Lewis Atterbury Conner, one of the founding group of the American Heart Association in 1924 and its first president in 1924 to 1925, is honored by the Lewis Conner Memorial Lecture at the annual American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. Conner was born in New Albany, Ind, and received the degree of bachelor of philosophy from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1887. He ...

Lewis A. Conner, MD (1867 to 1950), was a pioneer in public health cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation, and cardiac psychology. He helped establish the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and was the founding president of the New York and American Heart Associations (AHA). Dr Conner was the founder of the American Heart Journal, America's first medical subspecialty journal, and the official publicatio...