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This endowed lecture series is devoted to issues of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, topics central to the clinical practice of Dr. Carl Martinson, founder of the Martinson Clinic in Minnetonka.

Dr. Carl Martinson, born in Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1888, to Swedish immigrant parents, graduated from Union College in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1913. He taught chemistry and physics for 9 years, and while teaching in Chicago became acquainted with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan, who encouraged him to pursue medicine as a calling.

After medical school (at Loma Linda University, a Seventh-day Adventist Christian health sciences institution) and internship at Los Angeles County Hospital, Martinson entered the practice of medicine and surgery in 1927 in Wayzata, Minnesota. He founded the Martinson Clinic and the Minnetonka Hospital during his more than 40 years of practice there.

From its founding in 1927, Martinson's clinic has remained smoke-free. In his practice, Martinson stressed good health habits as a means of preventing disease. Hence the goals of the Martinson Lecture Series, which honors his memory and contributions to health promotion and disease prevention.

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	11th Annual Martinson Lecture - 2007:    Nancy Krieger, PhD,    Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the    Harvard School of Public Health   • The Elephants in the Room: Social Justice, Public Health, and Health Inequities
	10th Annual Martinson Lecture - 2006:   Julie E. Buring, ScD   Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School     • Aspirin and Vitamin E in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease:        The Women’s Health Study
	9th Annual Martinson Lecture - 2004:   Marion Nestle   New York University   • The Politics of Obesity Prevention:  Personal Responsibility versus Public Health        Note: Audio and slideshow begins immediately.
	8th Annual Martinson Lecture - 2003:   Darwin L. Labarthe, PhD   Centers for Disease Control  and Prevention     • How Far We've Come and How Far Yet to Go in CVD Prevention        Note: Audio and slideshow begins immediately.