Louisa Burns Memorial Lecturers
Following the Spring meeting of the AOA Bureau of Research, a member
of the osteopathic profession or an osteopathic researcher is honored
with an invitation to present the Louisa Burns Memorial Lecture
at the following year's annual AOA Research Conference. The lecture
is named in honor of pioneer osteopathic researcher Louisa Burns.
Louisa Burns, DO (1870-1958), a native of Indiana, earned a BS
degree from the Borden Institute in that state in 1892. Her career
as a schoolteacher was cut short by spinal meningitis, the disabling
effects of which were reversed by osteopathic treatment.
She became interested in the osteopathic profession and enrolled
in the Pacific College of Osteopathy. While there she became interested
in developing an osteopathic research program. After earning her
DO degree in 1903, she earned an MS degree from the Borden Institute
and a DScO degree from the Pacific college. She joined the faculty
of the Pacific college in 1906, and she taught physiology and acted
as a clinician there until 1914, when she moved to Chicago to head
the young A.T. Still Research Institute. She remained head of that
group until 1936, when it became part of the research program of
the American Osteopathic Association.
She then became head of the Louisa Burns Osteopathic Research Laboratory
and a faculty member at the College of Osteopathic Physicians and
Surgeons, Los Angeles (successor to her alma mater), a position
she retained until poor eyesight forced her retirement in 1957.
She died in California in 1958.
Dr. Burns wrote five books, including Pathogenesis of visceral
disease following vertebral lesions (1948), as well as
many articles, most of which are retrievable through the Cumulative
Index to The Journal of the AOA. An important modern reference
is the 1970 Louisa Burns Memorial Lecture, listed below. Following
is a list of all the lectures, with publication references.
| 2005 |
John D. Licciardone, DO, (UNTHSCFW/TCOM), "Elephants, Enigmas
and Evidence" |
| 2003 |
David Kaufman, DO, (MSUCOM), "Developing a Research Culture
Within an Osteopathic Academic Department: A View from the Trenches"
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| 2002 |
Samuel Coleridge, DO, (UNTHSCFW/TCOM), "Establishing a Research
Infrastructure: The Complete Academic Department" |
| 2001 |
Felix Rogers, DO (MSUCOM), "Building on Tradition" |
| 2000 |
Norman Gevitz, PhD (OUCOM), "Researched and Demonstrated:
Inquiry & Infrastructure in Osteopathic Institutions" |
| 1999 |
Stanley Schiowitz, DO (NYCOM), "Osteopathic Research and the
Medical School: The Next Century" |
| 1998 |
Thomas Yorio, PhD (UNTHSCFW/TCOM), "Research and Teaching:
Striking a Balance" |
| 1997 |
Barbara Winterson, PhD (UNECOM), "Properties of an Animal
Model of Somatic Dysfunction: Implications for Research and
Practice" |
| 1996 |
Leonard Calabrese, DO (Cleveland Clinic Foundation), "The
Changing Natural History of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection,
1991 through 1996 and Beyond" |
| 1995 |
Bernard R. Rubin, DO (UNTHSCFW/TCOM), The Future of Clinical
Research in a Changing Medical Environment" |
| 1994 |
Frank H. Willard, PhD (UNECOM), "General Adaptive Response,
AIDS and Future of Osteopathic Research: An Integration" |
| 1993 |
Charles Steiner, DO (UMDNJ-SOM), "Osteopathic Manipulation:
What Does it Really Do?" |
| 1992 |
Jack B. Kinsinger, PhD (Chicago Osteopathic Health Systems),
"Buiding the Research Infrastructure" |
| 1991 |
Gilbert E. D'Alonzo, DO (Temple University), "The Chronobiology
and Chronotherapy of Asthma" |
| 1990 |
Murray Goldstein, DO, MPH (NIH), "The Decade of the Brain" |
| 1989 |
Daniel H. Belsky, DO (UMDNJ-SOM), "Research in Osteopathic
Residencies" |
| 1988 |
Myron C. Beal, DO (East Lansing, MI), "Perception through
Palpation" |
| 1987 |
Anthony G. Chila, DO (OUCOM), "Reform Through Research" |
| 1986 |
Joseph T. Rogers, DO (Tucson, AZ), "The Clinician and Osteopathic
Research" |
| 1985 |
Paul E. Kimberly, DO (St. Petersburg, FL), "Measurement in
Medicine: The Osteopathic Perspective" |
| 1984 |
Goerge W. Northup, DO (AOA Editor-in-chief), "RE-search" |
| 1983 |
William L. Johnston, DO (MSUCOM), "Planning, Developing and
Conducting Osteopathic Clinical Research" |
| 1982 |
William L. Johnston, DO (MSUCOM), "Inter-examiner Reliability
Studies: Spanning a gap in Medical Research" |
| 1981 |
Albert F. Kelso, PhD (CCOM), "Planning, Developing and Conducting
Osteopathic Clinical Research" |
| 1980 |
Michael M. Patterson, PhD (OUCOM), "The Spinal Cord: Active
Processor, Not Passive Transmitter" |
| 1979 |
J. Jerry Rodos, DO (National Osteopathic Foundation), "The
Second Century of Osteopathic Research" |
| 1978 |
Keith D. Peterson, DO (Seattle, WA), "What Research Can Do
for Sports Medicine" |
| 1977 |
Myron S. Magen, DO (MSUCOM), "The Osteopathic Short-leg Syndrome" |
| 1976 |
Symposium: Irvin M. Korr, PhD (MSUCOM), Murray Goldstein,
DO (NIH), Donald H. Harter, MD (Northwestern University Medical
School), Jerome Cornfield, PhD (George Washington University),
"Pathways to Excellence in Clinical Research" |
| 1975 |
Irvin M. Korr, PhD and G. S. L. Appeltauer (MSUCOM), "Trophic
Functions of Nerves" |
| 1974 |
Workshop: Robert E. Pike, DO (Albany, NY) and Phyllis M. Cunningham,
PhD (University of Chicago), "Osteopathic Research Priorities" |
| 1973 |
Symposium, Philip E. Greenman, DO, R. Frederick Becker, PhD,
Eloise Kuntz, PhD, David Michael, PhD (MSUCOM), Osteopathic
Research at MSU-COM: A New Look at an Old Problem" |
| 1972 |
Symposium: J. S. Denslow, DO, Michael M. Patterson, PhD, Elliot
Lee Hix, PhD, Horst Kehl, MS, Irvin M. Korr, PhD (KCOM), Research
at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine" |
| 1971 |
Symposium: A. F. Kelso, PhD (CCOM), Herbert C. Miller, DO
(KCOM), Walter C. Randall, PhD and Robert B. Wurster, PhD (Stritch-Loyola
School of Medicine), "Autonomic Control of Vasomotion, Sweating
and Skin Temperature in Humans" |
| 1970 |
Wilbur V. Cole, DO, (KCCOM), "Louisa Burns' Research". |
| 1969 |
Elliott Lee Hix, PhD (KCOM), "Somatic-autonomic interchange:
a decade of research" |
*Deceased
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