Roland H. Ingram, Jr. Lecture | Emory School of Medicine

21st Annual Roland H. Ingram, Jr. Lecture

Thursday, November 20, 2025 | 6 p.m. | Emory Conference Center Hotel

Guest lecturer
Naftali Kaminski, MD
Dr. Kaminski is an award winning internationally renowned leader and pioneer in implementing high throughput ‘omics’ profiling technologies and translational systems biology approaches to better understand Pulmonary Fibrosis. Kaminski discovered novel and reproducible outcome predictive peripheral blood and lung biomarkers and molecular mechanisms with therapeutic implications such as the role of MMPs, microRNAs, and thyroid hormone mimetics, and most recently Aberrant Basaloid Cells in pulmonary fibrosis. Kaminski’s team generated the largest single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) atlas of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis accompanied by the highly utilized data mining portal IPF Cell Atlas as well as more recently the additional portals for the Normal Lung Endothelial Cell Atlas, the COPD Cell Atlas and the Normal Lung Aging Cell Atlas. In 25 years, Kaminski authored more than 450 papers (including NEJM, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Biomedical Engineering, PNAS, Science Advances, Science Translational Medicine, JAMA, and top respiratory Journals) and is among the most cited currently active physician scientists in respiratory research. Kaminski has given numerous invited talks at national and international conferences.

About the Lecture Series

This highly prestigious lecture series honors Emory University's Dr. Roland H. Ingram as an esteemed leader in pulmonary and critical care medicine. The event serves as an enduring acknowledgment of Dr. Ingram's commitment to excellence in teaching, patient care, and research. Each year since 1999, except during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has featured a distinguished physician to share expertise in the clinical investigation and basic science of lung disease.

Past lecturers

2024 – Michael Matthay, MD
2023 – Sally Wenzel, MD
2022 – Fernando Martinez
2021 – N/A
2020 – Rana Awdish
2019 – Jesse Roman
2018 - Irina Petrache
2017 - Gerard A. Silvestri, MD, MS,
2016 - Monica Kraft, MD
2015 - E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH
2014 - Lynn Schnapp
2013 - Francis McCormack

2012- Gordon Rubenfeld
2011- David White
2010- Sharon Rounds
2009- Augustine Choi
2008 – Greg Downey
2007 – Steve Shapiro
2006 – Joe ‘Skip’ Garcia
2005 – Serpil Erzurum
2004 – Talmadge King
2003 – Thomas Martin
2002 – Joseph Sisson
2001 – Stephen Liggett
2000 – Robert Senior
1999 – Jeffrey Drazen

About Roland H. Ingram, Jr., MD

Roland H. Ingram, Jr., MD, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1960. Dr. Ingram served his internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (1960-61) and completed his residency at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri (1963-64) and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut (1964-65). He performed postdoctoral research work at Yale University School of Medicine (1965-66) and Columbia University (1966-67). He joined the Emory University faculty in 1967 and was named a professor of medicine in 1970.

In 1973, Dr. Ingram returned to Harvard Medical School and was named chief of the Harvard Division of Pulmonary Medicine and the Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine (1980-89). He was later named a professor of physiology and environmental sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health (1987-89). After serving as a professor of medicine and vice chair at the University of Minnesota (1989-92), he returned to Emory in 1992 as chief of the Department of Medicine at Crawford Long Hospital (now Emory University Hospital Midtown), where he was named the Martha West Looney Professor of Medicine in 1994.

Dr. Ingram received the prestigious Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal from the American Lung Association and the American Thoracic Society (1996). He was also an Honorary Life Delegate of the American Lung Association and an Honorary Life Member of the American Thoracic Society. Although he was recognized by his peers as an outstanding clinician and researcher, Dr. Ingram’s students remember him most for his teaching skills and commitment to the molding of young minds, which was best exemplified by his many teaching awards, including two Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching from the Emory medical house staff (1992-93 and 1993-94).

Throughout his career, Dr. Ingram provided direction and vision to past and present leaders within the academic pulmonary community, having served as director of training programs and pulmonary divisions at two institutions: Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1973-1989) and Emory University (1968-73; 1991-97). He received numerous awards for his research focused on the pathophysiology of asthma and other airway diseases. His distinguished research led to the publication of more than 150 peer-reviewed research articles as well as more than 140 other scientific publications, including review articles, editorials, and book chapters.

Dr. Ingram was an invaluable contributor to the Emory University Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and to the Emory University School of Medicine. As an enduring acknowledgment of his commitment to excellence in teaching, patient care, and research, Emory established the Roland H. Ingram, Jr. Lecture in 1999. Each year, this lectureship invites a distinguished physician to share expertise in the clinical investigation and basic science of lung disease. This activity and others serve not only to remind us of Dr. Ingram’s extraordinary contributions to the art and science of medicine but also to advance the academic mission of the division.