Kristaps Keggi

[3] Kristaps Keggi was born in Riga, Latvia on August 9, 1934, in the family of surgeon Jānis Kegi.

[5] Keggi was stationed with the 173rd Airborne as Chief of Surgery at the 3rd Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Biên Hòa, Vietnam.

[7] From 1987, he regularly visited Latvia, where he performed demonstration operations, conducted seminars, and gave lectures.

[8] In 1988, he founded the non-profit Keggi Orthopaedic Foundation to allow for formal academic exchanges between the United States and the USSR.

[9] The organization has provided fellowships in advanced orthopaedic surgery at the Yale School of Medicine and at Waterbury Hospital for more than 300 surgeons from the Baltic nations, Russia, and Vietnam.

[19] Keggi received the Latvian Order of the Three Stars in 1993, the V Class Order of the Estonian Red Cross in 1999, the Distinguished Service Medal of the Latvian Physicians Association (the second ever awarded) in 2009 and the Silver Medal of Medical Dignity and Service to Russian Medicine in 2012.