This lectureship was established to honor Lawson Wilkins, MD, the primary individual responsible for the establishment and recognition of the discipline of pediatric endocrinology. The Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society was founded in 1972 by a group of Dr. Wilkins’ trainees; in 2010 the name of the Society was changed to the Pediatric Endocrine Society. The Lawson Wilkins Lecture is given annually by a leading authority in the field of pediatric endocrinology.

The Lecturer, who need not be a member of the PES, is chosen yearly to deliver a plenary lecture at the PES Annual Meeting. The Lecturer will be selected by the PES Honors & Lectures Committee based upon recommendations/suggestions from the PES President.

Past Lectures

2021:
Raising Ryland 
The Whittington Family: Hillary, Jeff, Ryland and Brynley Whittington

2019:
Obesity in Childhood: Causes and Consequences
Sadaf Farooqi , PhD, FRCP, FMedSci
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine Scientific Director, Wellcome-MRC IMS Translational Research Facility (TRF), Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

2018:
Embracing the Legacy of Lawson Wilkins: Leadership in Challenging Times
Ora Pescovitz, MD
Oakland University, Rochester, MI

2017:
Metabolic pathway disruption leading to Type 2 DM
Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD
Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Genetics, the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, and the Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2016:
Molecular physiology of the weight-reduced state
Rudolph Leibel
Professor & Division Chief, Columbia Univ Col of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY

2015:
The ABCs of DSD: Changing and unchanging perspectives regarding Intersex in the last half century
Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2014:
Translating Basic Mechanisms to Therapy in the Skeletal Dysplasias
Brendan Lee, MD, PhD
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2013:
From Osler to Insulin: The Coming of the Age of Medical Miracles
Michael Bliss
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2012:
One Big Step For Man: Fetal Programming Of Masculinization And Its Lifelong Health Consequences
Professor Richard M. Sharpe
The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2011:
Aquaporins and Water Balance
Daniel G. Bichet
University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada