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congratulate Gene M. Bernstein, John F. Collins, Donald M. Eversoll, Dr. Max
Gomez, Dr. Andrew A. Jacono, M.D., Howard S. Maier, Dr. Scott Rankin, M.D., and
Dr. Samuel Stanley. Not only are these recipients well established in their professional lives but they truly embrace a sense of community and the desire to serve Long
Island and beyond.
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NETWORKING® MAGAZINE’S DAVID AWARD HONOREE. JANUARY 17, 2013
GENE M. BERNSTEIN, Ph.D
Chairman
Northville Industries Corp.
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n educator, investor and avid golfer who
actively promotes the sport, Gene Bernstein has long been a major contributor to
the family business, Northville Industries, a subsidiary of NIC Holding Corp. Since joining the
company in 1982, he has held various positions, including Vice President, Executive Vice President,
President and Vice Chairman. Since 2003, he has
been overseeing the Long Island marketing business, as well as family real estate interests. Bernstein is part of the third generation to run the
privately held business; his brother Jay is Chairman and CEO of the holding company.
Based in Melville, Northville operates a terminal
complex and a wholesale business supplying heating oil to home delivery companies, and gasoline
and diesel fuel to independent gas stations. The
company’s bioheat and biodiesel provide customers with cleaner burning products, and
Northville sells E85 gasoline for flex-fuel vehicles
to reduce tailpipe emissions and engine heat.
“We moved the company into bioheat, biodiesel
and now into compressed natural gas (CNG), all
basically cleaner burning than conventional petroleum products,” says Bernstein. “The move into
compressed natural gas for fleets is really exciting
for Northville because CNG costs considerably less
than diesel or gasoline; it’s domestically produced;
it’s abundant, and it reduces our dependence on
petroleum.”
In 1917, Bernstein’s grandfather Samuel began a
coal and ice delivery firm on the East Side of
Manhattan. In 1956, Sam’s sons, Raymond and
Bernstein’s father Harold, migrated the company
into petroleum and onto Long Island, building a
terminal in Riverhead’s Northville section. The
firm grew to be the largest U.S. importer of gasoline in the ’90s and the fourth biggest importer of
heating oil. The move to CNG is a similar move
by the third generation to stay ahead of the
curve.
After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in English
Literature from Alfred University (Alfred, New
York), Bernstein went on to earn a Master’s from
the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and a
Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts
(Amherst), also in English Literature. He began
his career teaching English Lit as an Assistant
Professor at the University of Arizona, and went
on to teach at the University of Notre Dame. But
in 1982, he came back to join the family business.
“The company was getting bigger,” says Bernstein. “It had expanded and diversified and had
become a lot more attractive and exciting” than
when he left for college in 1965.
Bernstein notes that Northville also developed
a business in Panama, building a pipeline to
bring Alaskan crude oil from the Pacific Ocean
across the isthmus to the Caribbean for East
Coast delivery. In 1984, the company began its
retail gas business, opening Northville gas stations on Long Island and Westchester, as well as
expanding its commodity trading and blending business
and adding more storage at a Linden, New Jersey, facility.
With his enthusiasm for golf, along with that of his father
and brother, Bernstein helped co-found the Northville Invitational Golf Classic in the mid-1980s. After its successful
first year, the Northville Classic was asked to join the Senior
PGA Tour and become an official stop on the Tour, known
as the Northville Long Island Classic, which the company
sponsored for 18 years.
The tournament’s success also brought Bernstein, who
served as General Chairman, a prestigious Ernst & Young
Award for Social Responsibility. Bestowed for Bernstein’s
entrepreneurship, the award recognized the tournament developer’s promotion of Long Island through media broadcasts, advertisements and ability to attract business. Most
important, over the course of its life, the tournament raised
nearly $4 million for Schneider’s Children’s Hospital, the
forerunner of Cohen Children’s Medical Center located on
the Long Island Jewish Medical Center campus in New
Hyde Park.
Bernstein has been a member of the Metropolitan Golf
Association Foundation Board since 2002, and is currently
MGA President. He also serves on the board of The First Tee
of Metropolitan New York, while holding memberships at
Long Island’s Sebonack Golf Club and Meadow Brook
Club.
Despite his busy schedule, Bernstein always finds time to
devote to the Long Island community and its various nonprofit organizations. He serves as Treasurer of the Institute
for Student Achievement, which helps provide the tools for
traditionally underserved and underperforming high
school students to graduate and prepare for success in college. A member of the President’s Advisory Board of the
National Center for Disability Services, Bernstein recalls
that he took his daughters to a Celebrity Sports Night and
“was taken with the place and decided to get involved.”
Consistent with his business acumen, Bernstein serves on
the Board of the Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition,
located at the Advanced Energy, Research and Technology
Center at Stony Brook University. Bernstein says this regional chapter of the Department of Energy “promotes
cleaner fuels such as compressed natural gas and E85 gasoline, as well as alternative fuel vehicles. Compressed natural gas is particularly geared for fleets.” He adds, “Clean
Cities takes proven research and brings it to market in order
to get more companies and fleets to convert to cleaner
fuels.”
Since 1986, he has served as a member of the Alfred University Board of Trustees and was its Chairperson from
1995-2001. During the school’s last capital campaign, he
started a scholarship fund. Current board service also includes the Nassau County Police Department Foundation,
Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Energeia Partnership and the Long Island Association. Over
the years, he has been a member of the New York State
Business Council, Friends of the Arts and several investment boards.
Bernstein is also the recipient of numerous awards and
honors, including the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award
and Small Business Advocate of the Year, both bestowed by
the Long Island Association; an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Alfred University; the Long Island State
Parks Foundation Distinguished Service Award; the Alliance of Sales and Marketing Executives’ William Olsten
Hall of Fame Award; Metropolitan Golf Writers Association’s Bing Crosby Sponsor’s Award, and the Metropolitan
Energy Council’s Man of the Year.
A Manhattan resident, Bernstein has two daughters, Jennifer Bernstein and Mindy Feinberg (son-in-law Marc) and
two grandchildren. In addition to golf, he plays squash, is a
devoted theater goer, and enjoys reading and traveling. ■
JOHN F. COLLINS
President, CEO
Winthrop-University Hospital
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healthcare.” He moved up to Executive Vice President and was appointed President and CEO in
2009. Over the past three years, he has worked to
bring the hospital to full service by following the
model he had observed in Manhattan.
“It starts with a dream,” remarks Collins. “If you
want to be a serious academic medical center, you
need to have all the comprehensive programs an
academic medical center would offer.” Under
Collins’ leadership, Winthrop added departments
of psychiatry and podiatry, and hired a full-time
urology chairman. In addition, the hospital added
a dental department, and will soon open a dental
clinic.
“Winthrop always had a great clinical reputation,” says Collins. “We now have a new transcatheter aortic value replacement program and a
top endoscopic physician. As physicians see what’s
happening here, they are gravitating to Winthrop.”
Additionally, Collins has overseen the acquisition
of 24 practices, involving over 115 physicians and
40 physical locations from Shelter Island to Glendale, Queens. These practices deliver care to over
2,000 additional patients every day.
