1988-2008 20th ANNIVERSARY
Celebrating 20 years of Research, Education and Exchange
Kristaps J. Keggi, M.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education and Professional Training
Yale University, 1955, B.A.
Yale University of Medicine, 1959, M.D.
Connecticut State License, 7/12/61
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1/16/68
Intern & Assistant Resident Surgery
The Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY 7/1/59 to 6/30/61
Assistant Resident & Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery
Yale University
Yale New Haven Hospital
West Haven Veteran's Hospital
Newington's Children's Hospital
7/1/61 to 6/30/64
Captain, MC, USAR
Orthopaedic Staff, William Beaumont General Hospital, 1964 - 1965
Chief, Orthopaedic Surgery, Third Surgical hospital, Vietnam 1965 - 1966
 
Hospital Appointments
Assistant Attending & Attending, Yale New Haven Hospital, full-time 1966 - 1969
Attending & Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon, West Haven Veteran's Administration Hospital, 1966 - present
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Yale University, Student Health Department 1966 - 1969
Consultant, State of Connecticut, Laurel Heights Hospital, 1967 - 1975
Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, CT 1969 - present
Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT 1970 - 1989 (Courtesy Staff, 1989 - present)
Director, Orthopaedic Center for Joint Reconstruction, Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, CT 1992 to present
 
Academic Appointments
Yale Orthopaedic Teaching Award, 1969, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1993
Honorary Doctorate, Latvian Medical Academy (Medicinae Doctorem Honoris Causa), 1997
Latvian Academy of Science, June 1990, Honorary Member
Russian Academy of Medical Science, 1993, Honorary Member
Latvian Order of the Three Stars, 1995
Stradins Prize, Latvian Academy of Science, 1994
Latvian Home Guard Association, Honorary Advisory Member of the General Staff, 1993
Scientific Society of Traumatologists and Orthopaedists of the Latvian SSR, USSR, Honorary Member
Georgian (Soviet) Republic Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Honorary Member, 1991
Ukranian Scientific Society of Orthopaedists and Traumatologists, Honorary Member, 1992
Venezuelan Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Honorary Member, March 1990
Latvian Total Hip and Knee Association, Honorary Member, February 1998
Dernell Every Medal (Yale Friends of Fencing), 1998
 
Academic Awards and Honors
Yale University School of Medicine
Instructor, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1963 - 1964
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1966 - 1969
Assistant Clinical Professor, 1969 - 1982
Assistant Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, 1982 - 1989
Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, 1989 - Present
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Surgical Associates, Bethesda, MD
 
Public or Community Service Activities and Committee Assignments
Dean's Council, Yale University School of Medicine, 1989 - present
Yale Orthopaedic Alumni Association, Executive Committee, 1989 - present
President, Yale Fencing Association, 1985 - present
Member, Yale Athletic Federation
Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine, AYA Representative
Executive Committee, Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
Yale Medical School Class of 1959, Reunion Committee
Chairman, Associates of the Yale Medical Library, 1978 to 1981
Founder and President of the Keggi Orthopaedic Foundation and Orthopaedic Academic Exchange Program between the United States and Russia Former Soviet Republics
Ludis Berzins Museum, Latvian Cultural Center, Jurmala, Latvia, Founder and President, 1990 - present
Keggi Velo (Riga to Aluksne bicycle race), Sponsor, 1990 - present
Founder and Chairman, Riga-American, Ltd.
Fellow and Associate Fellow, Saybrook College, Yale University, 1967 - 1987
Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation, Order of Merit, 1987 - 1995
U.S. Rowing Funds Organization, Board of Directors "Power Ten"
U.S. Baltic Foundation, Medical Advisory Group
Bascom Society, University of Wisconsin
New Haven County Medical Association Loss Control Committee (Malpractice), 1981 - present
Waterbury Hospital Medical Staff Executive Committee, 1978 - 1981
Committee on Applicants, Amercian College of Surgeons, (District 3, Connecticut), 1978 - present
 
Scholarly Society Memberships
American College of Surgeons
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Eastern Orthopaedic Association
American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons
Society for Arthritic Joint Surgery
Cervical Spine Research Society
American Academy of Sports Physicians
American Medical Association
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, 1970 - 1988
Connecticut State Medical Society
New Haven County Medical Association
Waterbury Medical Association
World Medical Association
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, January 1990
 
