Island Practice

Pam Belluck, Staff Writer, The New York Times; Author, Island Practice

Belluck presents a spirited true story of a colorful, contrarian doctor on the world-famous yet idiosyncratic island of Nantucket. Dr. Timothy Lepore is surgeon, coroner, football team doctor, tick expert, unofficial psychologist, accidental homicide detective and occasional veterinarian. He has treated Jimmy Buffett, Chris Matthews, and Kennedy relatives, but makes house calls to a hermit in the forest and lets people pay in oatmeal raisin cookies. He carves scalpels from obsidian and tackles everything from "toe-tourniquet syndrome" to horses with Lyme disease. He espouses conservative views while performing abortions and giving patients marijuana cookies. Come learn about what his story has to teach us about today's health-care landscape, about the medical care we want, and about preserving individuality in a cookie-cutter world. Island Practice is being developed into a television series for CBS.

MLF: Health & Medicine
Location:  SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program, 7 p.m. book signing
Cost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Program Organizer: William Grant

Metabolic Wellness: Cracking Your Metabolic Code and Personalizing Your Health Choices to Create a Health-Style

James LaValle, R.Ph.; C.C.N.; N.M.D.; Cofounder, Living Longer Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy; Author, Cracking the Metabolic Code

Learn how you can assess the factors affecting your metabolism and what steps you can take to customize restoring your optimal metabolism. Each person’s metabolism is unique and influenced by lifestyle, diet, stress metabolism, genes, environmental influences and relationships.

MLF: Health & Medicine
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking, 6 p.m. program
Cost: $20 standard, $8 members
Program Organizers: Susan Downs and Bill Grant

Design Thinking with Yves Béhar and Tim Brown
 
Yves Béhar, Founder, fuseproject
Tim Brown, President and CEO, IDEO

Design is not just for house interiors or a tech gadget’s user interface. Design has come to infiltrate how great leaders think, collaborate and tackle the world’s smallest and greatest problems. The idea of design thinking, often credited to IDEO CEO Tim Brown, has transformed analytical thinking into creative yet practical problem solving. It is thinking outside the box come to life. Yves Béhar has leveraged his design ethos with a dedication to quality and a positive consumer-product relationship, and has led a number of diverse design projects like One Laptop Per Child and the NYC Condom, for that city's Department of Health. Join us as the wizards of design thinking Brown and Béhar dissect the formula for harmonizing industry, beauty, brand and meaning.

Location: SF Club Office 

Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 7:30 p.m. networking reception
Cost: Regular: $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students. Premium (reserved seating and premium reception. Limited to 65 guests): $50 standard, $35 members.
Also know: Photo by flickr user debs.

Clean Communities

Alex Mehran, CEO, Sunset Development
Carl Shannon, Managing Director, Tishman Speyer
Gabriel Metcalf, Executive Director, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Assocation

With Bay Area population forecast to increase to 8 or 9 million people, the region is grappling with where current and future residents will live and work. In San Francisco population density is rising in the trendy South of Market and Mission Bay areas, where housing is close to social media and other jobs. Commercial and residential real estate is thriving, including many new green buildings. But most of the region's 6 million residents don't live or work in an urban core. Infill and suburban development will both be needed to accommodate more people. The fact that buildings account for approximately 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions means future growth will have to be more efficient and smarter to meet state mandated goals for reducing carbon pollution. Are taller skyscrapers part of the answer? Can office parks really be green? A conversation about building the future of the Bay Area.
 

Tomorrowland

Jeffrey Heller, President, Heller Manus
Additional panelists TBA 

China's urbanization is creating new cities at a mind-boggling rate. Gleaming office towers are rising all over the country and massive amounts of land are being converted to residential and commercial uses. Is China growing in an energy- and carbon-smart fashion? What will be the hallmarks of these new metropolitan centers? How will they shape 21st century trends in architecture, land use and urban living?
 

Location:  SF Club Office
Time: 10:30 a.m. check-in, 11 a.m. first program, noon networking reception, 12:30 p.m. second program
Cost: $65 standard, $45 members, $20 students (with valid ID)

New Visions: Smart Choices – Western Water Security in a Changing Climate

Scott Miller, CEO, Resource Media
Kimery Wiltshire, CEO, Carpe Diem West

Western water managers, community leaders and decision makers are hungry for solutions as well as inspiration. As the climate warms and weather extremes become undeniable, policymakers at all levels are looking for no-regrets strategies and tactics to build resilience and durability into our current and future water-delivery systems. Miller and Wilshire, western states water experts, will discuss the report “New Visions – Western Water Security,” which highlights successful, actionable and economically sensible steps being taken now throughout the American West. Join us and share your insights, experiences, fears, concerns, success stories and predictions about water use and supply for western communities, agriculture, economies, cities and urban areas.