Collins says the current healthcare debate points
to a looming physician shortage, pressure to reduce spending, and the formation of accountable
care organizations—a throwback to the thinking
that a day will come when hospitals are empty because primary care doctors are not referring patients to specialists anymore. “But with baby
boomers flocking to the Medicare roles at the rate
he path to the Presidency of Winthrop-University Hospital had an unlikely start for
John Collins. He was not a business administration major; instead, this Queens, NY, native
earned an Associate’s degree from Queensboro
Community College and a Bachelor’s from
Queens College, both in accounting, and completed his apprenticeship and preparation for the
CPA exam at Pannell Kerr Forster public accounting firm in Manhattan. His assignments included
audits of some of the big social and professional
clubs like The Harvard Club, nonprofit organizations, nursing homes and hospitals like Mt. Sinai,
Memorial Sloan Kettering, St. Vincent’s, Beth Israel and St. Luke’s.
Collins always considered himself creative and
thoughtful—not the classic accountant who practices a finite science. Influenced in those early
years by seeing clinicians in their white coats, resident physicians, and nurses in white uniforms, he
realized, “Medicine is so complex that you can
never be bored. It will never cease to amaze you in
terms of what you can continue to learn.”
Following his tenure as Director of Finance at
South Nassau Communities Hospital, Collins
began an illustrious and productive career at
Winthrop-University Hospital. He joined the staff
in 1997 as Vice President and CFO. In 2007, he was
promoted to Chief Operating Officer, when, he
says, “I started getting involved in clinical committees, reviewing day-to-day individual cases,
and getting to the fundamental questions of
of 10,000 a day, and the politicians kicking the can down the
road for the past 20 years ignoring the aging population and
the epidemic of diabetes and obesity,” Collins remarks,
“there’s going to be no shortage of patients going forward,
regardless of changes to the financing of healthcare reform.”
He adds, “Even with all the urgent care centers that are popping up around the region, my ER continues to grow by
leaps and bounds. That’s why a hospital needs to continually build and grow. And even at that, hospital crowding
will still occur.”
Another aspect of an advanced academic medical center is
research. While Winthrop has long had a research program,
Collins says the hospital is concentrating its efforts on diabetes and obesity, reflecting the aging population and dire
statistics showing that of the babies born today, one in three
will have diabetes by 2020.
“We’re not interested in busy work; we’re interested in a
cure,” states Collins. And to that end, Winthrop announced
that it is embarking on a plan to consolidate its research programs and build a new 95,000-square-foot Research Institute
on its Mineola campus. The hospital currently has a staff of
about 63 full-time scientists, PhDs and people who are involved in clinical trials and NIH grants, and provides an annual subsidy of about $5 to 6 million. The Institute will
provide core laboratories and a clinical trial center for the research team. To accommodate its medical student population from Stony Brook School of Medicine, it will include a
large lecture hall, a simulation lab, and training rooms
where students will learn from Winthrop’s physician-teachers. The Institute’s design places its adult and pediatric endocrine divisions on the same floor, and includes an
in-patient care area.
Collins continues the work he started as COO in the area
of electronic medical data recording. Winthrop ranks in the
top 4% of hospitals nationally in the use of electronic health
records. It was the first hospital on Long Island to achieve
‘meaningful use designation’ from the federal government
and the first on Long Island to qualify for a financial incentive as a result of its electronic health record system and its
move to a paperless environment.
Under Collins’s leadership, Winthrop was recognized in
the first-ever, 2011 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best
Hospitals Metro Area Rankings for ten high performing specialties. Winthrop again received the ranking in 2012-13. U.S.
News & World Report also recognized Winthrop in 2011 as
one of the nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals for demonstrating high quality care in the specialty of pediatric diabetes
and endocrinology; pediatric urology was added to the list
in 2012-13. In addition, Healthgrades ranked Winthrop as
one of the nation’s Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence four years in a row, placing it in the top 5% of all
U.S. hospitals, and rated Winthrop as one of the top 100
heart hospitals in the nation. The Hospital was also cited in
the top 100 for its women’s programs. Winthrop’s cancer
care services became the first and only hematology/oncology team on Long Island to be recognized by the American
Society of Clinical Oncology for quality cancer care.
Collins has served as president of the Healthcare Finance
Managers Association, Metropolitan NY Chapter, and on
various committees and as a board member for the Greater
New York Hospital Association. He was past chairman of
the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council’s finance committee,
and chairman of the American Heart Association 2010 Heart
Walk. Winthrop continues to participate in AHA activities.
Collins was named to the 2011 Long Island Press List of Top
50 Influential Long Islanders.
Collins and his wife Catherine have lived in an historic
home in Huntington for 32 years. They have three grown
children—Clifford, Sean and Caroline. He and his wife volunteer with Holiday House, a camp for underprivileged
girls in Huntington. Collins enjoys golfing, fishing and
opera. ■
DONALD M. EVERSOLL
Principal, The EPH Group
Principal, Timber Ridge Management LLC
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ongtime home builder Donald Eversoll continues to play a role in Long Island’s building
industry through his investment company,
Eversoll Associates, and his affiliation as principal
at The EPH Group and the Timber Ridge Organization, one of Long Island’s premier builders with
homes in communities from Melville to Westhampton.
A University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA)
graduate who studied European History, Eversoll
landed his first job in sales and marketing with one
of the “golden age conglomerates” of the time, Pacific Clay Products. He then worked in market research, land acquisition, homebuilding and sales
for a couple of West Coast companies, traveling
among the states of California, Nevada and Arizona. In 1973, he was hired by Kaufman and Broad
Homes of Long Island and moved to the East
Coast. In 1976, Eversoll partnered with Peter Klein
to establish Klein & Eversoll. Over the next 26
years, the company built some 2,200 homes on
Long Island, built custom homes in Connecticut including the community of Stamford, and converted
244 rental apartments to condominium units in
Falls Church, Virginia. As a small builder, Klein &
Eversoll became involved in all aspects of the
homebuilding industry, from land acquisition and
permit application to design and construction.
In 2002, Eversoll and Klein sold their business to
Pulte Homes, which is today the largest homebuilding company in the United States. For the next
several years, Eversoll would remain Vice President of Land Acquisition for Pulte, responsible
for acquiring over 900 lots. During that time, he
also formed an investment company, Eversoll
Associates. In 2009, he became a principal with
the Timber Ridge Organization, which purchased the Pulte assets on Long Island.
During his professional career, Eversoll was
active in the Long Island Builders Institute and
the New York State Builders Association, rising
to the rank of president in both organizations.
He remains a Lifetime Board Member of these
organizations, as well as the National Association of Home Builders.
With the majority of his career spent on Long
Island, Eversoll says he enjoyed that time as a
local builder who got to know the people and
the building environment in the communities in
which he worked.
In the 1970s, New York State began to purchase large parcels in Suffolk County to create a
greenbelt. At the same time, a movement was
growing to spur development in the County.
Eyes shifted to the Pine Barrens, a large tract of
undeveloped land.
In 1984, the Pine Barrens Review Commission
was created to evaluate development in the region, and Eversoll, a well-known local businessman with a keen sense of community and a
strong respect for the environment, was tapped
in 1985 to serve as Acting Chair for the newly
formed Commission. In 1986, the Suffolk County Legislature
initiated its Open Space Program and in 1993, the State Legislature passed the Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act
for the creation and implementation of a comprehensive
land use plan. Now publicly protected, the 100,000-acre Pine
Barrens is Long Island’s largest natural area and last remaining wilderness.
