Stokes Lecture
The Stokes Lecture is the keynote address of the annual conference. Each year an individual who made an outstanding contribution to the profession of cardiology and who has Irish connections is invited to present to the membership body. The Stokes lecturer is presented with the Irish Cardiac Society Stokes Medal.
Stokes Lectures: 2005 – 2021
Note: In 2020 the delivery of the Stokes lecture was postponed for the first time since its introduction, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The transformation of Heart Failure from nobody’s child to driving healthcare change"
2021
Prof. Ken McDonald
2020
Note: In 2020 the delivery of the Stokes lecture was postponed for the first time since its introduction, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Tackling the global burden of CVD"
2019
Prof. Salim Yusuf
Stokes, Adams, Ward and many others: arrhythmias and syncope
2018
Dr. Janet McComb
The emerging epidemic of CVD in Developing Countries
2017
Prof. KK Teo, MacMaster University Canada
The Role of Aspirin in Acute Coronary Syndromes: A 30-year Journey
2016
Dr. Magnus Ohman, Duke University
Heart Failure, The Final Frontier
2015
Prof. John Cleland, Imperial College London
A Modern Understanding of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
2014
Dr. Eric Isselbacher, MGH Boston
Atherosclerosis across 4000 years of Human History : The HORUS Study of 4 ancient populations
2013
Dr. John Harold, ACC
Tomorrow you are Minister for Health – Now What?
2012
Prof. Ian Graham, Trinity College Dublin
Protecting the Heart & Circulation
2011
Prof. David Wood, Imperial College London
Endogenous Pathways that Protect against Atherosclerosis
2010
Prof. Des Fitzgerald UCD
Vascular Progenitor cells in Cardiovascular Disease
2009
Prof. Noel Caplice, UCC
Heart Failure, Past Present & Future
2008
Prof. John McMurray, Glasgow
Why do the good die young?
2007
Dr. Mary N. Sheppard, Royal Brompton London
Reducing the burden of coronary disease – the role of ACE Inhibitors
2006
Prof. Kim Fox, Royal Brompton London
Mesenchymal stem cells – prospects for Cardiac Regeneration
2005
Prof. Tim O’ Brien, Remedi Galway