The quality of slides can greatly enhance or detract from a scientific presentation. In order to emphasize the importance of well planned and prepared slides, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association has created the Tiki Award.
This award is given to that person who presents a slide at the annual meeting which is judged by a committee appointed by the President to be the most memorable and noteworthy. This slide can be selected because it is unintelligible, confusing, cluttered, irrelevant, or conversely because it is superbly clear, concise, colorful, pertinent, and/or utilizes state of the art graphics.
THE TIKI AWARD WINNERS
1964 - Watts R. Webb..................................... New Orleans, Louisiana
1965 - J. Alex Haller Jr........................................ Baltimore, Maryland
1966 - Richard M. Peters.................................... San Diego, California
1967 - Myron W. Wheat.................................... St. Petersburg, Florida
1968 - Carl H. Almond................................. Columbia, South Carolina
1969 - Francis Robicsek............................... Charlotte, North Carolina
1970 - Wiliam A. Neely........................................ Jackson, Mississippi
1971 - Paul C. Adkins................................................Washington, DC
1972 - Panagiotis Symbas......................................... Atlanta, Georgia
1973 - James L. Alexander.................................... Savannah, Georgia
1974 - Lloyd H. Hudson................................................. Flint, Michigan
1975 - Richard E. Clark........................................... St. Louis, Missouri
1976 - William S. Lyons......................................... Alexandria, Virginia
1977 - Maruf A. Razzuk.................................................. Dallas, Texas
1978 - Harold C. Urschel Jr............................................ .Dallas, Texas
1979 - Maruf A. Razzuk.................................................. Dallas, Texas
1980 - Francis Robicsek................................. Charlotte, North Carolina
1981 - Robert Sade..................................... Charleston, South Carolina
1982 - Kit Arom................................................ Minneapolis, Minnesota
1983 - Herbert E. Warden............................. Morgantown, West Virginia
1984 - Noel L. Mills............................................ New Orleans, Louisiana
1985 - George C. Kaiser........................................... St. Louis, Missouri
1986 - J. G. Selle........................................... Charlotte, North Carolina
1987 - Steven Gundry........................................... Baltimore, Maryland
1988 - Harvey I. Pass............................................. Bethesda, Maryland
1989 - Duke E. Cameron........................................ Baltimore, Maryland
1990 - Richard E. Clark.................................... Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1991 - William H. Coltharp..................................... Nashville, Tennessee
1992 - Joseph S. Coselli................................................ Houston, Texas
1993 - Benson R. Wilcox............................... Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1994 - P. Michael McFadden................................ New Orleans, Louisiana
1995 - Carolyn E. Reed................................ Charleston, South Carolina
1996 - John L. Ochsner...................................... New Orleans, Louisiana
1997 - Clifford H. Van Meter, Jr........................... New Orleans, Louisiana
1998 - John D. Oswalt...................................................... Austin, Texas
1999 - W. Randolph Chitwood......................... Greenville, North Carolina
2000 - Ross Ungerleider.................................... Durham, North Carolina
2001 - Neal D. Kon................................. Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2002 - W. Steves Ring..................................................... Dallas, Texas
2003 - Betsey Urschel...................................................... Dallas, Texas
2004 - John Puskas...................................................... Atlanta, Georgia
2005 - Meredith Scott.................................................... Shell, Wyoming
2006 - Constantine Mavroudis.........................................Chicago, Illinois
2007 - Robert Cerfolio............................................Birmingham, Alabama