| Year | Meeting Dates & Location | President | Presidential Address Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Meeting Dates & Location | President | Presidential Address Title |
| 2019 – 2020 | November 2 – 3 The American Club, Kohler | Brian Lewis, Milwaukee | Wisconsin Surgical Society – A Strong Surgical Society Benefits All of Us |
| 2017 - 2018 | November 3 - 4 The American Club, Kohler | David Schultz, Neenah | General Surgeons and the Dinosaurs |
| 2016 | November 4 - 5 The American Club, Kohler | Michael J. Garren, Madison | |
| 2015 | November 13 - 14 The American Club, Kohler | Michael J. Garren, Madison | The MJG Mentorship Challenge |
| 2014 | November 14 – 15 The American Club, Kohler | Shanu Kothari, La Crosse | |
| 2013 | November 8 - 9 The American Club, Kohler | Shanu Kothari, La Crosse | A Life of Surgery – No Regrets |
| 2012 | November 2 – 3 The American Club, Kohler | Dean E. Klinger, Milwaukee | Doctors Say the Darndest Things |
| 2011 | November 4 – 5 The American Club, Kohler | Rodney Malinowski, Racine | Thoughts on Leadership |
| 2010 | November 5 – 6 The American Club, Kohler | Marilu Bintz, Prairie du Chien | A Profile of a Rural Surgeon |
| 2009 | November 6 – 7 The American Club, Kohler | Steven K. Kappes, Milwaukee | A Story of Surgical Education in Wisconsin |
| 2008 | November 7 – 8 The American Club, Kohler | Terry L. Gueldner, Manitowoc | The Final Frontier |
| 2007 | October 19 - 20 The American Club, Kohler | Mary F. Otterson, Milwaukee | |
| 2006 | October 20 – 21 The American Club, Kohler | Ronald D. Wenger, Madison | Confessions of a General Surgeon |
| 2005 | October 28 – 29 The American Club, Kohler | Edward Quebbeman, Milwaukee | |
| 2004 | October 29 – 30 The American Club, Kohler | Thomas H. Cogbill, La Crosse | |
| 2003 | October 31 – November 1 Wyndham Hotel, Milwaukee | Layton Rikkers, Madison | |
| 2002 | October 25 – 26 Osthoff Resort, Elkhart Lake | Louis Suarez, Appleton | |
| 2001 | October 19 – 20 Monona Terrace, Madison | James A. Avery, Fond du Lac | First and Last |
| 2000 | September 15 – 16 Lake Lawn Resort, Delavan | Mark B. Adams, Milwaukee | Speed in Surgery: Strategy and Tactics |
| 1999 | November 5 – 6 The Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee | William J. Schulte, Milwaukee | |
| 1998 | October 2 – 3 Lakewood Resort, Cable | Eberhard A. Mack, Madison | |
| 1997 | October 24 – 25** Monona Terrace, Madison | Louis C. Bernhardt, Madison | The Culture of Medicine |
| 1996 | April 19 Milwaukee September 27 – 28 The American Club, Kohler | Barry J. Seidel, Minocqua | |
| 1995 | April 8 Grand Geneva Resort, Lake Geneva September 15 – 16 Grand Geneva Resort, Lake Geneva | John R. Pellett, Madison | |
| 1994 | April 15 – 16 Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Wauwatosa September 16 – 17 Landmark Resort, Egg Harbor | John R. Pellett, Madison | |
| 1993 | April 16 – 17 Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse September 24 - 25 Holiday Acres, Rhinelander | William O. Myers, Marshfield | |
| 1992 | April 24 – 25 Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 25 – 26 Pioneer Inn, Oshkosh | J. David Lewis, West Bend | |
| 1991 | April 19 – 20 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Milwaukee November 8 – 9 The Concourse Hotel, Madison | Jonathan B. Towne, Milwaukee | Who is the Patient’s Advocate? |
| 1990 | April 27 – 28 Embassy Suites and Bellin Hospital, Green Bay September 14 - 15 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield | Sigurd B. Gundersen, Jr., La Crosse | |
| 1989 | April 14 – 15 St. Luke’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 15 – 16 The American Club, Kohler | George M. Kroncke, Madison | |