Continuing to serve the community at large, Eversoll was
appointed by Suffolk County Executive Patrick G. Halpin
and confirmed by the County Legislature in 1990 as a member of the Suffolk County Planning Commission. He remained on the Commission for 13 years, serving as Chair
from 1993-2003.
Throughout his years as a homebuilder, Eversoll always
followed the highest standards and incorporated the newest
technology of the time in order to achieve energy efficiencies
for his home buyers. In the early 1980s, he experimented
with building a solar home during the development of that
technology. “I always believed that we should have a local
process that doesn’t hinder development, but is sensitive to
the environment,” says Eversoll.
Eversoll volunteered his services from 1994-2004 with the
Community Development Corporation of Long Island. The
nonprofit organization strengthens and builds communities
by supporting homeowners and businesses through a wide
range of programs and services, and advocates for affordable rental and homeownership opportunities.
In 1994, Eversoll became a member of the Board of
Trustees of The Nature Conservancy, Long Island Chapter.
He served as chair from 2003-2005, pledging to “work with
the trustees to increase public and private support for conservation initiatives that focus on saving Long Island’s last
great places.” Another objective under his leadership was to
increase the involvement of Long Island’s younger population in the work of The Conservancy.
Eversoll currently serves on the Advisory Board of the
Real Estate Institute at Stony Brook University College of
Business. The Institute presents symposia and prepares follow-up white papers on issues discussed by leading experts
in real estate and related fields. The Institute helps develop
curriculum and provides internships and networking opportunities. He also serves on the Advisory Board of The Energeia Partnership at Molloy College, a leadership academy
dedicated to identifying and addressing the serious, complex and multi-dimensional issues challenging the Long Island region.
A member of the Board of Directors of the Family Service
League since 2007, Eversoll is currently serving as the
League’s chair-elect. Noting that the organization, which
mostly serves Suffolk County, is in its 85th year, he says,
“The League is remarkable in the amount and scope of services and programs it provides.” He adds that when recipients of its services thank the League, he replies: “All we did
was provide the tools; you made the effort and tough decisions to change your lives.”
The recipient of numerous awards, including honors from
the Community Development Corporation and the American Cancer Society, Eversoll continues to be a sought-after
speaker at conferences and symposia around Long Island.
He has 11 children, living in various places—four in Texas,
one in North Carolina, one in Europe, one in California,
three in Virginia and one in Pennsylvania—23 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He maintains homes in
Cold Spring Harbor and Santa Barbara, California. ■
DR. MAX GOMEZ, Ph.D.
CBS 2 Medical Reporter
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event when a classmate reminded him of his days
as news director at Princeton’s radio station. That
sparked thoughts of a career that blended science
and television, and through a Princeton connection, he interviewed and took a job as health and
science reporter at WNEW Metromedia (now
Fox-TV). That didn’t sit well with the NIH, which
had a policy that only forgave grant expenses if
the researcher went into full-time teaching or research—certainly not television! Facing a reimbursement cost well over a year’s salary, he
convinced the NIH to drop the charges, explaining that he was teaching, although in an unconventional forum, and could reach many more
people with one broadcast than he would in an
entire career teaching graduate or medical students.
While at WNEW, Gomez reported on the first
U.S. space shuttle launch, as well as several subsequent launches, including that of the late Sally
Ride, the first American woman to enter into low
earth orbit. Shuttling himself, he traveled between Cape Canaveral (now NASA Kennedy
Space Center) and NASA headquarters in Houston, working on medical stories. One he found
most moving was that of a Pakistani oral surgeon
at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center who developed prostheses for people who
had cancers of the head, neck and face—the devices transformed disfigured individuals into
persons who were able to reenter and be accepted
into society.
recognizable face to most New York television
news viewers, Dr. Max Gomez is a nationallyrenowned broadcast journalist with 32 years of
on-air medical and science reporting experience. As
CBS-Channel 2’s Medical Correspondent, he continues
to bring viewers the calm, accurate and meaningful reporting that has won him numerous journalism
awards.
For the lion’s share of his career, Gomez generated
95% of the stories he reported. Often, he would put in
hours of preparation for a story that would yield three
minutes air time. He’s a master of the art of medical
news reporting, taking complex and involved information and simplifying it so that it’s understandable
for the average person. He says, “I think the responsibility that is incumbent on medical reporters is far different than it is for the person doing politics or crime,”
because reporting facts incorrectly can affect the health
and well-being of half a million people.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Gomez grew up in Miami.
He graduated cum laude from Princeton University,
having studied geological and geophysical sciences,
vertebrate paleontology and comparative anatomy. He
was recruited to the anatomy department at Wake Forest School of Medicine where he studied neuroscience,
earned a Ph.D. and entered the research field. He was
further recruited by New York’s Rockefeller University to be a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral
Research Fellow and conducted research on the transmission of chemical senses to brain neurons.
With about a year left on his Fellowship grant,
Gomez was helping host a Princeton career counseling
In 1984, Gomez transitioned to KYW-TV in Philadelphia
as a health and science correspondent/editor. He returned
to New York in 1991, and for the next 16 years, he worked
for WNBC-TV and WCBS-TV as health and science editor
and senior editor. He generated, wrote and reported feature
and news stories, including topics such as clinical trials,
medical breakthroughs, medical journal studies, patient stories and rare disorders to educate viewers about conditions
and treatments. He served as health anchor on the live
evening news, five nights a week at NBC, the number one
U.S. television market. Gomez reported “live” during breaking news events, including September 11, 2001, which won
him an “Excellence in Time of Crisis” Award from the New
York City Department of Health. In 2007, he rejoined WCBSTV as Medical Correspondent. His website,
drmaxgomez.com, is an extension of his personal mission to
guide people to good health.
In addition to local and national reporting, Gomez traveled abroad, calling his coverage of the Rwanda refugee crisis and genocide, “most memorable.” Yet, he adds, “The
stories that moved me tended to be the smaller stories, the
ones where you meet a family struggling with a sick child,
cancer or autism, deafness or mental illness. They make me
want to go home and hug my kids.”
Gomez won nine Emmy Awards; he received award
recognitions from the New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation (“Excellence in Healthcare Reporting”), New
York State Broadcasters Association (Outstanding Feature
News Story, 2005 and 2006), National Marfan Foundation,
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America, New York
Press Club and UPI (Best Documentary, “AIDS”). In 1986, he
was a NASA Journalist in Space Semi-finalist.
Dedicated to making a difference in the fight against
youth obesity, Gomez is an Advisory Board member of
HealthCorps, which provides outreach through schoolbased health education and peer mentoring to underserved
populations, mostly Hispanic and African-American. In the
devastating aftermath of superstorm Sandy (2012), Gomez
and friends trucked thousands of pounds of food set aside
for the cancelled New York City Marathon to New Dorp
Beach on Staten Island and the Catholic Mission at Visitation
Church in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
A speaker, teacher and motivator, Gomez is an in-house
moderator for Memorial Sloan Kettering’s public education
panels and makes videos for patients about surgeries and
procedures. He mentors undergrad medical student interns,
residents and practicing physicians who are interested in
medical journalism. He wrote “The Media’s Role in Cancer
Prevention,” an article published by New York Presbyterian
Hospital. He co-authored The Prostate Health Program, A
Guide to Preventing and Controlling Prostate Cancer, and has a
second book on stem cells. Through the Stem for Life Foundation, Gomez helped organize and moderated a stem cell
conference co-sponsored and held at the Vatican, educating
people on the use of adult stem cells. A second Vatican Stem
Cell Symposium is scheduled for April, 2013.
