The Pitt-Rivers and George Murray lectures

The Pitt-Rivers Lecture

Each year the BTA Committee awards the opportunity to deliver the Pitt-Rivers Lecture at the Annual Joint Endocrine Societies Meeting. This is generously sponsored by the Clinical Endocrinology Trust.

This lecture was founded in 1983 in memory of Professor Rosalind Pitt-Rivers in recognition for her outstanding contribution to thyroidology, and particularly of the discovery of Triiodothyronine.

This nomination goes to the Clinician or Scientist who, in the opinion of the committee, has made an outstanding contribution to thyroid disease. 

The lecturers to date are:

• 2022 Professor Anja Eckstein  
• 2021 Professor Heike Heuer
• 2020 Frederic Flamant
• 2019 James Fagin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Center, New York, USA
• 2018 Robin Peeters, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 2017 Professor Domenico Salvatore
• 2016 Graham Williams
• 2015 Anthony Hollenberg
• 2014 Krishna Chatterjee
• 2013 Antonio C. Bianco 
• 2012 Jane Franklyn 
• 2011 Samuel Refetoff 
• 2010  Tony Weetman 
• 2009  Làszlô Hegedus 
• 2008  Sheue-yann Cheng 
• 2007  Douglas Forrest 
• 2006  Bjorn Vennstrom 
• 2005  Theo Visser 
• 2004  Jacques Samarut 
• 2003  Nancy Carrasco
• 2002  Robert diLauro 
• 2001  Wilmar Wiersinga
• 2000  James Baker 
• 1999  Chester Ridgway 
• 1998  Michael Sheppard 
• 1997  Aldo Pinchera 
• 1996  Terry Davies 
• 1995  Bruce Ponder 
• 1994  Gabriella Morreale Del Escobar 
• 1993  Shigenobu Nagataki 
• 1992  Janusz Nauman 
• 1991  Les DeGroot 
• 1990  Giancarlo Vecchio
• 1989  Basil Rapoport 
• 1988  Dilwyn Williams
• 1987  Reed Larsen 
• 1986  Reg Hall
• 1985  Bruce Weintraub 
• 1984  Gilbert Vassart
• 1983  Sidney Ingbar