Annual Lectures

Saxon Graham.
  • Remembering Dr. Graham
    1/19/18
    There is a great deal of evidence now that diet affects cancer risk. That connection wasn’t obvious, though, in the 1950s, when Buffalo-born researcher L. Saxon Graham began breaking new ground in cancer epidemiology. Over the next half-century, Graham contributed some of the most important research on diet and cancer.
  • Lecturers
    3/12/24
    Hosted by the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, the Saxon Graham Lectureship honors the life and legacy of a man known as one of the fathers of U.S. chronic disease epidemiology.
Glen E. Gresham.
  • Visiting Professorship and Lecture
    8/3/17
    In the spring of 2011, the School of Public Health and Health Professions hosted its inaugural Glen E. Gresham Visiting Professor in Rehabilitation Science, a position endowed by the late Albert C. Rekate, a veteran UB medical school faculty member, and his wife, Linda.
Richard V. Lee.
  • Richard V. Lee Lectureship
    9/23/19
    The School of Public Health and Health Professions has established an annual lectureship, focused on aspects of global health, to honor Richard V. Lee, MD, MPH, former faculty member at the University at Buffalo.
J. Warren Perry.
  • Perry Lecturers
    10/13/23
    The Perry Award and lectureship recognize individuals who have provided exemplary leadership in public health, health professions or the health sciences. Initiated in 1989 by Dean Alan Stull, PhD, the lectureship introduces students, faculty and staff to some of the best leaders and scholars in a variety of fields.