Next month marks the start of the UAB Department of Surgery’s new Champ Lyons Lecture Series. Beginning with the Champ Lyons Medical History Lectureship, which will be presented on Nov. 12 by Joseph Woo, M.D., this annual talk series will support nine visiting lectures at Surgery Grand Rounds over the course of the next year through the Champ Lyons Lectureship Fund.
Champ Lyons, M.D., was professor and chair of Surgery at UAB from from 1950-1965 and contributed heavily to the field in the areas of surgical infections and vascular surgery.
Champ Lyons Lecture Series 2019-2020:
- Nov. 19, 2019: Champ Lyons Medical History Lectureship
- March 10, 2020: Champ Lyons Lectureship in General Surgery
- March 17, 2020: Women in Surgery Lectureship
- April 14, 2020: Champ Lyons Lectureship in Surgical Ethics
- April 21, 2020: UAB-UTSW Visiting Lecture in Surgery
- April 28, 2020: Resident Research Day Visiting Lecture
- June 9, 2020: Diversity Grand Rounds
- July 28, 2020: UAB Surgery-Otolaryngology Visiting Lecture
- Nov. 24, 2020: Champ Lyons Medical History Lectureship