| Meeting Date | Speaker and Subject |
|---|---|
| Tuesday Oct. 6th, 2009 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. | Hearing Assist Workshop at West Center for everyone |
| Oct. 7, 2009 | Chief Simon Davis, Green Valley Fire District |
| Nov. 4, 2009 | Colonel Greg Stroud, Command 162nd Fighter Wing Mission Presentation |
| Dec. 2, 2009 | Charles Field, U of A Metallurgical Engineering graduate
Operation Quickfix, an Urgent Declassified Secret Project |
| Thursday Dec. 31, 2009 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. | Hearing Assist Workshop at West Center for everyone |
| Jan. 6, 2010 | Dr. Yar Petryszyn Polar Bears of Churchill, Manitoba Canada |
| Feb. 3, 2010 | Rainer W. Gruessner, MD Organ Transplants |
| Mar. 3, 2010 | Dr. Joseph Mills The Diabetic Foot |
| Apr. 7, 2010 | Major General Donald Shepperd, USAF (Ret.) The Boiling Cauldron in the Mid-East |
| May 5, 2010 | Lieutenant Colonel Michael T. McGuire, The Predator Squadron at Davis-Monthan |
Chief Davis is the man in charge of your Fire District. Find out the latest scoop on the services and future of your Emergency Services, Fire Protection and scads of other services available to you.
Professional:
Chief Davis has worked in Green Valley since 1987 starting as an EMT Firefighter and working up the ranks and becoming District Fire Chief in 1996. In 2000, he was hired by the Green Valley Fire District Board to take the Fire District from a contract operation under Rural Metro Corporation to an independent operation overseen by a five member Board of Directors. This was accomplished in July of 2001 as Green Valley Fire District became its own independent operation. It’s now one of the top ten Fire Districts in the State, with one of the lowest tax rates of any large operational Fire District. Chief Davis has been a certified paramedic and Fire Instructor trainer as well as holding numerous other professional fire certifications.
Chief Davis has served as the Secretary for the Pima County Fire Chiefs Association as well as a member of both the Arizona and International Fire Chiefs Associations. He has been an Arizona Fire District Association board member since 2001 and serves as the Association Treasurer. The Association now represents 154 Fire Districts through the State
Personal:
Chief Davis was born in southwest England and at an early age moved (with his parents) to the country of Zambia, Southern Africa where his father worked in purchasing for copper and gold mining. He lived in Southern Africa until 1981 and then came to Tucson to attend the U of A as a mining engineer. While attending the University and moonlighting in construction, Chief Davis started volunteering as a firefighter for Rural Metro and found the perfect career. He has been a certified rescue diver and dive instructor as well. Chief Davis resides in Green Valley with his wife of 24 years, Shirlei.
Colonel Stroud will discuss the the Mission Statement of the 162nd Fighter Wing located in Tucson. This is an exciting big business, year around, for our area.
Charles Field attended the University of Arizona studying anthropology, geology, civil engineering and graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Metallurgical Engineering.
During his career he specialized in the metal titanium and the aerospace industry.
He worked for Titanium Metals Corporation in their research department near Las Vegas for two years.
He was given the opportunity to join the Technical Service Group at their headquarters in New York City. For the next several years he was seldom home as the need for titanium technical knowledge was in great demand.
Organization needing information and help included all the aircraft and jet engine companies, missile manufactures, dozens of forgers and fabricators and most important the various agencies of the Department of Defense as well as NASA.
Many failures, some catastrophic as well as sudden new developments were a normal routine. Have bag in office was a fact of life.
Programs included, all advanced military aircraft, including the famous SR-71, deep diving submergence programs, numerous weapon systems including all missile systems and NASA's Gemini and Apollo.
Charles later worked at General Electric's Large Jet Engine Div, at Cincinnati, Ohio coordinating advanced materials research and development programs, primarily with the AF, Navy and NASA.
Later he joined the Garrett Corp., now Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix in their advanced technology group doing much the same as when with GE.
He and his wife moved to Green Valley in 2002 from Scottsdale, AZ where they had lived for thirty years.
Dr. Yar Petryszyn, retired June 30th, 2007 as professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the U of A, without any doubt, gets our vote as our most popular speaker in the last 10 years. He has talked to us about his journey to the North Pole on a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker, the Natural History of East Africa, the Galapagos, Antarctica and, most recently, about his visit to the Amazon. Last year, he was too busy to fit us into his schedule.
He is back with his first digital presentation to talk about the Polar Bears of Churchill, Manitoba Canada.
We already know that Yar will once again run out of time. If you haven't heard him, hold your coffee to one cup because you won't want to miss one word of what he has to say.
