Upcoming Assemblies

• Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 11:00 AM

  Bankers Hill Clubhouse

  June 2019 Assembly

  

  In November of 2015, epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of severe food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been medevaced to the UCSD Medical Center, where both he and Steffanie were on staff, blood work revealed that Tom was fighting one of the most dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the world.

  As Tom became comatose and ever-closer to death, Strathdee combed through research old and new and came across phage therapy: the idea that the right virus, aka "the perfect predator," can kill even the most lethal bacteria. Time running out, Strathdee appealed to phage researchers all over the world for help and together they resurrected a forgotten cure, and saved Tom. Tom had several near death experiences that he recalls in interludes in their memoir.

  After their talk at the Assembly, they will be selling and signing their nail-biter of a book, “The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug.”

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• Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 11:00 AM

  Bankers Hill Club

  July 2019 Assembly

  

  SITREP - Drones Edition

  The world around us is changing. Drones and robots aren't just coming, they are here now, and San Diego is the nexus for the next generation of our national defenses. Gordon Permann, aviation historian extraordinaire and recurring Assembly speaker will give us our own 2019 "SITREP."

  We meet at wheelchair-accessible Bankers Hill Clubhouse at 3030 Front St. Note that this segment of Front Street is accessed from 1st Street and W Palm Avenue (near the bridge). The clubhouse is the building at the summit of a gently sloping parking lot.

  Childcare is free for children 1.5 years and up. Stay afterward for coffee and snacks.

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