Chairman or Committee Member
Connecticut Chairman, Trauma Committee of the American College of Surgeons, 1968 - 1972
Sub-Committee on Emergency Room Care, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 1970 - 1977
Chairman, Hip and Knee Replacement Courses, (Yale Orthopaedic Alumni Association), Hawaii, 1986; Banff, Canada, 1988; Napa, California, 1990
Chairman, "Symposium on Sports Medicine", Riga, Latvia, July 1998
Faculty Member Hip Reconstruction Courses:
Yale University, October 1983; Los Angeles, December 1983;
Hospital for Joint Disease, New York, July 1984; San Francisco, July 1984;
Switzerland, March 1985; Stamford, Connecticut, January 1989;
Hilton Head, South Carolina, May 1989
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 1998,
Smith & Nephew Course, Kohler, Wisconsin, July 2002,
Smith & Nephew Course, Canada, July 2003,
RWJ University Course, New Jersey, September 2003,
Clinical Orthopaedic Society Annual Conference, South Carolina, October 2004,
New York Medical College Symposium, Rye, New York, October 2004,
Jack Haugh Memorial Lecture, "Advances in Total Joint Replacement",St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, October 30, 2004,
Chairman, Orthopaedic Symposium ("Keggi Days"), Riga, Latvia, April 1989
Chairman, Orthopaedic Symposium, ("Keggi Days"), Riga, Latvia, April 1990
Chairman, Orthopaedic Symposium, ("Keggi Days"), Riga, Latvia, April 1991
Chairman, Orthopaedic Symposium, ("Keggi Days"), Vilnius, Lithuania, May 1992
Chairman, Orthopaedic Symposium, ("Keggi Days"), Tallinn, Estonia, May 1993
Chairman, Orthopaedic Symposium, ("Keggi Days"), Riga, Latvia, May 1995
Chairman, International Seminar on Extremity Wound Management, Riga, Latvia, November 1998
 
Visiting Lectuere and/or Surgeon
University of Maryland, January 1977
University of Iowa, August 1984 and 1986
University of New Mexico, October 1984
New England Baptist Hospital, November 1984
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, November 1985
Northwestern University, January 1986
Riga Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Latvia, USSR, 1988 - 1991
Tashkent Institute of Orthopaedics, Uzbekistan, USSR, May 1988
Tblisi Institute of Orthopaedics, Georgia, USSR, January 1989
Vilnius Institute of Orthopaedics, Lithuania, USSR, April 1989
Sophia, Bulgaria, May 1989
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, August 1989
Irkutsk, Siberia, USSR, August 1989
Kiev, Ukraine, USSR, October 1989
Moscow, 1st Army Hospital, USSR, 1991
Moscow, Kremlin Hospital, USSR, April and July 1990
Tallinn, Estonia, USSR, 1990 - 1991
Yaroslavl, Russia, USSR, 1991
Loyola University, April 1992
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, April 1992
Louisiana State University Medical Center, June 1994
Moscow, 1st Army Hospital, November 1995 and April 1996
Vladivostok, December 1995 and September 1997
Novosibirsk, April 1996
Latvian Orthopaedic Hospital (Riga), 4 - 5+ years, 1991 - present
Connecticut State Orthopaedic Society Speaker, May 1998
University of Pennsylvania, September 1998
First Baltic Conference, Jurmala, Latvia, October 1999
Ninth International Zweymuller Symposium, California, November 1999
Lithuania Orthopedic Congress, April 2002
Ocksner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2003
Phoenix, Arizona, April 2003
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 2004
Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, May 2004
Board of Directors, U.S. Baltic Foundation, 1996 - present
 
Research Support
National Insurance Safety Committee Trauma Study Grant, $20,000, 1966 - 1969
 
