The 2025 Senturia Lecture was offered by renowned neurotologist J. Thomas Roland, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center.
Title: “ABI in Children without NF2 related Schwannomatosis: Technical Advancements”
Details on our 2026 Senturia Lectureship events will be announced soon.
Ben Harlan Senturia
The Senturia Lectureship was established in 1977 by the St. Louis Otological Foundation.
Ben Harlan Senturia was a native of St. Louis and obtained both his undergraduate degree (1931) and his medical degree (1935) from Washington University. Following his internship and residency at McMillan Hospital, he was appointed to the otolaryngology faculty at Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Senturia served in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1945 and was assigned to the research section of the School of Aviation Medicine where he conducted research in external otitis and noise-induced hearing loss.
Following his military service, he returned to St. Louis to practice and teach. In 1972 he became president of the American Otological Society. He was chosen as guest of honor by the society in 1976 and received its prestigious Award of Merit in 1980.
Senturia Lecturers
2025 – J. Thomas Roland, MD
2024 – Jay Rubenstein, MD, PhD
2023 – David Haynes, MD
2022 – Thomas Lenarz, MD, PhD
2021 – Michael Hoa, MD
2020 – Howard W. Francis, MD, MBA
2019 – Yuri Agrawal, MD
2018 – John L. Dornhoffer, MD, FACS
2017 – Marlan R. Hansen, MD, FACS
2016 – John W. House, MD
2015 – Robert F. Labadie, MD, PhD
2014 – Lorne S. Parnes, MD
2013 – John P. Carey, MD
2012 – Bruce J. Gantz, MD, FACS
2011 – Joseph B. Nadol, Jr, MD
2010 – Lawrence R. Lustig, MD
2009 – Saumil N. Merchant, MD
2008 – Karen J. Doyle, MD, PhD
2007 – Paul R. Lambert, MD
2006 – Dennis S. Poe, MD
2005 – Michael J. McKenna, MD
2004 – Debara Lynn Tucci, MD
2003 – D. Bradley Welling, MD
2002 – Anil K. Lalwani, MD
2001 – Lloyd B. Minor, MD
2000 – Michael M. Paparella, MD
1999 – Richard A. Chole, MD, PhD
1998 – Jens Thomsen, MD
1997 – Mario Sanna, MD
1996 – Malcolm D. Graham, MD, FACS
1995 – William F. House, MD
1994 – Julian M. Nedzelski, MD, PhD
1993 – Aina Julianna Gulya, MD, FACS
1992 – B. Hill Britton, MD
1991 – Mitchell K. Schwaber, MD
1990 – Robert I. Kohut, MD
1986 – Robert A. Jahrsdoerfer, MD
1985 – Bobby R. Alford, MD
1984 – Mansfield F. W. Smith, MD, MS, FACS
1983 – Derald E. Brackmann, MD
1982 – Brian F. McCabe, MD
1980 – William F. House, MD
1979 – Charles D. Bluestone, MD
1978 – Victor Goodhill, MD
1977 – Richard R. Gacek, MD