| 2012 | James W. Strickland, MD: From the Founders to the Future |
| 2011 | Jesse B. Jupiter, MD: Innovation and Innovators in Surgery: Are Ten Thousand Hours Necessary? |
| 2010 | Andrew J. Weiland, MD: Watch Out! Stay Connected! - The Paradox of the Pursuit of Excellence |
| 2009 | Gary G. Poehling, MD: The Integration of Arthroscopy into Hand Surgery |
| 2008 | Edward A. Nalebuff, MD: Reflections on Fifty Years of Rheumatoid Hand Surgery |
| 2007 | James R. Urbaniak, MD: The Handshake |
| 2006 | Dale C. Smith, PhD: Military Surgery and the Surgery of the Hand |
| 2005 | Donald Palmisano, MD (Canceled); Replaced by former Congressman Thomas Loeffler |
| 2004 | David P. Green, MD: Shoulders of Mortals |
| 2003 | None |
| 2002 | None |
| 2001 | Graham Gumley, MD: Cambodia - A Hand Surgeon's Experience in the Developing World – the richness of caring for the poor |
| 2000 | Michael B. Wood, MD: Dealing with Adversity When They Seem to Change the Game Rules |
| 1999 | Robert A. Chase, MD: Vital Endowments |
| 1998 | Paul W. Brand, MD, England: Low Points in My Surgical Career |
| 1997 | Adrian Flatt, MD, USA: Grasp |
| 1996 | Doris Kearns Goodwin, PhD: The Art of Biography |
| 1995 | Jeffrey Hoffman, PhD: NASA Astronaut |
| 1994 | Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD: Health-care Policy |
| 1993 | Richard G. Eaton, MD: The Narrowest Hinge of My Hand |
| 1992 | Goran Lundborg, MD, Sweden: The Biology of Nerve Repair |
| 1991 | Eduardo Zancolli, MD, Argentina: The Perceptive Scalpel |
| 1990 | Donald C. Johanson, PhD: Current Perspectives on Man’s Evolutionary Past |
| 1989 | Videotape: Conversations with the Founders |
| 1988 | Alan R. Hudson, MD, Canada: Iatrogenic Nerve Injuries of the Upper Limb |
| 1987 | Hanno Millesi, MD, Austria: Microsurgery of Peripheral Nerves - A Surgical Technique or a Biologic Approach |
| 1986 | Robert W.H. Pho, MD, Singapore: The Place of Vascularized Bone Graft in Upper Extremity Surgery |
| 1985 | Nortin Hadler, MD: Repetitive Usage and the Compensable Hand Injury |
| 1984 | Norman Shumway, MD: A Look into the Future |
| 1983 | Donal Brooks, MD, England: Nerve Repair - A Time for Appraisal |