Gomez serves or has served as a board member for the national American Heart Association, Princeton Alumni
Weekly, Partnership for After School Education, and is a
member and was chair of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and Technology of the American Association for the Advancement Science, the world’s largest
society of research scientists. He’s an Honorary Board Member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, Long
Island Chapter, and served on the Boards of Hope and Heroes Cancer Fund (Children’s Hospital of NY), American
Lung Association and the Science Writers Fellowship, Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole (MA), giving hands-on
wet lab instruction to journalists.
A Manhattan resident, Gomez has two children: Katie and
Max. He enjoys golf, biking the annual American Heart Association 60-mile Hamptons tour and spending time with
his children and friends. ■
ANDREW A. JACONO, M.D.
Director, The New York Center for Facial Plastic and Laser Surgery
Senior Advisor, Face to Face
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r. Andrew Jacono grew up in Suffolk
County. In grade school, he met a girl who
had a cleft lip and pallet deformity. They
talked and sat on the bus together, but he watched
the other youngsters tease her and distance themselves from her. After reconstructive surgery, however, he noticed that people interacted with her
more positively.
“That’s when I knew I wanted to have that ability
to change people’s lives,” says Jacono, and he made
facial plastic and reconstructive surgery not only his
vocation, but also his avocation.
Jacono is a Dual Board Certified Facial Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgeon with a well-established
practice, serving as Director of The New York Center for Facial Plastic and Laser Surgery and J SPA
Medical Day Spa in Great Neck, Long Island, with
an office in Manhattan as well. His practice consists
of 80% cosmetic surgery and 20% reconstructive
surgery. Jacono possesses a unique knowledge of
the face and its structure, and is highly sought after
for difficult corrective and reconstructive procedures.
In addition, he serves as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Division at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx,
NY), and Section Head of Facial Plastic Surgery at
North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, NY).
An Albert Einstein College of Medicine graduate
with Honors and Distinction for Research in
Otorhinolaryngology, he completed his internship in general surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital
and Medical Center in New York. He did a surgical residency with a specialization in Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at The
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and was
awarded the William H. Turner Award for excellence in surgical and patient care skills.
Jacono was then chosen by the American
Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery (AAFPRS) for a Fellowship in Aesthetic
Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the
University of Rochester (NY). With only 37 fellowship programs across the country, he now
serves as one of 43 surgeons chosen to serve as
Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery National Fellowship Directors for the AAFPRS. In order to
grow the specialty, the Directors guide fellowship training in the maintenance of the necessary academic requirements and fulfillment of
regulations.
As a resident, Jacono became aware of the
emotional injury and extent of facial damage
caused by domestic violence. He had performed
reconstructive surgery on a woman who said
she was disfigured in a car accident. Only a
month later, his work had been undone when
she was beaten by her husband again.
Jacono began to volunteer with Face to Face:
The National Domestic Violence Project, through which
hundreds of surgeons across the country coordinate pro
bono consultation and reconstructive surgeries for women
who are victims of domestic violence. After serving several
years as Chairman, Jacono is now a Senior Advisor.
In October, Dr. Jacono sponsored his 10th annual benefit,
About Face 2012, for domestic violence survivors, held this
year in Tribeca (Manhattan). Proceeds went to Face to Face:
The National Domestic Violence Project and the Nassau
County Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Jacono’s work with domestic violence victims was highlighted in a television series, Facing Trauma, which aired on
OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and Discovery Fit and
Health. The series chronicled his efforts in healing victims’
physical and emotional scars. He has also been recognized
by U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy and by the
Center for the Women of New York for his philanthropic efforts.
Going back to the roots of his interest in facial plastic surgery, Jacono volunteers with Beyond Our Borders, an organization that brings children from third world countries
to the United States for surgery to repair disfigurements
caused by birth defects, cancer or trauma. Additionally, he
serves as a volunteer surgeon with Healing the Children,
and travels overseas multiple times a year to perform surgeries in countries where medical and financial resources
are few. Calling lip and palate deformities of the face and
neck genetically endemic in underdeveloped countries, Jacono says incidences are 10 to 50 times greater than in the
U.S. He has made seven trips to South and Central America,
particularly Columbia, Belize and Ecuador, as well as to
Thailand.
“We operate on little babies six, eight, ten weeks old,” remarks Dr. Jacono. “To be able to take a child from a poor,
uneducated parent who has no resources, bring the child
into an operating room for an hour and hand him or her
back to the parent as a normal looking child is pretty powerful stuff.”
Whether it’s a battered woman or a child in a third world
country, Jacono adds, “When you take care of them, they
become part of your life. It’s gratifying in some ways, but
you share a lot of the emotional pain they’ve been through
when you talk to them and get to know them.”
As a leading expert in his field, Jacono conducts regular
interviews for television and radio, has been featured in national and international print and online publications. He
says he’s “very focused on education,” and he has written
two books targeted to the consumer population, the most
recent being The Face of the Future, Look Natural, Not Plastic:
A Less-Invasive Approach to Enhance Your Beauty and Reverse
Facial Aging. He has been elected as one of America’s Top
Plastic Surgeons by the Consumers Research Council of
America and was featured as one of the Ten Leaders in Plastic Surgery in Long Island by The New York Times.
Dr. Jacono has four children—Andrew, Arianna, Gavin
and Tallulah—ranging from pre-school to high school age.
He often takes his children with him to Europe and Asia,
enjoys history, surfing, snow skiing, biking and running. He
likes to paint and draw and attends classes at the Spring
Street Studio. He also takes classes at the French Institute,
so he can keep up with his oldest boy.
“My profession is great, but my greatest accomplishment
is my children,” remarks Jacono. “They are the most important part of life.” ■
HOWARD S. MAIER
Chairman
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
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ance, such as isolating a child at lunchtime or
bullying a stutterer, to come forward and help the
person. We want to encourage individuals to do
so because of what they heard about the Holocaust.” The Center, in conjunction with the Nassau and Suffolk County Police Departments,
presents financial awards monthly and annually
to young people who demonstrate the qualities of
an “upstander.”
A longtime member of the Board, Maier says
he became aware of the Center through his
daughter who visited there on a school trip. With
the encouragement of a group of Holocaust survivors who asked him to help the Center achieve
its full potential, Maier took on the position of
Chairman of the nonprofit organization in 2004.
Maier is closely linked with the rebuilding the
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center and its
rise as a major presence on Long Island.
For the past five years, the Center has been
conducting full-day tolerance programs for police
officers. All recruits in Nassau County have participated in the program, as well as officers and
commanders; Suffolk County has been sending
commanding officers and detectives to the program since 2009.
In conjunction with reaching out to law enforcement, Maier established an anti-bias, Workplace Diversity Training Program for the
corporate community to assist employers with
he Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center,
located on the 200-acre Welwyn Preserve, formerly the Harold Irving Pratt Estate in Glen
Cove, is not the typical museum that strictly chronicles the atrocities of the Holocaust. As incorporated
in the Center’s name by Howard Maier, chairman of
the Board of Directors, “Tolerance” adds the element of a learning environment that teaches the lessons of the Holocaust by actively taking on
anti-Semitism, racism, bullying, and other forms of
intolerance and calling on visitors to become “upstanders.”
