2005-2005

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
General Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Pediatric Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Surgical Residency, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, California
(Ca #A063639, DEA BD5644441)

Ross University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
(M.D. Degree, 6/96)

University of Oxford, New College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
(Medical Ethics and Medical Anthropology)

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Biomedical Sciences)

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
(Biomedical Sciences)

California State University, Long Beach, California.
(Bachelor of Science, Physiology/Zoology and minor in chemistry)

International Health Professional of the Year, International Biographical Centre,
Cambridge, England

First place, J Bradley Aust Surgical Society, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas

Dean's List, Basic Sciences Curriculum, Ross University, New York, New York

Teaching Assistant (Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Histology), Ross University, New York, New York

AIDS Foundation Summer Intern Scholarship/Award at the Children's Hospital,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

American Board of Plastic Surgery

American Board of Mesotherapy

Assistant Clinical Professor
Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery Institute, University of California, Irvine, California

Physician’s Care of California Insurance Services, Santa Ana, California

Paradigm Medical Management, Torrance, California

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, California

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Bakersfield, California

Norcal Mutual, San Francisco, California  6/05-6/06 (#705256)

Regional Federal Advocacy, Mid-Plains/West Region, ASPS, Washington D.C.

Chair, Membership Committee, American Professional Wound Care Association

Candidate for Membership American Society of Plastic Surgeons (#22143)

Candidate for Membership American Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons

USA Boxing,  Member Faculty (#2545248433)

Life Member International Biographical Association (Fellow #B006612)

American Professional Wound Care Association (Fellow)

Featured Physician Speaker, Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals

Featured Physician Speaker, KCI Corporation

Featured Physician Speaker, HealthPoint Corporation

Texas Boxing Commission

South Texas Local Boxing Commission

Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons

Council for Scientific Affairs Texas Medical Association

Texas Medical Association

Council for Health Services Texas Medical Association

Bexar County Medical Society

American College of Surgeons

American Medical Association (#30501960884)

American Society of General Surgeons

Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons

Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons

Kern County Medical Society

California Medical Association

American Association for the Advancement of Science (#00010036441)

SigmaXi-The Scientific Research Society (Associate Member: University of Pennsylvania)

National Medical Association (#DEV14473)

American Red Cross Disaster Action Team volunteer

Annual Scientific Meeting of The American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter,
Dana Point, California 1/97

Third Annual Surgical Review: Update in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Trauma,
Fairfield, California 9/97

Ninth Annual Surgical Basic Science Course, New Orleans, Louisiana 9/98

Carotid Occlusive Disease; Second Annual Max R. Gaspar Vascular Disease Symposium, Glendale, California 9/98

Laparoscopic Abdominal Solid Organ Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 11/98

Ninth Annual Fundamentals of Surgical Research Course, Seattle, Washington, 11/98

Thirty second Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Surgery, Seattle, Washington 11/98

Seventh International Meeting of The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, San Diego, California 12/98

85th Annual Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, California 10/99

California Medical Association Leadership Conference, La Quinta, California 11/99

American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter, Annual Scientific Meeting,
Huntington Beach, California 1/00

Advanced Laparoscopic Course, US Surgical Corporation, Connecticut, 9/00

Southeastern Surgical Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2/01

American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter, Annual Scientific Meeting,
Santa Barbara, California 1/02

Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee, 2/02

AO North America Craniofacial Symposium, Dallas, Texas, 1/03

The Aesthetic Meeting, ASAPS Course Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts, 5/03

Dallas Rhinoplasty Symposium, Dallas, Texas, 3/04

The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Houston, Texas 8/04

Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, Austin, Texas 9/04

Senior Resident’s Conference, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Houston, Texas 3/05

ASAPS, The Aesthetic Meeting, ASAPS Course Monitor, New Orleans, Louisiana 4/05

Surgeons’ Forum, Lifecell Corporation, New York City, New York 5/05

California Society of Plastic Surgeons, Sonoma, California 6/05

Advanced Wound Care Training Course, Paradigm Medical Management, Long Beach, California 7/05

