Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:20:08 -0700 From: Jonathan Parfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: very special meeting - PSR-LA - UCLA - FRONTLINE account of Army surgeon in Iraq - July 25
The Global Security Seminar is pleased to announce its July speaker, Col. Vito Imbascini, Ph.D., MD addressing the challenges of being a physician on the frontlines in Iraq. Where: UCLA Faculty Center When: TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2006 Time: 6:30 PM You are invited to a DINNER MEETING of THE GLOBAL SECURITY SEMINAR featuring a presentation by Col. Vito Imbascini, Ph.D., MD., entitled The Iraq War from the Perspective of a Frontline Physician. SEMINAR TOPIC: The Iraq War from the Perspective of a Frontline Physician is a glimpse into the experience of the modern battlefield -- with its hostile physical environment, IEDs and asymmetrical warfare -- on the (mostly) young men and women of America who chose to fight it. It is a photographic essay that illuminates the transition from civilian to military life, and the exigencies of living, fighting and caring for soldiers, local civilians and detainees in the present conflict in Iraq. In the process, you will learn specifically how the military delivers advanced medical care in a combat zone with no clear front lines, and how some of the larger political issues related to this war/insurgency/nation-building enterprise filter down to individuals who daily have to make life-or-death decisions. THE SPEAKER: Col. Vito Imbasciani, PhD MD FACS. A Yale-trained genito-urinary surgeon practicing here in Los Angeles, he is the Director of Government Relations for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and is on their Board of Directors. He is a Colonel in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, and the present State Surgeon of the California National Guard. A veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, he has served in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, and is scheduled for re-deployment to Langstuhl Army Hospital, Germany in September, 2006. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Imbasciani is a former professor of music history at Middlebury College, Vermont, who earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University. A Fulbright Fellowship to the Vatican Archives allowed him to study the golden age of coexistence between the three major religions in 15th-century Spain. SEMINAR LOCATION AND RESERVATIONS: The seminar location is the UCLA Faculty Center. Dinner will be served at a cost of $25 WITHOUT DESSERT per person OR $29 WITH DESSERT. THE DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS IS 11:00 AM, JULY 24, 2006. PLEASE BRING YOUR CHECK PAYABLE TO MICHAEL INTRILIGATOR, your UCLA host. Please submit your reservation and your choice of dessert/no dessert by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Obtain permit for Parking Structure 2, near the Faculty Center, at the kiosk at Hilgard and Westholme, noting that you are attending the Global Security Seminar at the Faculty Center. Parking fee is $8.) SEMINAR SPONSORS THE GLOBAL SECURITY SEMINAR organizes monthly meetings presenting the views of experts on current global security issues. It is sponsored by the Los Angeles offices of the Center for Defense Information and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The Seminar coordinators are: Philip Coyle (Los Angeles Director of the Center for Defense Information and former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration). Michael Intriligator (Professor of Economics, Political Science and Policy Studies, UCLA and former Director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations). Jonathan Parfrey (Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles). Bennett Ramberg (Vice Chairman of the Center for Government and Public Policy Analysis). Dr. Ramberg serves as the Seminar Coordinator. Recent Seminar speakers have included: Hon. Philip Coyle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Dr. Martha Krebs, Former Assistant Secretary of Energy. Cuba Biotechnology or Bioweapons? A First Hand Trip Report, November 2002. Brian Jenkins, Senior Advisor to the President of the Rand Corp. Countering Al Qaeda: Elements of Strategy, December 2002. Mike Shuster, Diplomatic Correspondent for National Public Radio. Iraq and North Korea: First Test of the Bush Administrations National Security Policy, January 2003. Tom Plate, International Syndicated Columnist based at UCLA. Global Security from the Perspective of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Ideas and Impressions, February 2003. S. David Freeman, Chairman of the State of Californias Consumer Power and Conservation Authority. Energy and Security America's Energy Policy in the Aftermath with War With Iraq. March 2003. Gregory Treverton, Senior Research Staff the Rand Corp. Organizing the Intelligence of Homeland Security, April 2003. Jean Rosenfeld, Senior Research Associate, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion. The Religion Factor in an Apocalyptic Age Implications for the Middle East, May 2003. Richard Baum, Professor of Political Science and Chinese Studies, UCLA. Chinese Security in the Post 9/11 World and Implications for the United States, June 2003. Jonathan Parfrey, Director, Los Angeles Physicians for Social