“In the Blood” Author Interviews Two Visionaries Who Changed Medical History
The author and inventors will sign books following the program.
Friday, June 23
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Join author Charles Barber for a fascinating interview with the inventors of the revolutionary clotting agent QuikClot Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong, as well as a book signing and celebration of the publication of Barber’s new book In the Blood.
NEW BOOK TELLS FULL STORY OF A LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL MIRACLE THAT CHANGED BATTLEFIELD AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOREVER
The “high-stakes” true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once‑in‑a‑generation lifesaving product: “Suspenseful storytelling helps us see and feel the struggle and frustration, the sweat and tears . . . Inspiring” (Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road).
Pre-order your hardcover edition of In the Blood using the checkout below and receive a signed copy during the book signing, following the author chat and interview with the inventors of QuikClot!
Pre-purchase of a book includes admission to the interview event. Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come basis. If the planetarium is full, overflow seating will be available in the Hirsh Auditorium.
"For hundreds of years, the mystery of how to stop uncontrolled hemorrhaging could not be solved.
At the end of the last century, fifty thousand Americans a year bled to death from traumatic injuries in hospitals, in traffic accidents, and as a result of gun violence. The problem of “bleeding out” was also one of the military’s top concerns on the battlefield.
Today, thanks to a clotting agent discovered by a brilliant, but obscure inventor in the early 1980s and brought to market by his visionary salesman partner twenty years later, thousands of lives have been saved in combat, and on the streets."