| Year | Location | Name | Title of Paper |
| 2004 | BSDR (Birmingham) | Colin Robinson | Inaugural Graham Embery memorial lecture |
| 2005 | BSDR (Dundee) | Phil Marsh | Dental plaque and disease – ecological catastrophes in microbial cities of slime? |
| 2006 | PEF (Dublin) | Peter P Robinson | Raw nerves in oral surgery: studies on the management of trigeminal nerve injuries |
| 2007 | BSDR (Durham) | David M Williams | Effective defence in a hostile environment – why we need our oral mucosa |
| 2008 | PEF (London) | Stephen Challacombe | International perspectives in oral mucosal immunology: are we up to scratch? |
| 2009 | BSDR (Glasgow) | Angus Walls | The ageing population, opportunity or threat? |
| 2010 | PER (Barcelona) | Francis Hughes | Regenerating the periodontium – a challenge for the surgeon, pathologist or tissue engineer? |
| 2011 | BSODR (Sheffield) | Ric van Noort | The 2nd digital dental revolution |
| 2012 | PER (Helsinki) | Paul Speight | Oral cancer ontology and biology |
| 2013 | BSODR (Bath) | Iain Chapple | The real Webs of Science – neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs): a new paradigm in innate immunity |
| 2014 | PER (Dubrovnik) | Tim Watson | Hard Tissues: Disease and Materials – What’s the Link? |
| 2015 | BSODR (Cardiff) | Mike Curtis | Periodontal disease – who’s bad? |
| 2016 | PER (Jerusalem) | NOT GIVEN | |
| 2017 | BSODR (Plymouth) | Mike Lewis |