“The Holocaust didn’t start with Auschwitz and
the other death camps, but rather with the degrading of individuals who were minorities, people who
practiced different religions, were homosexuals, or
had physical or mental disabilities,” says Maier.
“Today the same is very much the case. The Center
seeks to confront bullying, prejudice, harassment
and other social scars.” It serves as the largest antibullying force on Long Island, teaching tolerance to
about 50,000 children and adults annually.
“A major aspect of what we do is motivate individuals to become upstanders, rather than bystanders,” adds Maier. During the Holocaust, he
notes, “the majority of people were bystanders, letting the killing go on and doing nothing to help victims. Yet, some risked their lives to hide a Jew or
feed a person who was targeted. We try to teach
young people today that if they see acts of intoler-
workplace tolerance. The North Shore-LIJ Health System
and Canrock Ventures employees have participated.
In addition, the Center refurbished the abandoned Pratt
Estate formal garden, created by Frederick Law Olmstead,
into a magnificent Children’s Garden. The last stop on the
students’ tour, the garden is a serene place where children
can reflect on what they have learned. Maier notes that 1.5
million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust,
many of whom were the same age as the children touring
the Center’s exhibits.
Under Maier’s leadership, the Center undertook a
major renovation project three years ago. “We have an impactful presentation highlighted with artifacts and personal recorded testimony from survivors who have lived
on Long Island,” he notes. Last August, the Center received a one-million-dollar grant from the Claire Friedlander Foundation to create an Education Institute on the
second floor, which will contain four classrooms equipped
with audio-visual and other technical equipment, and specialized Holocaust video-conferencing programs.
Born in New York City, Maier grew up in Norwich, NY,
and graduated as a marketing major from SUNY Buffalo.
He earned an MBA at Bernard Baruch College in Manhattan, while concurrently working at Clairol—his first marketing position. After nine years, he was hired as the head
of marketing at Alberto Culver. The quintessential entrepreneur, Maier left to form his own business, the Maier
Group.
“The skills I learned in my corporate marketing era became very translatable in my home video industry,” comments Maier. “Producing a video is the easy part.
Marketing, positioning and selling the videos is really the
challenge.” Maier Group was a producer and distributor
of special-interest tapes, and was widely known for its
“Buns of Steel” video fitness series. It was ranked on Inc.
magazine’s list of the fastest growing private companies for
four consecutive years. Maier sold the company in 1994 to
a division of Time Warner.
Maier is an expert at demographic positioning, and had
an exercise tape for senior citizens called “Dancing
Grannies.” He marketed it in Modern Maturity and Ladies
Home Journal, and secured for the “Grannies” a leadoff
spot in a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and an appearance at a White House kick-off for National Physical Fitness Month.
“That's why we became successful,” says Maier. “We
marketed videos rather than just focusing on production.
We did packaging and graphics the same way I learned in
the consumer package goods world.” Maier also founded
Yoga Zone, marketing 90 yoga productions for television
programming and over 20 yoga videos.
Touched by the deaths of both his mother and younger
sister from cancer, Maier served as a board member and
Vice Chairman of Gilda’s Club, a cancer support organization with a house on Houston Street, the southern border
of Greenwich Village in Manhattan. During his tenure, he
oversaw the creation of 20 Gilda’s Club homes from Fort
Lauderdale to Chicago, to Montreal. Maier also served as
a Board trustee for the North Shore-LIJ Health System for
14 years, and chaired the communications committee,
using his marketing expertise to create their advertising
and branding.
A resident of Lattingtown, Long Island, Maier has been
married for 19 years to Dr. Margaret Cuomo, a Board-certified radiologist and the author of A World Without Cancer.
Dr. Maier, the older sister of Governor Andrew Cuomo,
serves as the President of the Board of the Italian Language Foundation. The couple has five children and two
grandchildren. Maier is an avid snow skier and golfer, and
likes to travel. ■
SCOTT V. RANKIN, M.D.,P.C.
Doctor of Internal Medicine
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s a physician, teacher and administrator, Dr.
Scott Rankin has shaped a career that follows his enduring desire to be in a service
profession. In the short dozen years since he finished his medical training, he has not only cared for
and interacted with patients and personnel from a
wide-range of backgrounds, but also touched the
lives of many student physicians aspiring to a
noble career in medicine.
Born in Queens, NY, Dr. Rankin attended Jamaica
High School, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Biological Basis of Behavior from the University
of Pennsylvania. Encouraged by his parents to become a doctor, he received his M.D. from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He
returned to New York to complete his residency in
Internal Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical
Center. He subsequently served as Chief Resident
at the Queens Hospital Center.
A Board-certified physician, Rankin started his
career as an Attending Physician at Maimonides
Medical Center in Brooklyn. Located in an area that
is a melting pot of cultures and religions, Maimonides diverse patient population consists mostly
of immigrants, including Russian-Jews, Asian and
Hispanic people.
“My position at the hospital was what is currently called a hospitalist,” says Rankin. “I was an
internal medicine doctor who took care of in-patients.” Rankin worked part-time, too, as Physician
On-site in the Maimonides Cardiac Rehabilitation
Center. As part of his responsibilities, he supervised interns and residents working and learning
on the wing he serviced. He adds,
“For anyone who trains in a teaching hospital,
teaching becomes part of your life because you are
constantly teaching and training colleagues who
are less senior than you.” At the request of Maimonides, Rankin developed, managed and taught
a student physician program for US-born students
attending St. George’s University School of Medicine in Granada who came to Maimonides for their
third year medicine clerkships. In addition, he
served as Instructor of Clinical Medicine at Albert
Einstein College of Medicine and the SUNY College of Medicine Health Science Center.
Rankin expanded his experience in service to the
underserved in 1996 when he took a position as
Assistant Chief Physician at Montefiore-Rikers Island Health Services, where he screened new detainees at one of the large, male intake buildings
on Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail complex. Later, he was appointed the Chief Physician
in the Communicable Disease Unit.
“In the unit, we practiced the highest level of
medicine,” says Rankin, who worked side-by-side
with seasoned infectious disease specialists from
Montefiore Medical Center. He went on to serve as
Deputy Medical Director of St. Barnabas Correctional Health Services.
In 2000, Rankin was appointed Physician-inCharge of the Hempstead Health Center at Nassau
University Medical Center. While a portion of his duties
shifted to administration, he would see patients in the Center’s varied clinics, serving mostly a Latino population. In addition, Rankin was a co-instructor, along with a psychiatrist
from Long Island Jewish Medical Center, for a NUMC medical interviewing course offered to interns and residents.
“The course was designed to enhance the medical history
taking techniques used by physicians with their patients,”
says Rankin. “Any good internist believes that 90% of all diagnosis can be made by talking to the patient. The course also
helped me as a practicing physician.”