| 1988 | April 30 Columbia Hospital, Milwaukee September 16 – 17 The Americana, Lake Geneva | Stuart D. Wilson, Milwaukee | |
| 1987 | March 28 Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Wauwatosa September 18 - 19 Howard Young Medical Center, Woodruff | George F. Pratt, Milwaukee | |
| 1986 | April 19 Mount Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee September 19 – 20 St. Mary’s Hospital, Madison | Gale L. Mendeloff, Milwaukee | |
| 1985 | April 27 St. Francis Medical Center, La Crosse September 13 – 14 Paper Valley Hotel, Appleton | Folkert O. Belzer, Madison | Organ Transplantations: Past, Present and Future |
| 1984 | March 30 St. Mary’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 14 - 15 The American Club, Kohler | Robert E. Condon, Milwaukee | The Malpractice Problem |
| 1983 | March 26 VA Hospital, Milwaukee September 9 – 10 Pioneer Inn, Oshkosh | Richard B. Windsor, Sheboygan | Who Shall Belong? |
| 1982 | May 15 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 10 – 11 La Crosse Lutheran Hospital, La Crosse | Thomas J. Beno, Green Bay | Changing Trends in Surgery |
| 1981 | March 28 Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee September 11 – 12 Eagle River, WI | Henry F. Twelmeyer, Wauwatosa | |
| 1980 | March 29 Columbia Hospital, Milwaukee September 13 Lake Geneva | Charles E. Yale, Madison | Surgery for Morbid Obesity: A Personal Perspective |
| 1979 | May 12 Mount Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee September 14 – 15 University of Wisconsin, Madison | Walter D. Thomas, Milwaukee | Lengthened Shadows |
| 1978 | April 15 St. Luke’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 15 – 16 Holiday Inn, Wausau | Edward A. Bachhuber, Mayville | |
| 1977 | April 16 Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 9 – 10 Pioneer Inn, Oshkosh | P. Richard Sholl, Janesville | |
| 1976 | March 30 St. Mary’s Hospital, Madison September 10 – 11 Scotsland Princess Resort, Oconomowoc | Victor S. Falk, Edgerton | |
| 1975 | April 8 VA Hospital and the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee September 12 – 13 Telemark Lodge, Cable | Leonard W. Worman, Milwaukee | |
| 1974 | May 26 Columbia Hospital, Milwaukee September 13 – 14 Dell View Hotel, Lake Delton | Louis D. Graber, Oshkosh | Pancreatitis Associated with Peripheral Fat Necrosis |
| 1973 | May 27 Milwaukee County General Hospital, Milwaukee September 15 – 16 Gateway Hotel, Land O’Lakes | Wilson Weisel, Milwaukee | The Problems of Surgeons: The Problem Surgeon |
| 1972 | May 11 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 15 – 16 Maxwelton Brae’s, Baileys Harbor | Wayne J. Boulanger, Milwaukee | |
| 1971 | May 12 Sheraton-Schroeder Hotel, Milwaukee September 17 -19 Abbey on Lake Geneva, Fontana | Ben R. Lawton, Marshfield | |
| 1970 | May 14 Milwaukee Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee September 19 Mercy Hospital, Oshkosh | * C. Sherrill Rife, Milwaukee | |
| 1969 | May 15 Milwaukee County General Hospital, Milwaukee September 18 – 24 University of Innsbruck Medical School Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria | Kenneth Carter, Beloit | Tis a Changing World |
| 1968 | May 16 VA Hospital, Milwaukee September 2 St. Mary’s Hospital, Madison | John T. Mendenhall, Madison | Doctors Afield |
| 1967 | May 11 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 15 – 16 Gateway Hotel, Land O’Lakes | Albert G. Martin, Milwaukee | The Surgeon and Society |
| 1966 | May 12 La Crosse Lutheran and St. Francis Hospitals, La Crosse September 10 Wisconsin General Hospital, Madison | Russell P. Sinaike, Madison | The Wisconsin Surgical Society – 20 Years of Progress |