Bibliography
Light, T. and Keggi, K.J.:
Anterior Approach to Total Hip Replacements, Clinical Orthopaedics, Vol.152, October, 1980, pp. 255-260.
Skoff, J.D. and Keggi, K.J.:
Total Hip Replacement in the Neuromuscularly Impaired, Orthopaedic Review, Vol. XV, No.3, March 1986, pp. 154-159.
Keggi, K.J.; Huo, M.H.; Zatorski, L.E.:
Anterior Approach to Total Hip Replacement Surgical Technique and Clinical Results of Our First 1000 Cases Using Non-Cemented Prosthesis, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, September, 1993.
Huo, M.H.; Cox, M.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
Oblique Femoral Osteotomy in Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty. A Prospective Consecutive Series with Minimum 3 Year Follow-up, Journal of Arthroplasty, 1995, Vol. 10, No. 3.
Huo, M.H.; Martin, R.P.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
Total Hip Arthroplasty Using the Zweymuller Stem Implanted Without Cement, Journal of Arthroplasty, Vol. 10, No. 6, 1995.
Huo, M.H.; Martin, R.P.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasties Using Ceramic-on-Ceramic Articulations in Young Patients: A Minimum Five Year Follow-up Study, Journal of Arthroplasty, September 1996, 11(6), 673-678.
Huo, M.H.; Martin, R.P.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
Total Hip Replacements Using the Ceramic Mittelmeier Prosthesis, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, No. 332, pp.143-150, November 1996.
Huo, M.H.; Fye, M.A.; Martin, R.P.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
Unsatisfactory Results of a First-Generation Modular Femoral Stem Implanted Without Cement, Journal of Arthroplasty, Volume 12, No. 5, August 1997.
Huo, M.H., Solberg, B.D., Zatorski, L.E. and Keggi, K.J.:
Total Hip Replacements Done Without Cement After Acetabular Fractures, Journal of Arthroplasty, October 1999, Vol.14, No.7.
Grauer, Jonathan; Keggi, J.M. and Keggi, K.J.:
Superior Mesenteric Vein Tear With Total Hip Arthroplasty, Journal of Arthoplasty, August 2001, Vol. 16 No. 5
Kennon, R.E.; Keggi, J.M.; Wetmore, R.S.; Zatorski, L.E.; Huo, M.H.; Keggi, .J.:
Total Hip Arthroplasty Through A Minimally InvasiveAnterior Surgical approach, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol. 85A,Supplement 4, 2003
Kennon, R.E.; Keggi, J.M.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
Anterior Approach For Total Hip Arthroplasty: Beyond The Minimally Invasive Technique, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol. 86-A, Supplement 2, 2004
Keggi, K.J.; Keggi, J.M.; Kennon, R.E.:
Minimal Incision Total Hip Arthroplasty Via The Anterior Approach, Current Opinion in Orthopaedics, Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2005
Keggi, K.J.:
Cementless Ceramic Hip Replacement, The Anterior Approach, Glaxo-Masters of Surgery Series, 1985.
McGowen, T.W. and Keggi, K.J.:
Cement removal in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty, Orthopaedic Consultation, Vol. 11, No. 8, September, 1990.
Hoffinger, S.A.; Keggi, K.J. and Zatorski, L.E.:
Primary Ceramic Hip Replacement: A Prospective Study of 119 Hips, Orthopaedics, Vol. 14, No. 5, May, 1991.
Huo, M.H.; Elliot, A.J. and Keggi, K.J.:
Periprosthetic Infection in Total Hip Replacement Management with Temporary Prosthesis and Antibiotic Impregnated Cement Between Stages, Journal of Orthopaedic Techniques, 2 (3), pp. 93-102, 1994.
Lorenze, M., Huo, M.H., Zatorski, L.E. and Keggi, K.J.:
A Comparison Of The Cost Effectiveness Of One-Stage Versus Two-Stage Bilateral Total Hip Replacement, Orthopedics, December 1998, Vol. 21, No.12,1249-1252
Weinstein, M.A.; Keggi, J.M.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
One-State Bilateral Total Hip Arthroplasty in Patients > 75 Years, Orthopedics, February 2002, Vol. 25, No.2.
DiCaprio, M.R.; Huo, M.H.; Zatorski, L.E.; Keggi, K.J.:
Incidence of HeterotopicOssification Following Total Hip Arthroplasty in Patients with Prior Stroke, Orthopedics, January 2004, Vol. 27, No.1.
Kennon, R.E.; Keggi, J.M.; Keggi, K.J.:
The Anterior Approach to Hip Arthroplasty: The Short, Single Minimally Invasive Incision, Operative Techniques in Ortho