Previous Sonis lectures have featured the following speakers and topics:
2017 - “Restoring Public Trust in Professional Self-Regulation"
Thomas H. Gallagher, professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington
2015 - "Palliative Care Futurist: Matching Care to Our Patient’s Needs"
Diane E. Meier, director, Center to Advance Palliative Care; co-director, Patty and Jay Baker Palliative Care National Center; Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics; vice-chair for public policy and professor; Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; New York, N.Y.
2014 - “Learning Organizations, Implementation Science and Quality Improvement: Health Services Research at the Crossroads”
Lisa V. Rubenstein, professor of medicine and public health, VA of Greater Los Angeles and UCLA; director, Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support, senior scientist, RAND, Los Angeles, California
2013 - "Will Equity Be Achieved Through Health Care Reform?"
John Ayanian, collegiate professor of internal medicine, professor of health management and policy, professor of health policy; director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University if Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2012 - "The Affordable Care Act and the Broken U.S. Healthcare Delivery System: Strong Medicine or Placebo?"
Ashish Jha, associate professor of health policy and management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
2011 - "Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Essentials"
Harold C. Sox, professor of medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire; editor emeritus, Annals of Internal Medicine
2010 - "Tilting at Windmills: The Quest for Health Reform"
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, associate director, RAND Health, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
2009 - "Chaos and Organization in Healthcare"
Thomas Lee, network president, Partners HealthCare, Boston, Massachusetts
2008 - "Health Care: Solutions without Borders"
Karen Davis, president of The Commonwealth Fund, New York, N.Y.
2007 - "Making Tomorrow's Vision Today's Reality: Improving Patient Safety through Value-Based Health Care"
Carolyn M. Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland
2006 - "Safe, Effective, Efficient, and Compassionate Health Care Without the Need for an Advocate"
Jonathan B. Perlin, undersecretary for health, Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C.
2005 - "What It Will Really Take to Improve Our Nation's Health System"
Stephen M. Shortell, dean, School of Public Health, and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
2003 - "The Geology of the Quality Chasm"
Edward Wagner, director of W.A. MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation; professor of public health and community medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
2002 - "Money, Medicine, and the Physician-Patient Relationship"
Wendy Levinson, professor of medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2001 - "Descent into Hell: Understanding Quality of Life in Cancer from the Researcher-Patient's Perspective"
William M. Tierney, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine; senior research scientist, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indianapolis, Indiana
2000 - "Drug Safety: How Big a Problem? What Can Be Done?"
David W. Bates, professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; chief of the Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 - "Quality of Health Care: Where Will It Be in the Next Century?"
Robert H. Brook, director, RAND Health Sciences Program, Santa Monica, California
1998 - "Improving Physicians' Clinical Decisions: Art or Science?"
Stephen B. Soumerai, associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
1997 - "Quality of Health Care: Where Will It Be in the Next Century?"
Robert H. Brook, director, RAND Health Sciences Program, Santa Monica, California
1996 - "Medical Injury, Malpractice Litigation, and the Cost of Health Care in the United States"
Troyen E. Brennan, professor of medicine, law, and public health, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
1995 - Irwing Redlener, MD
1990's Inaugural Lecture by C. Everette Koop, Surgeon General of the U.S. 1982-1989