National Speaker Training Meeting, Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, Coronado Bay, San Diego, California 9/05

Advanced Wound Care Training Course, Paradigm Medical Management, Long Beach, California 9/05

Plastic Surgery Review Course, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois 9/06

Complex Surgical Cases, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy, APWCA, Los Angeles, California 12/05

Wound Care Management and Hyperbaric Therapy, College of Oceaneering, Los Angeles, California 12/05

American Professional Wound Care Association, APWCA National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 4/06

Comprehensive Hyperbaric Oxygen Medical Training Course 4/06

Contour ThreadLift, Skills Transfer Course, Beverly Hills, California 5/06

California Society of Plastic Surgeons/Rocky Mountain Society of Plastic Surgeons, Mandalay Bay,
Las Vegas, Nevada 6/06

Osler Institute, Plastic Surgery Review Course, Chicago, Illinois 9/06

American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, The Aesthetic Meeting 2007, New York, New York 4/07

Utilization of a Neural Network System in the Assessment of Appendicitis:  Annual Scientific Meeting of The American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter, Dana Point, California 1/97

American Cancer Society, Reach to Recovery Basic Training for Breast Cancer, Bakersfield, California 7/97

American Cancer Society, Reach to Recovery Basic Training for Breast Cancer, Bakersfield, California 9/98

California Special Touch Breast Health Program; American Cancer Society, Bakersfield, California 10/98

Gastric Outlet Obstruction Secondary to Post Cholecystectomy Biloma:  Case Report and Review of the Literature:  Seventh International Meeting of The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, San Diego, California 12/98

Use of Perioperative Antibiotics in Perforated and Gangrenous Appendicitis: presented to the American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter, Huntington Beach, California 1/00

Is There A Correlation Between Selective Shunting and Back Bleeding During Carotid Endarterectomy, Southeastern Surgical Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana 2/01

The Value Of Concomitant Chemotherapy and Surgical Intervention for Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis, American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter, Santa Barbara, California 1/02

Acute Intermittent Porphyria Mimicking an Acute Abdomen, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

The Value of Concomitant Chemotherapy and Surgical Intervention for Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

Adult Wilms’ tumor:  a case report and review of the literature, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

Invasive Signet Ring Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix: Case Report and Literature Review, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

Granulomatous Pyelonephritis with Perinephric Abscess as a Presentation of Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis:  Case Report, Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02
Does Intraoperative Pathologic (Frozen) Specimen Change Operative Decision Making During a Thyroidectomy?  Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02

Cost Analysis of the Treatment of Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding In a County Hospital.  Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02

Is There a Correlation between Base Deficit and Swan Ganz Measurements in
Critically Ill Patients?  Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02

Utilization of the Neural Network for the Assessment of Negative Appendicitis Patients.  Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02

Pectoralis Major Muscle Rotational Flap Reconstruction after Claviculectomy:  Case Report. Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02

Chest Wall Reconstruction and Stabilization Using Latissimus Dorsi Muscle Rotational Flap and Free Rib Strut After Excision of Chest Wall Tumor:  Case Report.  Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02

Does The Initial Workup of Penetrating Wounds to the Abdomen Affect Operative versus Non-operative rate?  Kern Medical Center Research Forum, Bakersfield, California 5/02

Utilization of the Neural Network for the Assessment of Negative Appendicitis Patients.
J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, 6/03

Adult Facial Growth, Applications to Aesthetic Surgery.  2003 Annual Scientific Meeting, Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, San Antonio, Texas, 9/03

Risk of Pneumothorax in Routine Cosmetic Surgery; Case Report.  Accepted for Exhibition, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Vancouver, Canada 4/04

The Implantable Midface Glove, The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Houston, Texas 08/04

Eyebrow Restoration by the Single Follicle Implantation Method; A Ten Year Experience, Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, Austin, Texas 09/04

Increasing Mobility of the Abdominal Wall Through Selective Undermining, Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, Austin, Texas 09/04

