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Backstage Pass Tour: Venturing Out to Calit2

May 3, 2012, 8:45am - 1:30pm

Our day starts at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) on the UC Irvine campus. The building and its various labs support a variety of research and is home to start-up operations, including Hiperwall.com, our first visit on the tour. We'll learn how they got started, and hear from the team at CritWalls.com about how they turned their Business Plan Competition win into an ongoing venture. Just for fun, we'll view firsthand the difference an electron microscope can make before we sit down to relax and view the feature length documentary, Something Ventured, about the VCs and visionaries who together imagined and supported the rise of the Silicon Valley. Following the movie, we'll wrap up the day with lunch and a group discussion with this year's Business Plan Competition winners.
 

Backstage Pass to UCI Medical: Stimulating Simulations and Diagnostic Tools

April 5, 2012, 8:45am - 2pm

UC Irvine Campus – meeting place details to be sent to attendees
 
We’ll visit the Simulation Center at the Medical Education Building where we’ll see firsthand how super-high tech mannequins are nearly alive with processors, programmed to simulate everything from a heart attack to a brain aneurism. 
We’ll also explore The Virtual Dementia Tour®, a Dementia simulation tool kit created for anyone seeking to understand the physical and mental challenges of those with Dementia. It is a scientifically proven method designed to build sensitivity and awareness in individuals caring for those with Dementia. The UC Irvine Program in Geriatrics will provide this training combined with a discussion by Bonnie Olsen, PhD, psychologist, and specialist in dementia to better understand the care and treatment of patients with dementia.
 
 

Members Salon: Medical Mavericks Attack Healthcare Education

February 29, 2012, 4pm - 6pm (NOTE DATE CHANGE)
Newport Beach Home of Shirley Pepys -- address to be sent to attendees
 

Some futurists claim a child born today may live to be 200+ years old and live in a world of fully replaceable body parts. Is that realistic, and what would that economic and social world look like? We'll hear from UC Irvine School of Medicine Dean Ralph Clayman who will begin by telling us how he and his colleagues are revolutionizing the way medicine is taught, from digital wireless platforms such as the iPad to high tech, high touch diagnostic equipment that mimics symptoms, reactions and results. Following a member Q&A session, Dean Clayman will join us in a discussion about participatory, proactive, predictive, personalized medicine, and what are the costs and what are the advantages of continuing to develop these advancements.   Hear Dean Clayman’s thoughts and contribute your own on what may be best for the future of society.
 
  

Backstage Pass to San Quentin: Changemakers in the System

Feb. 1, 2012, 8am - 8:00pm 

Prosperitas members will be taken behind the gates at San Quentin prison for a private walking tour that will include topics ranging from an overview of prison history to conversations with prisoners, including some on death row. We will visit the lower yard and get to see first hand the ethnic breakup of the social groups, the newspaper, housing units, meal services, where we’ll see the remarkable murals painted by a one-time convicted heroin dealer and successful artist.

Following the tour of the prison, we will travel to the Delancey Street Restaurant in San Francisco for lunch, where former San Quentin Warden and current executive director of Death Penalty Focus Jeanne Woodford will discuss the movement to eliminate of the death penalty in California with a local opponent of the plan (this speaker not confirmed at press). The day will conclude with a tour of the Delancey Street, the country's leading residential self-help organization that has transformed the lives of substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom through a successful work program at no cost to the taxpayers.

 

Members Salon Discussion: Crime and Punishment in California

January 12, 2012, 4pm-6pm

Newport Beach Home of Renee Pepys Lowe

Criminal justice realignment, a controversial new policy enacted via the Budget Act of 2011, is intended to make changes to California's correctional system "to stop the costly, ineffective and unsafe 'revolving door' of lower-level offenders and parole violators through our state prisons.” How is this playing out in the real world?  Along with the Dean of the School of Social Ecology, Val Jenness, UCI Professor of Criminology Susan Turner will join us to give an overview of the issue, to better prepare us for our upcoming visit to San Quentin prison. Learn more about Professor Turner here.


 

 Backstage Pass to Mojave Spaceport:  Innovators of Private Space Travel

Dec. 1, 2011, 8am-7:30pm

Prosperitas members joining now will be included in a private tour of the Mojave Air & Spaceport to meet visionary general manager Stuart Witt, a leader in incubating the private space travel industry. Members will meet the passionate founders of start-ups and leaders in the industry, including a presentation from Virgin Galactic and lunch with Voyager Aviator Dick Rutan. Day concludes with private chef-arranged wine tasting and heavy appetizers on the ride back. Travel “edutainment” includes history of the space industry with UC Irvine Merage School lecturer Greg Autry, plus insights on astronomy from UC Irvine Professor James Bullock.

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