronchological Pneumonology”
1953	Professor Frank Ormerod	“The Management of Cancer of the Larynx”
1952	Dr Arthur Proetz	“Clinical Aspects of Respiratory Air Currents”
1951	Dr Macdonald Critchley	“Articulatory Defects in Aphasia”
1950	Dr Paul Freckner	“The Development and the Present Use of Bronchospirometry”
1949	Mr Andrew Wright	“Tonsilar Function – A Review of the Evidence”
1948	Mr George Martin	“Broncho-Oesophagology in Great Britain – The Decline of a Science: A Plea for Better Co-operation and Teaching”
1947	Mr Edward Davis	“The Applied Anatomy and Physiology of the Pharynx and Oesophagus”
	WORLD WAR II
1939	Professor Felix Nager	“The Paranasal Approach to Intrasellar Tumours”
1938	Mr William Mollison	“Laryngology’s Debt to Research”
1937	Professor Ernst Schmiegelow	“The Surgical Treatment of Chronic Cicatricial Stenosis of the Larynx”
1936	Mr Walter Howarth	“Some Tumours and Ulcers of the Palate and Fauces”
1935	Sir St Clair Thompson	“The Defences of the Air Passages”
1934	Mr Herbert Tilley	“Inflammation of the Maxillary Antrum and Other Accessory Sinuses (Some Clinical Manifestations of its Pathology)”
1933	Professor Hendrik Burger	“The So-Called Associated Paralyses of the Larynx (Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsy)”
1932	Professor Otto Kahler	“The Tonsil Problem”
1931	Mr William Harmer	“The Relative Value of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Cancers in the Upper Air Passages”
1930	Mr Victor Negus	“Some Observations on Semon’s Law”
1929	Dr Haris Mosher	“The Lower End of the Oesophagus at Birth and in the Adult”
1928	Professor Markuss Hajek	“Laryngo-Rhinology and General Medicine”
1927	Mr Lionel Colledge	“The Present Position of Laryngoctomy for Cancer of the Larynx”
1926	Dr Adam Kelly	“Nervous Affections of the Oesophagus”
1925	Dr Patrick Watson-Williams	“The Toll of Chronic Nasal Focal Sepsis on Body and Mind”
1924	Dr Jean Guisez	“Malignant Diseases of the Oesophagus”
1923	Dr Arthur Turner	“The Advancement of Laryngology: A Plea for Adequate Training and a Closer Co-operative Action”
1922	Professor Herbert Birkett	“The Development of the Trans-Atlantic Rhino-Laryngology”
1921	Dr Walter Jobson-Horne	“The Relationship of the Larynx to Pulmonary Tuberculosis”
	WORLD WAR I
1914	Professor Gustav Killian	“Suspension Laryngoscopy and its Practical Use”
1913	Dr Peter McBride	“Sir Felix Semon, His Work and its Influence on Laryngology”