Each year SIU School of Medicine graduates a new class of physicians. Speeches given to the graduating class are posted as listed.
2012 - Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan (speech), professor of medicine and health policy at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. (release)
2011 - Dr. G. Scott Morris (speech), founder and executive director of the Church Health Center in Memphis (release)
2010 - Dr. J. Kevin Dorsey, Ph.D. (speech), Dean and provost at SIU School of Medicine (release)
2009 - Dr. Darrell G. Kirch (speech), president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (release)
2008 - Dr. Levi Watkins (speech), associate dean and professor of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (release)
2007 - Dr. William Magee, Jr. (speech), co-founder and chief executive officer of Operation Smile (release)
2006 - Senator Barack H. Obama (speech), U.S. Senator from Illinois (at the time) (release)
2005 - Dr. Richard H. Moy (speech), Dean Emeritus, SIU School of Medicine (release)
2004 - Dr. Thomas S. Inui (speech), professor and dean for health care research at Indiana University (release)
2003 - Dr. Abraham Verghese (speech), director of the Center for Medical Humanitites and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center (release)
2002 - Dr. Catherine DeAngelis (speech), editor of JAMA (release)
2001 - Donna E. Shalala, Ph.D., president of the University of Miami (release)
2000 - Dr. Robert W. Brown (speech), cardiologist and former third baseman for N.Y. Yankees (release)
1999 - Dr. Nancy Dickey (speech), president of the American Medical Association (release)
1998 - Dr. Richard Selzer (speech), surgeon and author (release)
1997 - Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders (speech), former U.S. Surgeon General (release)
1996 - Theodore LeBlang, J.D. (speech), chairman, SIU's Medical Humanities Department (release)
1995 - Congressman Richard Durbin (speech), 20th congressional district in the U. S. House of Representatives (release)
1994 - Roger Robinson (speech), assistant dean of students at SIU School of Medicine (release)
1993 - Dr. Bernard S. Siegel (speech), pediatric and general surgeon from New Haven, Conn. (release)
1992 - McLean Stevenson, Lt. Col. Henry Blake from the M*A*S*H TV series (release)
1991 - Honorable Benjamin K. Miller - Chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court (release)
1990 - Dr. Randy Kienstra - chair of pediatrics at SIU School of Medicine (release)
1989 - Dr. James E. Davis - president of the American Medical Association (release)
1988 - Dr. Robert G. Petersdorf, president and CEO of Association of American Medical Colleges (release)
1987 - Dr. Robert E. Merrill, professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania (release)
1986 - Dr. Virginia Weldon, chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (release)
1985 - Robert J. Glaser (speech), director of medical science for the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust (release)
1984 - Stephen Abrahamson, Ph.D., director of research at the University of Southern California School of Medicine (release)
1983 - Daniel C. Tosteson, dean of the faculty of medicine at at Havard University (release)
1982 - Honorable John B. Anderson, former U. S. Congressman and 1980 presidential candidate (release)
1980 - Honorable Paul Simon, U.S. representative from Illinois (release)
1979 - Dr. Otis R. Bowen, governor of Indiana (release)
1978 - Dr. George E. Miller, professor of medical education at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago (release)
1977 - Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, president of Yale-New Haven Medical Center (release)
1976 - Dr. C. Barber Mueller, professor of surgery at McMaster University Medical Center (fact sheet)
1975 - Dr. David Elliott Rogers, president of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (release)