Scott Kozin, MD-PhD

Keynote Presenter

Chief of Staff for Shriners Hospitals for Children - Philadelphia, Clinical Professor for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine, Team Leader for the Touching Hands Project, and board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Scott H. Kozin, MD-PhD, will share his experience as the first to successfully perform a bilateral hand transplant. Dr. Kozin is also past president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and past president of the American Association of Hand Surgery. 

David R. Shlim, MD

David R. Shlim, M.D. first visited Nepal in 1979 to work as a volunteer doctor for the Himalayan Rescue Association, at an aid post at 14,000 feet.  After three stints near the base of Mt. Everest, he moved to Kathmandu in 1983 to begin what became a fifteen-year career as the Medical Director of the CIWEC Clinic Travel Medicine Center in Kathmandu, the world’s busiest destination travel medicine clinic.  He is the author of more than forty-five original research papers, numerous chapters in textbooks, and is the recent past-president of the International Society of Travel Medicine. 

He was the Director of the Himalayan Rescue Association for more than ten years.  He also provided free medical care for a Tibetan Buddhist monastery for fourteen years, and developed a close relationship with the head of the monastery, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, and his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who was recognized as one of the greatest meditation teachers of the twentieth century.  He also offered free medical care to all newly arrived Tibetan refugees who came over the Himalayan passes from Tibet.  

He is the co-author, with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, of Medicine and Compassion: An American Doctor and a Tibetan Lama on How to Provide Care with Compassion and Wisdom.  The book has been translated into four other languages.  He resides in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he practices travel medicine and teaches Tibetan Buddhism.  He has nearly finished a memoir of his experiences of living and working in Nepal.

Pat Basu, MD, MBA

Former Chief Medical Officer of Doctor On Demand and current Senior Vice President of Optum at UnitedHealth Group, Pat Basu, MD, MBA, will speak about the current and future forms of virtual and remote healthcare. Dr. Basu is a former Stanford Physician and White House Fellow.

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Instrumental in starting Doctor On Demand, the nation's largest provider of video visits and a covered telehealth benefit for over 30 million Americans, Dr. Basu will enlighten attendees with insights and expertise in the future of virtual medical care delivery systems and what that means for doctors and patients in Wyoming.