Scientific Sessions 2025

2024 Topics and Speakers

Aric Christal, MD Edmonds, WA Knee Replacement: Past, Present and Future

Laura Lacroix, RN Street Medicine Team Carlisle, PA Ouch!  Managing the Complexities of Wounds in the Homeless

Adella Garland, MD  San Jose, CA  A Tale of Two Tacos

Gregg Adams, MD  San Carlos, CA Preparation for Mass Casualty Events

Joseph Marshall, Jr, PhD  San Francisco, CA The Prescription to End Violence

David Verst, MD  Hailey, ID How the Blending of Robotics and Navigation Technology is Improving Spine Surgery Outcomes

Natalie Eggleston, MD Billings, MT  Previa: What Was Toyota Thinking?

Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C USC Street Medicine Los Angeles, CA  Liberation and the Social Teaching of Street Medicine

Stephen Smith, Jr, MD Columbus, OH Comprehensive Management of the Nasal Airway

Fernando Urrego, MD  San Francisco, CA  Cleared for Take-Off-Optimizing the Preoperative Evaluation for Pediatric Patients

Andy Sorenson, MD Berkeley, CA Sustainable Eye Care in Western Guatemala:  See One, Do One, Teach 10,000

2023 Topics and Speakers

Traci Granston, MD  Bigfork, MT AI for MSK Care

Abhishake Banda, MD, DMD  Bellevue, WA Orthognathic Surgery:  Make My Jaws Great Again

Cariann Shae, MD  Wenatchee, WA  The History of Forceps:  Is There a Future?

Aruna Venkatesan, MD  San Jose, CA  Making Life Better:  Treating Vulvar Lesions and Pruritus

Julius Young, JD  Hillsborough, CA  Workers Comp in Healthcare During a Pandemic

Steven Katz, MD  Phoenix, AZ  Mistakes in the IVF Clinic:  How Do We Handle Them?

Katherine Yung, MD  San Francisco, CA  Gender Affirming Voice Care

Peter Rork, MD  Jackson, Wyoming  Dog is My Copilot

Andrew Tomlinson, MD  Reno, NV  Facial Trauma: From the Ski Hill to the Pain Pill

Eric Johnson, MD  Driggs, ID  Wilderness Medicine Iditarod Style

Serena Liu, MD  Stanford, CA The Rise and Fall of Roe

Najwa Javed, DPM, MPH  San Jose, CA  May the Force Be With You:  A New Frontier for Biologics

Gene Therapy and the Eye  Debbie Costakos, MD, MS Milwaukee, WI

Upending White Privilege in Health Care  Faye Siegler, CNM Menlo Park, CA

COVID-19:  An Example of How (Not) to Streamline Drug Repurposing for Pandemic Viral Disease  Jaap Mandema, PhD Manhattan Beach, CA

Gynecologic Cancers -The Science is Paying Off for Our Patients  Oliver Dorigo, MD, PhD Stanford, CA

Impact of Unionization on Healthcare Delivery  Dan Julius, PhD Jersey City, NJ

Recovery From the Depths of Despair: From Warts to Wound  Najwa Javed, DPM, MPH San Jose, CA 

Who Killed Theranos? Why Boards of Directors Matter  Ron Weissman, PhD Menlo Park, CA

Coronavirus, SARS, and Other Emerging Infections  Yvonne Maldonado, MD Stanford, CA

Opioid Reduction and Multimodal Analgesia in Your Practice  Jacob Hutchins, MD, MHA Minneapolis, MN

Surgery, Medicine and Volunteering in the Developing World  Tom Jurich, MD Bellingham, WA

COVID-19 in the ICU Maria Evasovich, MD Minneapolis, MN

Tom Archie, MD, Ketchum, ID, Classical Neijing Medicine
Matt Bruner, DDS, MS  Redmond, WA,  Marshmallows, Subarus, and The Power of Positivity
Tony Buoncristiani, MD Ketchum, ID, Prevention of Knee and Shoulder Injuries
John Freeman, PhD, Iowa City, Iowa Memory Research
Marc Goldyne, MD, PhD, San Francisco, CA, From Ukuleles to Better Health
Eric Johnson MD  Bozeman, MT, Antimicrobial Resistance for The Traveler
Dan Julius, PhD, New Haven, CT, An Assault on Scientific Truths: Is It Deja Vu All Over Again?
Milt McColl, MD, Los Altos, CA, From NFL Linebacker to Family Medicine Doctor: Taking The Long Road and Loving It
Leah Millheiser, MD, Stanford, CA, Female Sexual Dysfunction
Nissrine Nakib, MD Minneapolis, MN, Alternative Therapies for Female Stress Incontinence
Karen Smith-McCune, MD, PhD San Francisco, CA, HPV Vaccine: Who, What, Where, When and How

Current Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jaap Mandema, PhD Atherton, CA

Pediatric Sports: Pressuring Our Kids to Injury
Brian Haus, MD Davis, CA

Clitoral Restoration After Female Genital Mutilation
Marci Bowers, MD Burlingame, CA

Stroke Update 2019: Delayed Clot Removal
Jim Torres, MD Hailey, Idaho

Regenerating the Perfect Face
Jill Helms, DDS, PhD Stanford, CA

Zika and other Mosquito Borne Diseases
Bonnie Maldonado, MD Stanford, CA

Aging Skin and What To Do About It
Ruby Ghadially, MD San Francisco, CA

Physician Wellness-Are We Just Supposed To Be More Resilient?
Jody Leng, MD Palo Alto, CA

Development of the Artificial Meniscus: Ten Years in the Making
Henry Klyce San Francisco, CA