Advances in Liposuction, Cosmetic Enhancement Expo, Los Angeles, California 11/04

Traumatic Ear Reconstruction Utilizing Medpor, Senior Residents’ Conference, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Houston, Texas 03/05

Sports Related Facial Injuries, USA Boxing Symposium, USA Olympic Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado 03/05

Cleft Palate Repair Utilizing Decellularized Dermis to Reduce Fistula Rate in Clefts Closed with Furlow Technique, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 04/05

Using Acellular Dermis as an Interpositional Graft in Gap Arthroplasty to Treat Post Traumatic TMJ Ankylosis, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, Sonoma, California 06/05

Increasing Mobility of the Abdominal Wall Through Selective Undermining Abdominoplasty and Suction Lipectomy, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, Sonoma, California 06/05

Safety in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Look and Feel Your Best Expo, Bakersfield, California 03/06

Negative Pressure Wound Therapy and Its Applications in Complex Wounds, APWCA National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 04/06

Oblique Submuscular Breast Augmentation, California Society of Plastic Surgeons/Rocky Mountain Society of Plastic Surgeons, Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada 06/06

Clinical Applications of Stem Cells, Graduate Course, NGS, National University of Singapore, Singapore 09/06

Advanced Surgical Wound Care, 27th Annual Los Angeles County Podiatric Medical Society, Los Angeles, California 02/07

Utilization of Porcine Matrix, Cook Medical Corporate Meeting, Austin, Texas 04/07

Blood 1991 Apr 1: 77(7) 1484-90 Idiotypic cross-reactivity of immunoglobulins expressed in Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and mantle zone lymphocytes of secondary B-cell follicles.

Dev, V., Shah, D., Gaw, F., Lefor, A. Gastric Outlet Obstruction Secondary to Post Cholecystectomy Biloma:  Case Report and Review of the Literature; JSLS (1998) 2:185-188

Shah, D., Dev, V., Brown, C. The Utilization of a Neural Network System in the Diagnosis of Appendicitis; MD Computing (1999) 16; 2:65-67

Dev, V., Heeringa, B., Busch, R. Tonsillar Lipoma; Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Dev, V., Heeringa, B., Shah D., Miller, G., Nystrom, M. Pseudoarthrosis of the Clavicle; Surgical Rounds

Dev, V., Heeringa, B., Shah, D., Taylor W., Abraham, J. Acute Intermittent Porphyria; Southeastern Surgical Congress

Dev, V., Shah, D., Cumming, J., Festekjian, J., Taylor, W. Efficacy of Postoperative Antibiotics in Perforated Appendicitis; American College of Surgeons, Southern California Chapter

Dev, V., Shah, D., Lefor, A. Serum Lysozyme Levels for the Detection of Intra-abdominal Abscesses

Dev, V., Shah, D., Sackier, J. Gastrointestinal Coccidioidomycosis immitis; Southeastern Surgical Congress

Dev, V. Contributing author Surgery on Call, Third Edition, Appleton & Lange

Shah, Dev, Brown “Case Report-Amyand’s Hernia;” Resident Surgeon

Shah, Dev, Gaw, Balderrama “Giant Cell Tumor-Case Report and Review of the Literature” Journal of Surgical Oncology

Shah, D., Dev, V., Chung, R.,  “Quantification of Fluid needed for diagnosis of Free Fluid in Trauma”

Dev, V., Shah, D., Miro, J.  Is There a Correlation between the Need to Shunt and Back Bleeding During Carotid Endarterectomy? Southeastern Surgical Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana 2/01

Dev, V., King, M., Glenn, J., Shah, D., The Value Of Concomitant Chemotherapy and Surgical Intervention for Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

Dev, V., King, M., Glenn, J., Shah, D., Invasive Signet Ring Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix:  Case Report and Literature Review, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

Dev, V., King, M., Glenn, J., Shah, D., Adult Wilms’ tumor: a case report and review of the literature, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

