July 16, 2013 Speaker: Viet N. Tran – Regional Manager, Public Affairs, Southern California Edison. Update on San Onofre nuclear power plant.

VIET N. TRAN is Region Manager, Southern California Edison (an Edison International Company) for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.  He previously served as SCE’s Region Manager for the Riverside County cities of Canyon Lake, Corona, Hemet, Lake Elsinore, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Perris, Riverside, San Jacinto, Temecula, Wildomar and the March Joint Powers Authority.

Prior to joining Edison, Viet worked for the City of Los Angeles as the West Los Angeles Area Director for Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn from 2001-2004 and as Deputy to LA Councilmember Ruth Galanter from 2000-2001.

For over two decades, Viet has been involved in Rotary International and was a member of the Hawthorne Rotary Club from 1999-2004, became one of the club’s youngest Paul Harris Fellows, served as Director of Youth Service and was appointed to a Rotary International Task Force by 2001-2002 Rotary International President Rick King.  In 2004, Viet was named the Hawthorne Club’s Rotarian of the Year.  Viet continued his Rotary service as the 2012-2013 President-Elect of the Rotary Club of Wildomar.

In 2006, Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge appointed Viet to the Riverside Human Relations Commission where he served on the Executive Committee until 2009.  From 2005 to 2006, Viet was appointed by the Mayor and City Council to serve as a Riverside Airport Commissioner.  Most recently he served on the Executive Committee of the Lake Elsinore Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and on the boards of the Southwest Riverside County Boys and Girls Club and the Southwest Economic Development Corporation.

The son of Vietnamese immigrants, Viet was born in Olympia, Washington, attended Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne, California and is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Public Administration.

Viet also enjoys learning new languages and is currently studying Italian hoping to add it to his fluency in Vietnamese and Spanish.

RESCHEDULED, date to be announced: Dr. William Brody – Salk Institute

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• M.D., Stanford University
• Irwin M. Jacobs Presidential Chair
• GOL D MEDAL, RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA, 2010

Dr. William R. Brody, President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, an acclaimed physician-scientist, entrepreneur, and university leader, joined the Salk Institute on March 2, 2009 after 12 years as president of The Johns Hopkins University. He is a national figure in efforts to encourage innovation and strengthen the U.S. economy through investments in basic research and education. Most recently, he has written and spoken extensively around the country to promote a fuller discussion of health care reform.

Renowned for his achievements in biomedical engineering, Dr. Brody has over 100 publications and two U.S. patents in the field of medical imaging, and has made contributions in medical acoustics, computed tomography, digital radiography, and magnetic resonance imaging. These contributions have led to his recognition by numerous national and international organizations. Dr. Brody is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American College of Radiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America for his contributions to medical imaging science.

A native of Stockton, California, Dr. Brody received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. and Ph.D., also in electrical engineering, from Stanford University. Following post-graduate training in cardiovascular surgery and radiology at Stanford, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Brody was associate professor and then professor of radiology and electrical engineering at Stanford University (1977-1986). He has been a co-founder of three medical device companies, and served as the president and chief executive officer of Resonex Inc. from 1984 to 1987.

Dr. Brody serves as a member of the Scientific Management Review Board of the National Institutes of Health and on the board of directors of IBM and Novartis. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University. He formerly served on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Science Board of the Food and Drug Administration, on the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a trustee of the Commonwealth Fund, the Whitaker Foundation, and the Minnesota Orchestra.

Dr. Brody is a private pilot holding airline transport pilot and flight instructor ratings. He and his wife, Wendy, have two grown children.