Reverse Shoulder Replacement: A Clinical Trial
Brian Cameron, MD Edmonds, WA

Vaseline, Since 1872—Why?
Marc Goldyne, MD, PhD, Dermatology, San Francisco, CA

Basilar Thumb Arthritis
Traci Barthel, MD, Orthopedic Hand Surgery, Renton, WA

To Clear or Not to Clear…That is the Question for Pediatric Sports
Renee Rodriguez, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Dublin, CA

Gender Affirmation Surgery
John Paro, MD, Plastic Surgery, Dublin, CA

Pediatric Ocular Trauma
Deborah Costakos, MD, Ophthalmology, Milwaukee, WI

Robotic Spinal Surgery
David Verst, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Hailey, ID

Female Incontinence: Could you Hold That Please?
Nissrine Nakib, MD, Urology, Minneapolis, MN

Advances in Immunotherapy for Gynecologic Cancers
Oliver Dorigo, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford, CA

Medical Marijuana: Highly Effective or Highly Overrated?
Kayvahn Steck-Bayat, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Phoenix, AZ

Improving Surgical Outcomes with ERAS
Andrew Shelton, MD, Colo-Rectal Surgery, Stanford, CA

Understanding and Preventing Medication Errors
Steve Victor, MD, Anesthesiology, San Francisco, CA

Creating a New Tooth with a Dental Implant
Kevin Kohler, DMD, Poway, CA

Plantar Fasciitis-Really?
Chris Horine, DPM, San Jose, CA

Complex Joint Reconstruction
Aric Christal, MD, Edmonds, WA

Traumatic Brain Injury
Odette Harris, MD, MPH, Stanford, CA

Neuroradiology and Stroke
Ramin Saket, MD, Santa Clara, CA

Wilderness Medicine Potpourri
Eric Johnson, MD, Bozeman, MT

Stem Cells and Aging
Ruby Ghadially, MD, Stanford, CA

Understanding and Working with the Traumatized Brain
Robin Grant-Hall, Glastonbury, CT

Ethics As We Go
Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH, Portland, OR

Advances in Retinal Imaging
Ted Leng, MD, Stanford, CA

Bees, Stings, Anaphylaxis
James Torres, MD, Ketchum, ID

The Age One Dental Visit
Cody Mast, DMDPM, Pediatric Dentistry, Bellevue, WA

Is that Bump a Bunion or Hallux Abducto Valgus?
Chris Horine, DPM, Podiatric Medicine, San Jose, CA

Shipboard Based Polar Medicine
Dan Zak, MD, Internal Medicine, Bothell, WA

Sir William Osler and Telemedicine
Marc Goldyne, MD, Dermatology, San Francisco, CA

Burning Topics in Regional Anesthesia
Jody Leng, MD, Anesthesiology, Stanford, CA

How a Medical Error Can Change Your Life
Steven Katz, MD, Obstetrics/Gynecology,Reproductive Endocrinology, Greenbrae, CA

Childhood Abuse and Adult Trauma Understanding and Working with the Traumatized Brain
Robin Grant-Hall, PhD, Psychologist, Glastonbury, CT

Controversies in Pediatric Vaccines
Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado, MD, Pediatrics, Stanford, CA

Advances in Immunotherapy for Ovarian Cancer
Oliver Dorigo, MD, PhD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford, CA

Medical Teams International: Dealing With Natural Disaster, Internal Conflict and Extreme Poverty
Jerry Mitchell, DDS, General Dentistry, Ketchum, ID

Laparoscopy: Potentials and Pitfalls
Jillian Main, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, San Jose, CA

Knee Injuries in Winter Sports
Tony Buoncristiani, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ketchum, ID

Loss of Vision (Temporary) or Potentially Permanent (Macular Degeneration)
Perry Binder, MS, MD, Ophthalmology, San Diego, CA

Controversies in Reproductive Medicine
Lynn Westphal, MD, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Stanford, CA

An Internist’s Approach to the Patient with Chronic Heart Failure
Michael Fowler, MD, Cardiology, Stanford, CA

Hypothermia and Cold Immersion
David Walters, MD, Emergency Medicine, Davis ,CA

Preterm Delivery Prevention 2015
Matt Garabedian, MD, MPH, San Jose, CA

It’s All in Your Head: The Biology of Stem Cells and Hope of Regenerative Medicine
Jill Helms, DDS, PhD, Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford, CA

Hand Injuries in Winter
Charlotte Alexander, MD, Ketchum, ID

Efficient Development of Novel Diabetes Medicines, Making Better Use of All Available Data
Jaap Mandema, PhD, Clinical Pharmacology, Menlo Park, CA

The End of Sex: The Future of Human Reproduction
Hank Greely, JD, Law and Biomedical Ethics, Stanford, CA

General Surgery Approaches to Thyroid Cancer
Carl Bertelsen, MD, General Surgery, Stanford, CA

Childhood Traumatic Stress: What it is and Why it Matters
Chris Bray, PhD, LPC, Psychology, St Paul, MN

Anesthesiology and Street Drugs
Richard Cano, MD, Anesthesiology, Ames, IA

Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Michele Hugin, MD

Orthodontic Update 2014
Richard Mays, DDS

Suicide
Sally Behel, MD

Appreciating the Opposable Thumb
Traci Barthel, MD

Personalized Medicine has Arrived: Using Genomic Tools to Improve Heart Transplant Care
Hannah Valantine, MD

Ovarian Cancer: Current and Novel Treatment Options
Oliver Dorigo, MD

Human Breast Feeding and Oral Health
Dan O’Brien, DDS

Evolution of Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer
Carl Bertelsen, MD

Breast Reconstruction
Kamakshi Zeidler, MD

Office Management of the Chemically Dependent Patient-Pearls and Perils
Lynn Hankes, MD

Teledermatology
Marc Goldyne, MD

Concussions: Doc, When can I…?
Tony Buoncristiani, MD