Responsibility, The State of the American Peace Movement, July 2003. Zvi Vapni, Deputy Consul General in the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles, The Future of the Arab-Israeli Road Map to Peace, September 2003. Raju Thomas, Professor of Political Science, Marquette University, The Most Dangerous Place in the World Indo-Pakistani Relations and the Risk of Nuclear War, October 2003. David Rapoport, Professor of Political Science, UCLA, The Four Waves of Modern Revolutionary Terror A Generational Analysis, November 2003. Michael Keane, Commentator and Author, Guerrilla Warfare An Historical Perspective on How It May Defeat the United States in Iraq, December 2003. Rachel Stohl, Senior Policy Analyst Center for Defense Information, Washington D.C., Child Combatants A Non Traditional Threat to U.S. Security, January 2004. Richard Hrair Dekmejian, Professor of Political Science at USC and International Business at the Marshall School, Challenges for Democratization in the Middle East, February 2004. Norman Levin, Senior Research Staff, the RAND Corp., U.S. Policy Toward North Korea Challenges and Prospects, March 2004. Wayne Glass, former foreign policy and national security staff member of the Departments of State, Defense and the U.S. Senate, National Security, Foreign Policy, and the Congress: How Things Work (or Dont), April 2004. Ramiro Cibrian, Diplomat, European Community, The Enlarged Europe and its Common Security and Defense Policy. Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Islam and the West; Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy, June 2004. Nake Kamrany, Professor of Economics, USC, The Current Dilemma of Afghanistan, July 2004. Jack Weiss, Los Angeles City Councilman, Local Homeland Security: The City of Los Angeles Confronts Counter-Terrorism Challenges, September 2004. Ian Lesser, Vice President of the Pacific Council on International Security, Foreign and Security Challenges Confronting the Next President, October 2004 Greg Mello, Co-Founder of the Los Alamos Study Group, Bushs Second Term--New Nuclear Weapons: Absurd and Dangerous, or a Management Necessity, November 2004. Pierre Larrieu, French Consul General, Franco-American Relations After the U.S. Presidential Elections, December 2004. Philip Coyle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense now with Center for Defense Information, Car Bombs, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Mini-Nukes, and Terrorism: Where is America Going on Homeland Security and National Defense? January 2005. Jeremy Azrael, the RAND Corp., Effects of Increasing Russian Authoritarianism on Russian-American Relations, February 2005. Paul Holtom, MD, Professor, University of Southern California Medical School, Sanctions, Embargos and War: The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Civilians, March 2005. Arnold C. Harberger, Professor of Economics, UCLA, Challenges of Economic Growth in Developing Countries, April 2005. Alison Renteln, Professor of Political Science, USC, Prosecuting Genocide Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Aggression: Assessing the Performance of the International Criminal Court, May, 2005. James McWilliams, Professor of Earth Sciences, UCLA & Member National Academy of Sciences Panel on Global Warming, Global Climate Change and the Prospects for Planetary Management, June 2005. Michael Intriligator, UCLA Professor of Economics, Political Science and Public Policy, Terrorist Use of WMD, July 2005. Aaron Glantz, International Journalist, Pacifica Radio, How America Lost Iraq, September, 2005. David Aaron, RAND Corporation, Promoting Democracy With Justice in a Fractured World: Is America Up to the Challenge, October, 2005. Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times national reporter, The 9/11 Hijackers: Who Were They and Why They Did It, November 2005. George Quester, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Justifying Preemption and Preventive War in the Post 9/11 Era: What History Can Teach Us, December 2005. David Goodstein, Vice Provost and Professor of Physics, Caltech, Is the World Running Out of Oil, January 2006. Sebastian Zacharia, former Director, Division of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Program, The United Nations: Address the Globes 21st Century Challenges, February 2006. Neil Joeck, Livermore Laboratory and former Bush Administration White House Counterproliferation Strategy Director, Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Trade: Implications for the Indo-US Agreement for Proliferation, March 2006. Bennett Ramberg, Center for Government and Public Policy Analysiss, Combating Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century, April 2005. Peter Katona, UCLA School of Medicine, Bird Flu--Global Pandemic or Manageable Risk, May 2006 Kent Harrington, former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency, Chinese Organized Crime: Redefining the Threat and Recognizing the Reality, June 2006. Jonathan Parfrey Executive Director | Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles 617 South Olive Street, Suite 810 | Los Angeles, California 90014-1629 (213) 689-9170 x107 | (213) 689-9199 fax | (310) 261-0832 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.psrla.org ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. 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