Dr. Rainer Gruessner, a nationally renowned abdominal transplant surgeon, joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine and University Medical Center in July 2007.
Dr. Gruessner came to the UA fro the University of Minnesota, where he was professor of General and Transplant Surgery, vice-chief of the Division of Transplantation, and vice-chairman of the Department of Surgery. Previously, he served as professor and head of the Department of General and Transplant Surgery at the University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.
Dr. Gruessner completed his medical degree and residency at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany. He received the German equivalent of a PhD (Habilitatio) at the Philipps Universität in Marburg, Germany. Dr. Gruessner completed a fellowship in transplantation at the University of Minnesota. He received additional training in vascular surgery at the Philipps Universität and in Living Donor Liver Transplantation at the Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
Among his accomplishments, Dr. Gruessner developed the first standardized technique for living donor intestinal transplantation, now performed at leading transplant institutions. He also performed the first laparoscopic simultaneous kidney and partial pancreas transplant from a living donor and was one of the first surgeons to perform simultaneous liver and intestinal transplant from a living donor. In addition to transplantation, Dr. Gruessner’s major clinical interests include pancreatic and liver resections and minimal invasive procedures in general surgery.
His research interests include pancreas islet and kidney transplantation for the treatment of diabetes, minimally invasive surgery, including robotics, surgical options for patients with end-stage liver, pancreas, kidney and intestinal failure, donor-specific cell augmentation, and impact of refined surgical techniques on length and cost of hospitalization.
He has published two textbooks on organ transplantation, more than 50 book chapters and almost 300 articles. He serves on the editorial boards of Clinical Transplantation, International Transplantation, Graft, and Journal of Investigative Surgery. He is a member of 15 national and international societies and serves in multiple functions for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
Dr. Armstrong has to go to Saudi Arabia so vascular surgeon Dr. Joseph Mills will speak instead. He will speak on the same topic (Dr. Mills and Dr. Armstrong are co-directors of the diabetic wound center SALSA). Both have become renowned in their practice of combining vascular surgery and podiatry to prevent amputations.
Dr. Armstrong is Professor of Surgery (with Tenure) at The University of Arizona and director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance also known as SALSA. Dr. Armstrong also holds a Masters of Science in Tissue Repair and Wound Healing from the University of Wales College of Medicine and a PhD from the University of Manchester College of Medicine, where he was appointed Visiting Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Armstrong has produced more than 250 peer-reviewed research papers in more than two dozen scholarly medical journals as well as over two dozen book chapters and is co-Editor of the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot.
Dr. Armstrong was selected as one of the first six International Wound Care Ambassadors and is the recipient of numerous awards by national and international medical organizations including the inaugural Georgetown Distinguished Award for Diabetic Limb Salvage. In 2008, he was the 25th and youngest-ever member elected into the Podiatric Medicine Hall of Fame.
Dr. Armstrong is current Chair of Scientific Sessions for the ADA's Foot Care Council, and a past member of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association as well as an active commissioner with the Illinois State Diabetes Commission. He sits on the Infectious Disease Society of America's Diabetic Foot Infection Advisory Committee. Dr. Armstrong is the founder and co-chair of the International Diabetic Foot Conference (DF-Con), the largest annual international symposium on the diabetic foot in the world.
Major General Donald Shepperd, USAF (Retired), Former Commander of the Air National Guard and frequent consultant to CNN News on military issues. He is back by popular demand. This year's talk will give his perspective on global issues focusing on the Mid-East and it's implicagions for U.S. policies. He has been very well received the last two times he has spoken and has written two books. One, “Bury Us Upside Down,” was up for a Pulitzer Prize.
Lieutenant Colonel Michael T. McGuire last served as the One Hundred Forty Eighth Fighter Squadron Commander, Arizona Air National Guard. He was responsible for training pilots from the United Arab Emirates, Air National Guard, and the U.S. Air Force in the F-16E fighter aircraft. Lt Col McGuire was raised in Arcadia, California. He earned his commission from the United States Air Force Academy in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. He attended undergraduate pilot training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, followed by several operational, combat and training assignments in the F-16. He joined the Arizona Air National Guard in 2001. Lt Col McGuire is a command pilot with more than 3,800 flying hours.
West Center has a number of options to improve your listening experience.
It has a Induction Loop system installed.
If you have:
NOTE:
New hearing aides have two "T-Loop" options.
With these new hearing aides the Induction-Loop option must be programmed and turned on as above. The phone option will not help you!
If your hearing aide does NOT support the Induction-Loop option, you have two more options.
During these two special sessions for 260 club members, all of the hearing assist systems will be explained and demonstrated
attendees will be able to: