The Marialuisa Lectureship award was established at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute by the Ferrari family in memory of Marialuisa Ferrari. The Lectureship is hosted annually on a rotating schedule between Houston Methodist Research Institute, Ohio State University and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
This annual event educates researchers, physicians, nurses, caregivers and the community about the importance of symptom and pain management for cancer patients.
2018 Marialuisa Lectureship for Life
September 16, 2018 – The 2018 Marialuisa Lectureship for Life award was presented to His Eminence Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia and the Pontifical Academy for Life, In Honor of the Holy Father, Pope Francis. The award was presented at a closed event during the 2018 Palliative Care and Spirituality for Life (PCSLife) Conference.
For more information about PCSLife, please visit https://www.pcslife.org/
Past Honorees
2018
Houston Methodist Award Recipient – His Eminence Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia and the Pontifical Academy for Life, In Honor of the Holy Father, Pope Francis
The Ohio State University Award Recipient – Charles von Gunten, MD, PhD, FAAHPM, FAACE | OhioHealth, Riverside Methodist Hospital
2017
Houston Methodist Award Recipient – Devon Still
A Father’s Experience Tackling Childhood Cancer
Still Strong Foundation
The Ohio State University Award Recipient – Tony Yaksh, PhD | University of California San Diego
2016
Joseph J. Fins, MD, MACP | Cornell University Weill Cornell Medicine
Preserving the right to die and affirming the right to care
The Ohio State University Award Recipient – Arthur G. James, MD (posthumous) and John J. Bonica, MD (posthumous)
2015
Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett
How philanthropy and social entrepreneurship can transform the care of the dying
2014
Philip A. Pizzo, MD | Stanford University
Chronic pain: overcoming a public health challenge
2013
Costantino Benedetti, MD | The Ohio State University and International Association for the Study of Pain
The two faces of pain: a beneficial, warning vital function; a malefic, consuming neurologic disease
2012
Allan Basbaum, PhD | University of California San Francisco
Can we treat the ‘disease’ of neuropathic pain
2011
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD | Northwestern University
The last frontier in palliative care research: Bringing rigor to research in palliative care chaplaincy
2010
Eduardo Bruera, MD, FAAHPM | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Palliative cancer care for patients and healthcare professionals
2009
Ben A. Rich, JD, PhD | University of California Davis
Palliative care education and the culpability of cultivated ignorance
2008
Umberto Veronesi, MD
New paradigms in the management of breast cancer
2007
Mino Damato
The unknown odyssey of abandoned children with HIV
2006
Frances M. Visco | National Breast Cancer Coalition
The power of patient advocacy
2005
Richard Smalley, MD
Hope on the cancer front
2004
Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, MACP | Georgetown University
2003
Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD | Samaritan Health Initiatives Inc.
Palliative care as a cancer intervention: Progress with a purpose
2002
T. Declan Walsh, MD | Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System
2001
Kathleen M. Foley, MD | Cornell University Weill Cornell Medicine
2000
Neil MacDonald, MD | University of Alberta and McGill University
To view videos of previous lectureships, visit go.osu.edu/FerrariLecture