Stuart A. Green, MD Presentation Title: Advances in Medical Technology: Lessons from the Burgess Shale Dr. Green received his undergraduate degree from Lafayatte College and his medical doctorate degree from New York Medical College. He completed his surgical internship and residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York. Dr. Green completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego. He currently serves as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Green is the Deputy Editor for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; he has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, the Associate Editor for Advances in Orthopaedic Surgery, and the Associate Editor for Techniques in Orthopaedics. Dr. Green has been appointed a member of the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (2007). Dr. Green also works as a photographer (see stuartgreenphotos.com) and a painter (see stuartgreenpaintings.com). He is the author of "Dear Doctor Franklin; Emails to a Founding Father about Science, Medicine and Technology" (see deardoctorfranklin.com) Dr. Green is an orthopaedic surgeon whose subspecialty interest deals with post-trauma limb reconstruction, including non-unions, malunions, shortening and post-trauma infections of bones and joints. During the past 25 years, Dr. Green has lectured and published extensively on matters dealing with his area of expertise. He was the first American to visit Dr. G.A. Ilizarov in Kurgan, Russia and was instrumental in introducing the Ilizarov method of reconstructive surgery to the world's orthopaedic surgeons. Dr. Green is also actively engaged in research at two of UC Irvine's biomedical research labs. At the Biomechanic Lab at the Long Beach Veteran's Hospital, Dr. Green works with Thay Q. Lee, Ph.D. on problems related to the biomechanics of external skeletal fixation and internal fixation devices. In conjunction with Vincent Caiozzo Ph.D., Dr. Green studies the effect limb lengthening has on muscle tissue with the goal of the reducing the complication associated with limb elongation.
		Kalyanam Shivkumar, M.D., Ph.D. Presentation Title: New Advances in Cardiac Arrhythmia Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar received his medical degree from the University of Madras, India in 1991 and his PhD from UCLA in 2000. He completed his cardiology fellowship training at the University of California, Los Angeles, and upon completion of his training joined the faculty at University of Iowa as the Associate Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology. In 2002, he was recruited back to UCLA as the Director of the newly created UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His field of specialization is interventional cardiac electrophysiology and he heads a group at UCLA that is involved in developing innovative techniques for the non-pharmacological management of cardiac arrhythmias. Dr. Shivkumar is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialties of Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He holds memberships in several professional organizations, including the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Shivkumar’s clinical work deals with catheter ablation of complex arrhythmias and his research works deals with mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias. He also serves as a peer reviewer for several clinical and basic journals in cardiology.