1997    Professor Cornelius Van de Velde                     “The Need and Value of Clinical Trials in Surgical Oncology”

1998    Professor Umberto Veronesi                              “New Developments in Breast Cancer Treatment”

1999    Professor Yuman Fong                                          "Gall Bladder Cancer – Treatment Strategies”

2000    Professor R Daniel Beauchamp                          “The Role of TGF-Beta in Colorectal Cancer: tumour suppressor or tumour promoter?”

2001    Dr Jon van Heerden                                               “Surgical treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism”

2002    Professor Peter Goh                                               “Laparoscopic gastric surgery – development and role in gastric cancer management”

2003    Professor Lars Pahlman (Sweden)                      “Rectal Cancer – state of the art staging and surgery”

2004    Mr K B Clough                                                            “Oncoplastic surgery for conservative treatment of breast cancer”

2005    Dr I Amarasinghe, President of the College of Surgeons on Sri Lanka    “Surgical Oncology…a window of opportunity to bridge a chasm”

2006    Professor N Vauthey                                                  "Multimodal Therapy of Hepatic Colorectal Metastases: Helpful or Harmful?”

2007    Professor Roger Blamey                                          “Prognosis of Breast Cancer; the past, present and future”

2008    Dr Paul H Sugarbaker                                               “Building a Consensus in the Surgical Management of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis”

2009    Dr Tim Rebbeck                                                          “Efficacy of risk reducing oophorectomy-a worldwide review”

2010    Professor Cornelis van de Velde                            “The European Vision of Surgical Oncology”

2011    Dr Armando Giuliano                                                “How SNB has Changed Breast Cancer Management”

2012    Professor Norman Wolmark                                     "The Future of Cancer Surgery Trials”

2013    Dr Suzanne Klimberg                                                 “Reducing morbidity after breast cancer surgery”