Dev, V., King, M., Glenn, J., Shah, D., Acute Intermittent Porphyria Mimicking An Acute Abdomen.  Southeastern Surgical Congress, Nashville, Tennessee 2/02

Dev, V., Levine, R., Garza, J.R., Wang, P.  Adult Facial Growth, Applications to Aesthetic Surgery.  Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal. 27; 265-286, 2003

Dev, V., Gupta A.  Anal Reconstruction,  Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, 2004

Lip Reduction, eMedicine, Plastic Surgery, www.emedicine.com, 2005

Helling, E., Dev, V., Garza, J., Wang, P.  Cleft Palate Repair Utilizing Decellularized Dermis to Reduce Fistula Rate in Clefts Closed with Furlow Technique, submitted Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 6/2005

Dev, V., Jaramillo, L., Wang, P.  Using Acellular Dermis as an Interpositional Graft in Gap Arthroplasty to Treat Post Traumatic TMJ Ankylosis, submitted Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 7/2005

Reconstructive Flap Review Manual, In progress

Lip Reduction, eMedicine, Plastic Surgery, www.emedicine.com, 2006

Wound Care Management,  Healthpoint, Ltd., San Antonio, Texas 4/05

VAC Therapy/Management, KCI, Inc., Pasadena, California, 4/05

Multi-disciplinary Advanced Wound Care Symposium, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (Chicago Medical School), Chicago, Illinois, 7/05

VAC Therapy/Management, KCI, Inc., Pasadena, California, 8/05

Physiology of Acute and Chronic Wound, Advanced Wound Care Training, Paradigm Medical Management, Long Beach, California, 9/05

VAC Therapy/Management, KCI, Inc., Manhattan Beach, California, 10/05

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Fresno, California, 10/05

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, San Jose, California, 11/05

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Bakersfield, California, 11/05

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, San Francisco, California, 11/05

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Long Beach, California, 12/05

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, La Jolla, California, 1/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Bakersfield, California, 3/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Sacramento, California, 4/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Fresno, California, 5/06

VAC Therapy/Management, KCI, Inc., Bakersfield, California, 6/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Medicine Group, Las Vegas, Nevada, 8/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Surgical Group, Las Vegas, Nevada, 8/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Merced, California, 8/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Bakersfield, California, 9/06

VAC Therapy/Management, KCI, Inc., Palm Springs, California, 10/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Reno, Nevada 12/06

Wyeth-Ayerst Visiting Speakers Bureau Program, Fresno, California 3/07

United States Olympic Committee, Member Faculty, Ringside Physician Symposium, USA Boxing,
Colorado Springs, Colorado, 3/05

U.S. National Championships Boxing, Team Physician, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 3/05

Physician Member, USA Boxing, 2005

Team Physician, San Antonio Rampage, American Hockey League, 2004-2005

Golden Gloves, Texas Regionals, Ringside Physician, 1/05

Texas State Boxing Title Fight, Golden Boy Productions, Ringside Physician, San Antonio, Texas, 2/05

Modified Chest Tube Thoracostomy Process and Kit (United States Patent and Trademark Office): Dev, V., Shah, D.

Right Lower Quadrant Insufflator (United States Patent and Trademark Office):  Shah, D., Dev, V.
Surgery Case Log Database Computer Application SURGERYNET(Trademark and Copyright):  Dev, V., Shah, D.

Virtual Surgery Computer Application (Trademark and Copyright):  Dev, V., Shah, D.,

Method of  Producing Stable Collagen Producing Mesenchymal Cells from Adult Adipose Stem Cells via Transfection, USPTO, Dev, V., Slattery, K.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Surgerynet.com: official launch 5/1/2000.  Website address www.surgerynet.com (website transferred to eresidency.net)

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, HealtheUniverse, Inc: Covina, California. 11/2002
Traded on the pink sheets, ticker symbol HLUN (HLUN.pk) Tax id#33-0972671

Chief Medical Officer/Director, California Institute of Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery, Newport Beach, California.  Bakersfield, California  6/2005, Fresno, California 12/2006 Tax id#59-3812907