RANDY Smith Lecturer
2024: Nuvi Mehta
Special Project Director Widely considered one of the finest speakers on classical music
Lecture: A Lifelong odyssey to understand and treat cerebrovascular disease, with a few detours
Appointed Director of Special Projects for the San Diego Symphony in 2006, Mehta launched the Symphony’s Classical Edge Series – multi-media concerts, introducing new patrons to ‘the stories behind the notes’. The series developed a large dedicated following, with Mehta’s on stage demonstrations and talks drawing up to 1000 patrons a night.
Conducting appearances have taken Mehta across the United States, to Europe and to Mexico. He has been a guest of the San Diego Symphony, the New World Symphony the Knoxville Symphony, the Fine Arts Chamber Orchestra of Mexico City, and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared as violin soloist with the San Diego Symphony, the Marquette Symphony, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, the American Youth Symphony, and as concertmaster and soloist with the New World Symphony. Mehta is a graduate of Indiana University and The Juilliard School.
In her capacity as the AANS/CNS Washington Representative, Ms. Orrico works closely with other medical societies on several legislative coalitions, serving in a leadership role in the Alliance of Specialty Medicine, Health Coalition on Liability and Access, Partnership to Improve Patient Care, Regulatory Relief Coalition, Surgical Care Coalition, and several workgroups established by the American Medical Association (AMA). In 2022, Ms. Orrico was selected to serve as a public member of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education Review Committee for Neurological Surgery. She recently concluded service as a public member on the American Board of Medical Specialties board of directors.
In recognition of her contributions, Ms. Orrico has received several awards, including the CNS Distinguished Service Award, AANS Distinguished Service
Award, AMA Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award, AANS/CNS Council of State Neurosurgical Societies Leibrock Lifetime Achievement
Award and the California Association of Neurological Surgeons George Ablin, MD Award for Distinguished Public Service. She is also an honorary member of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons. Ms. Orrico is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Health Lawyers Association, American Society of Medical Association Counsel, Women in Government Relations, Women in Health Policy and the Virginia Bar Association.