The Gordon Lecture is given annually at the Canadian Surgery Forum by a Colorectal Surgeon who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of colorectal surgery.
Past Gordon Lecturers
2025
Dr. Justin Davies (London, England) – Volume Outcome Relationship in Colorectal Cancer
2024
Dr. Julie Cornish (London, England) – LARS: Low Anterior Resection Syndrome
2023
Dr. Susan Galandiuk (Louisville, Kentucky) – Future Horizons in Colorectal Surgery
2022
Dr. Andrea McNeil (Vancouver, British Columbia) – Planetary Health: Climate Change in the OR
2021
Dr. Heidi Nelson (Rochester, New York) – Microbiome and sporadic colon cancer- The Missing Link?
2019
Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar (New York, New York)
2018
Dr. Robin S. McLeod – Improving Healthcare – What Does It Take?
2017
Dr. Stanley Goldberg – Fistula in Ano: from John Arderne to 2017
2016
Dr. Torbjorn Holm (Stockholm, Sweden) – Abdominopereneal Resection – Technical Aspects and Outcomes
2015
Dr. George Chang (Houston, Texas) – Robotic Surgery for Rectal Cancer
2014
Dr. C. Ko (L.A.) – Impact of ERAS and NSQIP on Colorectal Surgery Outcomes
2013
Dr. Z. Cohen (Toronto, Ontario) – Hereditary cancer – A personal story
2012
Dr. R.D. Madoff (Minneapolis, MN) – Seeking truth in the surgical literature – The education of a medical editor
2011
Dr. P.L. Roberts (Burlington, MA) – Diverticulitis – Who needs an operation? (audio recorded)
2010
Dr. M.J. Burnstein (Toronto, Ontario) – Surgical Technique and Rectal Cancer Outcome
2009
Dr. C.P. Delaney (Cleveland) – Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
2008
Dr. Philip H. Gordon (Montréal, Québec) – A Glance to the Rear – Looking Back on Twenty-five Years of Canadian Colorectal Surgery
2007
Dr. M.J. Solomon (Sydney) – Measuring Patient Preferences and Surgical Equipoise in Colorectal Surgery
2006
Dr. David A. Rothenberger (Minnesota) – Treatment Decisions for Rectal Cancer – Rationale, Conundrums and Controversies
2005
Dr. Francis Seow-Choen (Singapore) – Fibre and Colorectal Diseases – Facts and Myths
2004
Dr. Hartley Stern (Ottawa, Ontario) – Setting Standards for Cancer Surgery in a Provincial Healthcare Scheme
2003
Dr. Jim Church (Cleveland) – Colorectal Cancer Screening – Who, What, Where and When?
2002
Dr. Jose G. Guillem (New York, NY) – Sphincter Saving Surgery for Rectal Carcinoma
2001
Dr. Herand Abcarian (University of Illinois) – The Surgical Treatment of Acute Sigmoid Diverticulities
Previous CSCRS Guest Lecturers at CSF
2000
Dr. B. Wolff (Rochester, Minnesota) – Abdominal Surprises – An overview of Incidental Surgery
1999
Dr. R. J. Nicholls (London, England) – Where are we now with the Ileal Pouch?
1996
Dr. James Church (Cleveland Clinic) – Quality of life issues following rectal cancer surgery
1995
Dr. Steven Wexner (Cleveland Clinic Florida)
1994
Dr. Robert Beart (USC Los Angeles) – Prevention of recurrence of rectal cancer
1993
Dr. Ernest Seidman (Hôpital st-Justine, Montreal)
1992
Dr. Robert Fry (St. Louis, MO)