Three years later, Dr. Rankin was named Nassau County
Deputy Commissioner of Health. As part of an initiative
begun by then County Executive Tom Suozzi, the Deputy
Commissioner was charged with developing ways to address
healthcare disparities. Rankin was appointed to the County
Executive’s Minority Health Task Force, which he co-chaired
with the County Mental Health Commissioner. To find ways
to close the disparity gap, the task force worked collaboratively with government, hospitals and private organizations,
and formed partnerships with community groups—especially working with clergy and existing health committees
within their churches to provide key health information and
promote the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors. Rankin
made over 25 community presentations in the following yearand-a-half. Through the American Cancer Society (ACS) and
100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc., and with the assistance of
Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist
Church (New York City), he conducted prostate and colon
cancer awareness forums. He subsequently served on the
ACS Diversity and Disparity Council as a regional advisory
board member.
Working in the post 9-11 environment, Rankin had the opportunity to learn how communities should prepare for future bioterrorism. The need for community “connectivity”
stuck with him. He applied this concept of “connectivity” in
the County’s healthcare disparity initiative by focusing on
seeking out organizations, finding common ground, and
sharing best practices.
As Deputy Commissioner, Rankin continued his commitment to students and volunteered as a Board member of
AHEC (Area Health Education Centers), a state initiative to
encourage students from underserved areas to seek careers in
the healthcare profession. In addition to working in the initiative’s Brooklyn and Queens coverage areas, he was instrumental in bringing the initiative to Long Island, and provided
lectures for students from the three areas in AHEC’s summer
intern program.
For his steadfast work to address the disparity gap, Rankin
was honored with the NAACP Health Award, the American
Heart Association Spectrum Award and the Operation Get
Ahead Martin L. King, Jr. Service Award. He also received the
Community Service Award from Chi Eta Phi Sorority, a national organization recognizing efforts to develop healthy
communities through advocacy, education and leadership.
“Although I like structure and health systems, teaching
and public speaking, I started to miss the patients,” Rankin
confides, and he returned to private practice in 2005, “coming
full swing,” he adds. “I learned a lot of principles from the
disparity initiative, but I saw that the action arm I wanted to
take was more personal. Returning to private practice was
how I could serve that goal.”
Summing up his commitment to the patients he serves and
will serve, he concludes, “Patients are patients; you don’t deviate from how you practice whether it’s Rikers Island or
Park Avenue.”
Freeport residents, Rankin and his wife Fern have two children: Taylor, a sophomore at Oberlin College and Franklin, a
high school senior at the Waldorf School. He recently started
playing golf and says he’s “working on my handicap.” ■
SAMUEL L. STANLEY, Jr., M.D.
President
SUNY Stony Brook
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as a professor in the Departments of Medicine
and Molecular Microbiology. A highly-distinguished biomedical researcher, he was one of the
founding directors of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. With a $37 million National
Institutes of Health grant, the Center conducted
research into the next generation of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. As a result of the anthrax attacks following 9/11, he set up a program
to improve the nation’s capability to deal with
bioterrorist threats.
Stanley was appointed Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University, and began to develop a growing interest in the operations of the
university as a whole and the potential for collaboration between research and education.
Since coming to Stony Brook, Stanley has focused on administrative efficiencies, philanthropy
and melding the University’s education and research programs. Under his leadership, Project 50
Forward, which focuses on operational excellence,
academic greatness and building for the furure,
has reduced administrative and facility costs, realizing a savings of more than $12 million in the
first year. Since he came on board in 2009, Stony
Brook has been able to raise more money than in
any other three-year period in its history, receiving 36 gifts of over one-million-dollars.
Stanley served on the SUNY Strategic Plan
Steering Committee, and championed the
s fifth president of Stony Brook University,
Dr. Samuel Stanley leads one of the nation’s
most prestigious research institutions and is
an invitation-only member of the Association of
American Universities. Stanley says, “Education is
at the core of what we do. We not only teach knowledge, but we generate it as well.” With his personal
and professional background, Dr. Stanley brings a
broad-based, unique knowledge of research and education to Stony Brook University, Medical School
and Hospital.
After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in biological
sciences at the University of Chicago, Stanley graduated from Harvard Medical School, and completed
his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston. During medical school, he spent four
months at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon,
Africa, where he realized that because of the indigenous conditions, the only way to prevent the recurrence of diseases would be to administer vaccines
and therapies to eradicate them. This fueled his interest in the research side of medicine. He remarks,
“With the right new drugs and vaccines, you not
only help a single person, but also an entire population and hopefully make a difference in thousands
of lives.” This underlying premise guides Dr. Stanley’s view of the Stony Brook mission to help many
people through education, innovation and health care.
Following residency, Stanley completed a Fellowship in infectious diseases at Washington University
School of Medicine (St. Louis) and began his career
statewide SUNY2020 Initiative that will provide stabilization of tuition and tuition assistance to economically disadvantaged TAP students. Under the Initiative, Stony Brook
formulated a longterm development plan and received an
Academic Excellence Challenge Grant that will allow the
University to hire over 240 new faculty to reduce the student-to-faculty ratio and bring in grant dollars for research.
A portion of the grant will go toward the construction of a
Medical and Research Translation Building (MART), where
scientists and clinicians can “translate” discoveries into
valuable products, such as a new medical device, a type of
heart pump, a diagnostic test, drug or treatment. The University was able to match the state grant with funds from a
$150 million gift from Jim and Marilyn Simons and the Simons Foundation. Stanley says, “It’s the largest gift ever to
Stony Brook University and to public higher education in
the State of New York, and is among the top ten gifts to any
public college or university in America. This, and other gifts,
has been transformational for us.” Stony Brook also has
plans in place to construct a new hospital bed tower that
will host clinical space, as well as a new children’s hospital.
In addition to his front office job, Stanley serves on the
Long Island Regional Economic Development Council and
chairs its Innovation work group, a collaboration between
academia and industry. He’s a member of the Board of
Trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Lab, and serves as co-Chair
of Brookhaven Science Associates, which manages
Brookhaven National Lab, the only Department of Energy
lab in the Northeast. He chairs the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which advises the government on
issues related to sensitive research that, if in the wrong
hands, could have adverse consequences.
Stanley is a member of the NIH Advisory Council on Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the boards of the SUNY Research Foundation, Goodwill Industries of Greater NY and
NJ, and the Long Island Association; advocates for research
funding from government and nonprofit sources; and serves
as an ambassador for the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global
Health Research. He comments, “Global health is America’s
health and a national security issue.”
Stanley supports Stony Brook’s Educational Opportunity
Program (EOP), which helps economically disadvantaged
students by providing tutoring and teaching study skills. Together with his wife Ellen Li (MD and Ph.D.), a distinguished biomedical researcher, gastroenterologist and EOP
mentor, Stanley has established the Ellen Li and Samuel L.
Stanley Jr. Endowed Scholarship in the Stony Brook School
of Medicine. The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to EOP students who have gained entrance
into the University’s Medical School. They are awaiting a
first recipient.
In a global university search, Stony Brook became the first
university to establish a graduate school in Korea focusing
on engineering, computer sciences and math, and awarding
SUNY degrees. “It’s a great opportunity for us to get students from Korea,” comments Stanley, “and an opportunity
for our students to study in Korea.” Stanley has received an
Honorary Doctorate in Science from Korea’s Konkuk University.
Dr. Stanley calls his travel around the country as a youngster “a great experience.” Born in Seattle, he and his family
moved to Chicago, Indonesia, California where he attended
elementary school, and Washington D.C. where he received
his junior and senior high school education. Today, he lives
at Sunwood, a house provided by Stony Brook University.
