Specialties:
Orthopedic Surgeon, Reconstructive Surgeon
Address:
800 Howard Avenue, New Haven, CT 06519
1579 Straits Turnpike, Middlebury, CT 06762
Education:
Medical School - Yale University
Yale University (Residency)
Languages:
English, French, German, Latvian
Professional Memberships:
American Orthopaedic Association, American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, Connecticut State Medical Society
Awards and Publications:
Yale Orthopaedic Teaching Award, 1969, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1993, 1999 Kristaps Juris Keggi Endowed Professorship of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Yale University, established April 2010, Yale University Athletics 2005 George Herbert Walker Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award, Top Doctors in Connecticut, Connecticut Magazine 2003 - 2012, Orthopedist of the Year 2001, Connecticut Orthopedic Society, Honorary Doctorate, Latvian Medical Academy (Medicinae Doctorem Honoris Causa), 1997, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Quinnipiac College, 2000, Honorary Doctorate, University of Latvia (Doctor honoris causa Universitatis Latviennis) 2009, Doctor honoris causa, Burdenko Military Hospital, Moscow 1988, Latvian Order of the Three Stars, 1995, V Class Order of the Estonian Red Cross, 1999, Distinguished Member Award and Distinguished Service Medal, Latvian Physicians Association, 2009, Silver Medal of Medical Dignity and Service to Russian Medicine. Moscow, Russia 2012, Keggi, K.J. and Light, T.: The Anterior Approach to Total Hip Replacement,American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada 1977., Light, T. and Keggi, K.J.: Anterior Approach to Total Hip Replacement,Clinical Orthopaedics, October 1980, Vol. 152, pp. 255-260, Hendrikson, R.P. and Keggi, K.J.: Anterior Approach to Resurfacing Arthroplasty of the Hip: A Preliminary Experience, ConnecticutMedicine, March 1983, Vol. 47, pp. 8-12, Barrasso, J. and Keggi, K.J.: Simplified Reaming of the Deformed FemoralCanal in Total Hip Surgery, Orthopaedic Review, September 1983,Vol. 12, pp. 111-112., Keggi, K.J.: Cementless Ceramic Hip Replacement, The Anterior Approach,Glaxo-Masters of Surgery Series, 1985
Board certifications:
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
Hospital affiliations:
Waterbury Hospital Health Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital
About:
Dr. Kristaps J. Keggi earned his B. A. and M. D degrees from Yale University and after two years of general surgery at The Roosevelt Hospital in New York,
returned to Yale to comp...