 Thanks for joining us here at the third annual Vail Scientific Summit. I just caught up with Dr. Joel Madda, who is one of the newest physicians to join the Stedman Clinic team, and he talked about why moving to Vail was the right decision for him. Yeah, since 1990 I've specialized in problems related to the hip and pelvis. And I began my orthopedic career in 1980, which was mostly focused around orthopedic trauma and fracture surgeries, and then I started working on fracture problems, particularly fracture problems relating to the pelvis. Fractures of the pelvis, fractures of the acetabulum, which is fractures of the hip socket. And the reason I chose that is that I didn't think that there was let's say effective treatment being provided in the United States at that time. So when I came to USC, we had a very busy trauma center, Los Angeles County Hospital, which was one of the busiest trauma centers nationwide, maybe even the busiest nationwide. We had about 5,000 trauma admissions per year. There was nobody really working on the problem at LA County. When I said I wanted to treat all the pelvic and acetabular fractures, I said, great, we don't have to deal with them. You can have them. So I began a course of surgical treatment of the injuries. And so surgical treatment wasn't so common at that time, it was mostly nonoperative treatment, which didn't really make sense to me because fractures of human joints are usually treated surgically because they require very accurate reconstruction. So I developed quite a bit in the area of pelvic and acetabular fractures. At this point, the database that I've gathered has created the publications and peer review journals, which are really the largest series with the longest follow-up, up to 30-year follow-up that's been published in peer review journals. So I gained international recognition in this area. After 1990, I left USC. I had an endowed chair at a private hospital where I continued work with hip surgery. At that time, I started focusing just on the pelvic and acetabular fractures. I went away from other parts of trauma. I started also working in the 1980s with another procedure called periostabular osteotomy, which is a hip preservation procedure. I was one of the first in the world to do that, collaborating with some surgeons in Bern, Switzerland. And then also through the contact with Emil Letternel, I started working on a procedure called anti-approach hip replacement. In 1996, I began. So by the time that I've now looked at joining Stedman Clinic, the background has been for me with the fracture side, pelvic and acetabular fractures, hip preserving surgery with periostabular osteotomy, which I've now done for 30 years, and then also anti-approach hip replacement, which I've done for 20 years. So the connection I've had actually with French surgeons has been important with the acetabular pelvic fracture treatment, anti-approach hip replacement, and then with a group of Swiss surgeons with the hip preserving surgery. So coming to Stedman Clinic, the main focus that I have at this point in my career is actually advancing, improving, teaching regarding anti-approach hip replacement. So this is what I feel to be an improved way to do hip replacement. Patients recover more quickly, less chance of dislocation. We can be more accurate. We can essentially eliminate the problem of the legs coming out the wrong length with hip replacement. Stedman Clinic became very attractive to me for several reasons. One is the fantastic research setup they have with the Spry Institute. I think I can do much better now with combining my database with the Stedman Clinic. They have a fantastic clinical research mechanism. They also have the biologics research, and they have the biomechanical research. So what I can do in collaboration with these people is going to be better than what I could do with creating something on my own and with the help of some colleagues in Santa Monica. I think the scientific summit is a fantastic event. It's the first one I've been at, but Dr. Huard is putting on a very good program along with the other researchers like Dr. Tashman, who's heading the biomechanics unit. So a lot of it is outside of what I've ever done. I've just been involved in clinical research. I haven't been involved in the biologics regenerative research like they are. But talking to the researchers here, I see ways that we can collaborate. I want to make them aware of the clinical things I'm working on, and they'll see ways that they can apply their basic science methods to help with the clinical solutions. During my career, I've had a focus on, I would say, improving how surgery is done. That's been my primary focus, and so I've been fortunate enough to be able to make some contributions to orthopedic surgery. The methodology of orthopedic surgery, also the technology associated with the methodology, and to some extent some of the implants for use, some of the implants for fixation of fractures plus artificial hip joints. But as we're doing here at this scientific summit, we're hearing mostly from researchers, but it's a collaboration between clinicians, basic science researchers, but also the medical industry, the product producers of the medical industry. We can all work together to make improvements in medicine.