Dr. and Mrs. Stanley have four children: James (married to
Francesca Wilmott), an attorney with Paul Weiss law firm;
Susan, a medical/Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins; Katherine, a Stanford graduate preparing to apply for medical
school, and Sam, a high school student. He enjoys vacationing with the family, reading and basketball. ■
BERNADETTE CASTRO, 2013 Master of Ceremonies
O
ur 2013 David Awards Master of Ceremonies, Bernadette Castro, became
famous to New Yorkers at age four when she was able to easily open her
family’s Castro Convertible sofas in their television commercials. In doing so,
she helped to build the multimillion dollar sofa bed company and became the most
televised child in America.
Her late father, Bernard Castro, started the business in 1931 with $400. Known
through his advertising as the “first to conquer living space,” Bernard Castro was a
genius not only at designing furniture vital for New York apartment dwellers but
also for marketing his product brilliantly through the “new” medium of television.
Bernadette Castro, as President and Chief Executive Officer of Castro Convertibles,
sold the company in 1994 but retained its vast real estate holdings. In 2010, she and
her children bought back the intellectual property and re-launched the business with
the popular Castro Convertible Ottoman. Now, her grandchildren are opening the
ottoman on the company’s website – castroconvertibles.com. The new Castro is
available online only, and an expanded product line is being developed.
In parlaying her business acumen and experience into public service for the State
of New York, Bernadette Castro’s record is legendary. Former New York State
Governor George E. Pataki appointed her to his Cabinet in 1995 where she served as
Commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation and as State Historic Preservation Officer until December 2006. She also
served on the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, having been
appointed by President George W. Bush.
During her dozen years of service, Castro assisted Governor Pataki in acquiring 1
million acres of state park land. Always planning for the future, she made many
changes that Newsday called “the most dramatic changes to hit the parks system
since Robert Moses created the empire in the 1920s.” One of her major initiatives was
inviting the private sector to engage in public/private partnerships. This new policy
resulted in more than $100 million of private money investment in state park
projects.
Long Islanders and all public golfers have Castro to thank for her part in the
historic partnership forged between the United States Golf Association and the State
of New York. In 1996, Governor Pataki announced that for the first time in USGA
history, the 2002 U.S. Open Championship would be played on a public golf course
Bethpage Black at Bethpage State Park. Several months later, Pataki was able to tell
the millions of golf-happy New Yorkers that, thanks to negotiations between
Commissioner Castro and the USGA, the Open would return to the Black in 2009.
Castro attended the University of Florida earning a BS in Broadcast Journalism
and a graduate degree in Secondary School Administration with Phi Kappa Phi
honors. In 1985, she became the first woman to receive the University of
Florida’s College of Journalism Distinguished Service Alumni Award. Castro
recorded several singles in the ’60s for Colpix Records, a subsidiary of
Columbia Pictures. Her early rock and roll days live on through YouTube!
Castro is married to Dr. Peter M. Guida, retired professor of surgery at New
York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and resides in Lloyd Harbor. She has four
children, Terri, David, Jonathan and Bernard, and eight grandchildren. ■
A portion of the Proceeds From
Networking Magazine’s
®
2013 David Awards Breakfast
Will Benefit
The Evan R. Liblit Memorial Scholarship Fund
The late Evan R. Liblit
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The Evan R. Liblit Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Waste Reduction &
Management Institute (WRMI) in the School of Marine & Atmospheric
Sciences (SoMAS), Stony Brook University, is the 2013 beneficiary of the
David Awards.
Beginning with the inaugural David Awards Breakfast in 2002,
Networking® magazine has donated partial proceeds from each David
Awards to 11 worthy Long Island charitable organizations for a total of over
$115,000.
Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences is an
interdisciplinary center for education, research and public service. In 1985,
the New York State Legislature created its Waste Reduction and
Management Institute to address the increasingly complex waste issues on
Long Island.
Evan Liblit, who died in 1995 at age 45, was an innovator, teacher and a
student as well. In the mid-70’s at the EPA’s Manhattan office, he organized
a paper recycling program for federal buildings. In 1988, as the Town of
Babylon’s Commissioner of Environmental Control, he implemented a
town-wide recycling program and oversaw the start-up of a 750 ton-per-day
resource recovery facility. He later served on the National Recycling
Coalitions Board of Directors. Liblit knew his field was subject to fiscal
pressures, legislative compromise and the public’s willingness to cooperate.
In l997, the State University at Stony Brook, in recognition of the late Evan
Libit’s contributions to solid waste management and recycling, established
The Evan R. Liblit Memorial Scholarship. It is granted to a student at the
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences to conduct research on
contaminants, waste management or environmental issues.
As a friend of the environment, please join Networking® magazine and our
fellow Long Islanders in making this fund an important part of our region’s
environmental future. For more information, email:
[email protected]. ■
David Awards Honorees *
2002
Robert B. Catell
Chairman and CEO,
KeySpan Energy
Monsignor John Fagan †
Executive Vice Pres. and CEO, Little
Flower
Children's Services
Richard Kessel
Chairman and CEO,
Long Island Power Authority (LIPA)
Robert McMillan
Founder, LI Housing Partnership, Inc.;
Partner, McMillan, Rather, Bennett &
Rigano, P.C.
Joseph Monti †
Founder, Don Monti Memorial Research
Foundation
Jay Lockett Sears
Architect; Founder, Mission of Kindness
Dr. David Salten †
Chairman, Nassau County Industrial
Development Agency
Frank Castagna
Principal, Castagna Realty Co., Inc.
Richard Droesch
Chairman of the Board,
Florence Building Materials
Melvin Dubin
Chairman of the Board,
Slant/Fin Corporation
Henry Holley
Principal, The Holley Group, Inc.
John Kennedy †
President, Building & Construction
Trades Council
John Miller
Philanthropist
David Widmer
President and General Manager,
WKJY/WHLI/WBZO/WMJC
2006
2003
Francis Arena M.D., F.A.C.P.
President, Arena Oncology Associates,
P.C.
Hon. Stephen Bucaria
Justice of the NYS Supreme Court and
Deputy Commander, Army Division,
New York Guard
Willie Edlow, Jr.
President and CPO,
United Way of Long Island
Monsignor Thomas Hartman
Director of Radio and Television,
Telecare
Alfred Devendorf, Esq.
Attorney at Law, Pacifico & Marmann,
LLP
Colin Goddard, Ph.D
CEO, OSI Pharmaceuticals
Jack Kulka
President, Kulka Construction Corp.
Anthony Messineo
President, Stevenson Printing
Stuart Rabinowitz, J.D.
President, Hofstra University
Joseph Mancino
Chairman and CEO, Roslyn Savings
Bank
Charles Strain, Esq.
Managing Partner, Farrell Fritz, P.C.
Thomas Poole
President and CEO, Hallen
Construction Company, Inc.
Rev. Reginald Tuggle
Executive Assistant to the President,
Nassau Community College; Pastor,
Memorial
Presbyterian Church
Stuart Quan, M.D.
Emeritus Attending Surgeon, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and
Emeritus Professional
Surgery, NY Cornell Weill Medical
Center
Paul J. Salerno, Esq.
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
2004
Michael Dubb
Principal, Co-Founder,
Beechwood Organization
John Funk (Posthumous) †
Philanthropist
Horace Hagedorn †
Director Emeritus, The Scotts Company
and Founder, Miracle Gro
®
Bruce Barnet
President, Barnet Holdings
Edward Travaglianti
President, Commercial Markets Group,
Citibank, N.A.