| 1965 | May 6 Milwaukee County General Hospital, Milwaukee September 10 – 11 Maxwelton Brae’s, Baileys Harbor | * Irwin Schulz, Milwaukee | Changing Truths |
| 1964 | May 13 Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee September 12 Madison General Hospital, Madison | Norman O. Becker, Fond du Lac | A Comparative Study of Current Methods of Treatment of Carcinoma of the Breast |
| 1963 | May 9 St. Mary’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 13 – 14 Manitowish Waters | C. Morrison Schroeder, Milwaukee | Prognosis of the Wisconsin Surgical Society |
| 1962 | May 10 Wood VA Hospital, Milwaukee September 15 Madison University and VA Hospitals, Madison | * Anthony R. Curreri, Madison | |
| 1961 | May 4 Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 16 Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, Wausau | Jack A. Killins, Green Bay | The Dilemmas of Clinical Surgery |
| 1960 | May 5 Columbia Hospital, Milwaukee September 16 - 17 Wagon Wheel Lodge, Rockton, IL (combined meeting with the WI Society of Internal Medicine) | * Peter A. H. Midelfort, Eau Claire | |
| 1959 | May 7 Milwaukee Hospital, Milwaukee September 19 Mercy Hospital, Oshkosh | * James M. Sullivan, Milwaukee | Appendicitis is Still with Us |
| 1958 | May 8 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 18 – 19 Gateway, Land O’Lakes | * Kenneth E. Lemmer, Madison | Responsibility in Authorship |
| 1957 | May 8 Milwaukee County General Hospital, Milwaukee September 21 Madison General Hospital, Madison | * Joseph M. King, Milwaukee | Historical Backgrounds of Wisconsin Surgery |
| 1956 | May 2 Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee September 14 – 16 King’s Gateway, Land O’Lakes | * Thomas J. Snodgrass, Janesville | Cocktails, Canapes and Colic |
| 1955 | April 16 St. Mary’s Hospital, Racine September 10 Milwaukee County General Hospital, Milwaukee | * Sigurd Gundersen, La Crosse | Remarks on Medicine in Norway |
| 1954 | May 1 VA Hospital, Madison September 17 - 18 Northernaire, Three Lakes | * Frank D. Weeks, Ashland | An Unusual Case of Breast Carcinoma |
| 1953 | May 9 Madison September 12 Milwaukee Hospital, Milwaukee | * Forrester Raine, Milwaukee | |
| 1952 | April 26 Methodist Hospital, Madison September 13 Columbia Hospital, Milwaukee | * Joseph W. Gale, Madison | Twenty-five Years’ Experience in the Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis |
| 1951 | April 21 Madison General Hospital, Madison September 22 Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee | * Arnold S. Jackson, Milwaukee | Wisconsin’s Place in Surgery |
| 1950 | April 29 Wisconsin General Hospital, Madison September 16 Milwaukee Veterans Hospital, Milwaukee | * Warner S. Bump, Rhinelander | |
| 1949 | May 7 St. Mary’s, Racine September 17 Milwaukee County Hospital, Milwaukee | * Carl W. Eberbach, Milwaukee | Surgery – the Past and Present |
| 1948 | February 14 Milwaukee Veterans, Milwaukee General and Milwaukee Children’s Hospitals, Milwaukee May 15 St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield September 18 Methodist and Wisconsin General Hospitals, Madison | * Edwin R. Schmidt, Madison | The Changing Horizon in Surgery |
| 1947 | May 15 Wisconsin General and Methodist Hospitals, Madison | * Russell M. Kurten, Racine | |
| 1946 | November 15 Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, Milwaukee | * F. Gregory Connell, Oshkosh |
* Indicates Founding Member
** First joint meeting of The Wisconsin Surgical Society and the Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Surgeons