MLF: Environment & Natural Resources
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
Cost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Program Organizer: Ann Clark

Michael B. Eisen: Reinventing Scientific Communication

Michael B. Eisen, Ph.D; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Co-founder, Public Library of Science

The scientific literature is one of humanity’s greatest creations – a complete record of the ideas, experiments and discoveries of generations of researchers across the globe. While most of this corpus is now online, it remains as inaccessible to the public as it was centuries ago – with the physical limitations of print journals replaced by expensive publisher pay walls. Eisen, a leader in the movement to reinvent scientific communication, will discuss the origins of this absurd system, why it still exists, how the “open access” movement he helped to launch is finally bringing it to an end.     

MLF: Health & Medicine/Science & Technology
Location:  SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
Cost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Program Organizer: Chisako Ress and Kishore Hari

The Rising Tide of Elder Financial Exploitation

Jenefer Duane, Sr. Program Analyst, Office for Older Americans, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Helen Karr, Elder Abuse Special Assistant, San Francisco District Attorney's Office

Again and again, we hear stories in which older adults have been exploited by unfair, deceptive and abusive practices ­– Power of Attorney abuse, for example. Often these crimes are perpetrated by the victim’s own family, caregivers or another trusted individual. Our speakers will provide information on advances in combating the hidden epidemic of fraud and scams and other forms of exploitation that target that target older persons. They’ll address this pervasive issue in our society, providing tips on how to prevent, identify and report financial exploitation.

MLF: Grownups
Location:  SF Club Office
Time: 4:45 p.m. networking reception, 5:15 p.m. program
Cost: $20 standard, $8 members
Program Organizer: John W. Milford
Also know: In association with San Francisco Village

Magic Theatre Virgin Play Reading: “Madame Ho”

Eugenie Chan, Resident Playwright, New Dramatists; Artistic Associate, Cutting Ball Theater; Playwright, “Madame Ho”  

Come hear the very first reading of a new play and meet playwright Chan, who will hold a conversation after the reading. “Madame Ho” tells the story of a formidable woman in the Barbary Coast, a real-life 19th-century brothel madam, Chinese immigrant, wife and mother. The play explores the epic history of the Chinese-American West through a shape-shifting tale of one woman’s struggle to forge a life for herself and her daughter. 

Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
Cost: FREE, $12 donation suggested
Also know: Underwritten by The Bernard Osher Foundation

The Measure of Civilization

Ian Morris, Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History, Stanford University; Author, The Measure of Civilization

Using a groundbreaking numerical index that compares societies in different times and places, Morris breaks social development into four traits – energy capture per capita, organization, information technology and war-making capacity – and uses archaeological, historical and modern government data to quantify patterns. His conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate are influencing the ongoing scholarly debate.

MLF: Humanities
Location: SF Club Office
Time:  5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program, 7 p.m. book signing
Cost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Program Organizer: George Hammond

New Century Urban Development: Economics and the Environment

Claude Gruen, Ph.D., Principal Economist, Gruen Gruen + Associates, San Francisco

Highly respected national and international economist and consultant Gruen will describe policies that create incentives for environmentally sound land stewardship and encourage economic growth. His research and findings present a pivotal discussion on how we can help the environment while simultaneously growing our economy. The American Library Association's Choice cites his book New Urban Development: Looking Back to See Forward as a "must read for anyone with an interest in housing policy and the evolution of urban spatial structure in the United States." Join us in this lively discussion of the critically important changes to federal, state and local policies that could provide better and less expensive urban housing, desirable neighborhoods and thriving workplaces for the future of urban areas and environments.

MLF: Environment & Natural Resources
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program, 7 p.m. book signing
Cost: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Program Organizer: Ann Clark

Middle East Discussion Group

Make your voice heard in an enriching, provocative and fun discussion with fellow Club members as you weigh in on events shaping the face of the Middle East. Each month, the Middle East Member-Led Forum hosts an informal roundtable discussion on a topic frequently suggested by recent headlines.  After a brief introduction, the floor will be open for discussion. All interested members are encouraged to attend. There will also be a brief planning session.

MLF: Middle East
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. program
Cost: FREE
Program Organizer: Celia Menczel