Fae Golden Kass Lectureship

The Fae Golden Kass Lectureship was created by gifts of the family and friends of Fae Golden Kass to support an annual lecture by a woman in the medical sciences.

Background
The Fae Golden Kass lecture was created in the mid-1970's by Dr. Edward H. Kass, the William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, to honor his first wife, Fae, who died in 1973. With the support of friends and family, the lectureship was conceived as a way to honor an outstanding woman in the medical sciences. It is now sponsored jointly by Harvard Medical School and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Fae Golden Kass, born in Cleveland in 1923, graduated from the University of Wisconsin and received a master’s degree in social work from Simmons College. After her children entered school, Mrs. Kass resumed her education at Boston University and obtained a master’s degree in education. She worked as a career counselor at Northeastern University until her death. Fae Kass’s mother was an attorney and, later, a businesswoman in Cleveland, and likely influenced her daughter’s belief in the potential and abilities of women. Although Fae Kass herself was clear on her choice to first be a mother and homemaker, she had no doubt that women could also pursue other endeavors, and her own political philosophies and values reflected this belief. Fae Golden Kass was an individual who possessed a wide-angle view of the world, someone who was deeply interested in the education and promotion of women. She believed strongly in social justice and in greater opportunities for women. We also honor the vision of her husband, Dr. Edward H. Kass, a pioneer in infectious diseases, who sought to honor his wife’s memory through these lectures.

1977	Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann Yale University Medical School
1979	Dr. Helen M. Ranney University of California, San Diego
1980	Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin Bristol University, England
1981	Dr. Dorothy Rice National Center for Health Statistics
1983	Dr. Renee C. Fox University of Pennsylvania
1984	Dr. Harriet Zuckerman Columbia University
1985	Dr. Janet D. Rowley University of Chicago
1986	Dr. Maxine Singer National Cancer Institute, NIH
1987	Dr. Margaret Warner Harvard University
1988	Dr. Barbara Starfield Johns Hopkins University
1989	Dr. Maxine Hayes Department of Social Service, Washington State University
1990	Dr. Wendy Savage London Hospital Medical Colleges, England
1992	Dr. Vivian Pinn Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH
1993	Dr. June Osborn University of Michigan
1994	Dr. Diana Chapman Walsh President, Wellesley College
1995	Dr. Mary Ellen Avery Thomas Rotch Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
1996	Dr. Enriqueta Bond President, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
1997	Dr. Florence Haseltine Center for Population Research, NICHD, National Institutes of Health
1998	Dr. Tara O’Toole U.S. Department of Energy
1999	Elizabeth Marincola, M.B.A. President, American Society for Cell Biology
2000	Dr. Mary Claire King University of Washington
2001	Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith Harvard School of Public Health
2003	Dr. Susan Lindquist Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
2004	Dr. Gro Brundtland Former Director-General, World Health Organization, and Former Prime Minister of Norway
2006	Dr. Julie Freischlag Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
2008	Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis Editor in Chief, JAMA
2013	Dr. Marion Nestle Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University
2020	Dr. Linda P. Fried Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health; DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice; Professor, Epidemiology and Medicine; Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center

Fae Golden Kass Lectureship

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28th Fae Golden Kass Lecture

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