Presidential Guest Speaker
Tommy Lasorda
Friday, May 18th
10:45 AM

Regarded by many as baseball’s most popular ambassador, Tommy Lasorda begins his 63rd season in the Los Angeles Dodger organization and sixth as Special Advisor to the Chairman.

Lasorda compiled a 1,599-1,439 record and won two World Championships, four National League pennants and eight division titles in an extraordinary 20 year career as the Dodgers’ manager. He ranks 17th with 1,599 wins and 16th with 3,038 games managed in Major League history. His 16 wins in 30 National League Championship Series games managed were the most of any manager at the time of his retirement in 1996. His 61 postseason games managed ranks fifth all time behind Joe Torre (138), Bobby Cox (136), Tony LaRussa (107), and Casey Stengel (63). He is only one of five managers to manage the same team for 20 years or more, joining Walt Alston, Connie Mack, John McGraw and Bobby Cox.

In 1997, Lasorda was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in his first year of eligibility. He was the 14th manager and 52nd Dodger inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Lasorda and his wife, Jo, have been married for 60 years and reside in Fullerton, CA. The couple renamed a gymnasium and youth center in memory of their son, Tom Jr., in Yorba Linda, CA on Sept. 7, 1997. They are also the proud grandparents of Emily Tess (15), the child of their daughter, Laura Lasorda.
 

 

Richard M. Satava, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington
Thursday, May 17th
11:05 AM

“Future of Surgical Simulation”

Richard M. Satava, MD FACS, is Professor of Surgery at University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle), and Senior Science Advisor at US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in Ft. Detrick, MD.

Prior positions include Professor of Surgery at Yale University, military appointment as Professor of Surgery (USUHS) Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Program Manager at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Undergraduate training was Johns Hopkins University, medical school at Hahnemann University of Philadelphia, internship at Cleveland Clinic, surgical residency at Mayo Clinic with a Master of Surgical Research. During 23 years of military surgery he has been an active flight surgeon, an Army astronaut candidate, MASH surgeon for the Grenada Invasion, and a hospital commander during Desert Storm, all the while continuing clinical surgical practice.

He has served on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Committee on Health, Food and Safety. He is on numerous committees of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), is past-president of many surgical societies, on the editorial board of numerous surgical and scientific journals, and active in numerous engineering societies. He has been continuously active in surgical education and surgical research, with more than 200 publications and book chapters in diverse areas of advanced surgical technology, including Surgery in the Space Environment, Video and 3-D imaging, Plasma Medicine, Telepresence Surgery, Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation, and Objective Assessment of Surgical Competence and Training.