Ira J. Adler, Esq.
Senior Partner, Certilman, Balin, Adler
& Hyman, LLP
2005
Abraham Krasnoff †
Retired Chairman of the Board,
The Pall Corporation
David Ochoa
Principal, NuAlliance, LLC and
The Resource Group, Inc.
John O'Neill †
Executive Vice President, Fleet Bank
2007
Dwight De Risi, M.D., F.A.C.S., P.C.
Surgical Oncologist, LI Breast Care;
Founder, Lean On Me Breast Cancer
Network, Inc.
Don Dreyer
Director, Nassau County Office for the
Physically Challenged
Aldustus E. Jordan, III, Ed.D.
Associate Dean for Student & Minority
Affairs, Stony Brook University School
of Medicine
Alec Ornstein
President, LI Builders Institute, CoFounder, Ornstein Leyton Company
Thomas P. Rosicki, Esq.
Managing Partner,
Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates
Dr. Robert A. Scott
President, Adelphi University
Thomas F. Rosati
LI District Manager, United States
Postal Service (USPS)
Hon. Paul Jude Tonna
Executive Director,
Energeia Partnership,
Molloy College;
CEO, Professional Evaluation
Medical Group
Bruce Trotter
Vice Pres., Long Island, United Parcel
Service (UPS)
Daniel P. Walsh
President & CEO,
2008
2011
Drew Bogner, Ph.D.
President, Molloy College
John S.T. Gallagher
Former CEO, North Shore-Long Island
Jewish Health System
Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III
President, SUNY College at Old
Westbury;
Pastor, The Abyssinian Baptist Church
In the City of NY
Howard Glickstein
Dean Emeritus & Professor of Law
Touro Law Center
Anthony V. Curto, Esq.
Partner, Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz,
Mineo, Carlino & Cohn, LLP
Alan Guerci, MD
President & CEO, St. Francis & Mercy
Hospitals
Patrick G. Halpin
Executive Vice Pres. for External Affairs,
Institute for Student Achievement
Thomas Kileen, Esq.
Partner, Farrell Fritz, P.C.
Emilio Hernandez
Architect / Construction Management
CEO, The Villa Group; Executive
Director, Tri-Hamlet CDC
Raj Mehta
Chairman & CEO, Infosys
International, Inc.
Kevin S. Law
President, Long Island Association
Jeffrey Levine
Chairman, Douglaston Development
Martin Schwartz
Former Executive Director, Annie E.
Casey Foundation; ret. UPS Executive
Gordian Raacke
Executive Director, Renewable Energy
Long
Island (RELI)
Scott A. Williams
Senior Managing Director, Changing
Our World, Inc.
John Roland
President & CEO, Roland Associates;
Former FOX 5 News Anchor
2012
2009
Senator Alfonse D’Amato
Founder & Managing Director,
Park Strategies, LLC
Akram Boutros M.D., FACHE
President, Long Island American Heart
Association
Frederick K. Brewington, Esq.
Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington
Hon. Thomas S. Gulotta
Former Nassau County Executive;
Special Counsel, Albanese & Albanese
LLP; CEO,
Executive Strategies
Michael J. Dowling
President & CEO, North Shore LIJ
Health System
Peter J. Elkowitz, Jr.
President & CEO, The Long Island
Housing Partnership, Inc.
William J. Johnson
Tuskegee Airman
Dr. W. Hubert Keen
President, Farmingdale State College
Marty Lyons
Founder, The Marty Lyons
Foundation; Sr. VP of Operations,
The Landtek Group, Inc.; The College
Football Hall of Fame Class of 2011
Robert M. Pascucci
President, Jobco Inc.
Jim McCann
Founder & CEO, 1-800-FLOWERS
Dr. Yacov Shamash
Vice Pres. for Econ. Dev.; Dean, College of
Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Stony Brook University
Arthur J. Saladino
Co-Chairman of the Board, Don Monti
Memorial Research Foundation
Robert A. Isaksen
President, LI Market, Bank of America
Hon. Roger Tilles
Member, NY State Board of Regents
Walter Stockton
President & CEO, Independent Group
Home Living Program (IGHL)
2010
Anthony A. Albanese
Chairman, The Albanese Organization,
Inc.
John D. Cameron, Jr., P.E.
Founder, Managing Partner
Cameron Engineering
& Associates, LLP
Lawrence E. Davidow, Esq.
Managing Partner, Davidow, Davidow,
Siegel
& Stern, LLP
Dr. Sean A. Fanelli
President, Nassau Community College
Martin S. Karpeh, Jr., M.D.
Chairman, Department of Surgery
Beth Israel Medical Center
Vincent L. Riso
Principal,
The Briarwood Organization, LLC
Steven L. Strongwater, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Stony Brook University Hospital
Maurice “Mo” Vaughn
American League MVP and CoFounder,
Omni New York, LLC
* Honorees titles as of the time of their
award. † deceased
Thank You to the David Award Sponsors...
PRESENTING PARTNER
Bank of America
RENAISSANCE CIRCLE
Sheahan Communications Corp.
DIAMOND CIRCLE
Stony Brook University
PLATINUM CIRCLE
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
Northville Industries Corp
Sparkling Pointe LLC
Timber Ridge Management LLC
The Hallen Construction Company, Inc.
GOLD CIRCLE
Americana Manhasset
Cameron Engineering & Associates, LLP
The Monti & Saladino Families
Stony Brook Medicine
TD Bank
SILVER CIRCLE
First National Bank of New York
Amy Hagedorn
Lend Lease
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Ruskin Moscou Faltischek P.C.
Sponsors as of press date
Thank You to Our Committee...
Lorraine Aycock
CSR market manager,
Bank of America
Janine Dion
director, sales & marketing,
Crest Hollow Country Club
Stephanie Jeffery Carlino
Business Dynamics, Inc.
Susan E. Eckert
legislative aide,
Legislator Lynne C. Nowick
46 NETWORKING® January 2013
Bernadette Castro
David Awards Committee
Master of Ceremonies
Jacqueline Cayne
president,
J.F. Cayne Consulting
Maureen Clancy
CFO,
Clancy & Clancy Brokerage
Michelle DiBenedetto
director of public outreach,
Long Island Housing
Partnership
Liz Giordano
CEO,
Long Island Head Injury
Association, Inc.
Sarah Lansdale
director, Div. of Planning &
Environment; Dept. of
Economic Development &
Planning, Suffolk County
Ann Liguori
president,
Ann Liguori Productions
Dr. Adrienne O’Brien
professor of Communications Arts,
NYIT (retired)
Mary Scott
producer,
Make Believe TV
Christine Conniff Sheahan
founder, publisher,
Networking® magazine
Diana Weir
commissioner,
Housing & Human Services,
Town of Brookhaven
Roz Goldmacher
president & CEO,
Long Island Development
Corporation
Kelly Ann Poole
partner, Rosicki, Rosicki
& Associates P.C.
Judy White
managing partner,
CJ2 Communications
Strategies
Amy Hagedorn
co-founder & board member,
Sustainable Long Island
Cynthia Rosicki, Esq.
founding partner,
Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C.
Elana Zolfo
interim president,
Dowling College

January - Networking Magazine

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