By Jean Hayes, Times Staff Writer
Friday, August 27, 2010
Dr. Zack Kalarickal, in the black shirt, gives the bull-horn salute with the Wiregrass Ranch High School Bulls football team. Kalarickal and his Wesley Chapel dental practice provided free mouthguards to football players at Wiregrass Ranch and Wesley Chapel high schools.
Who's news
Dr. Michael A. Pikos, a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon and founder of Coastal Jaw Surgery and the Pikos Implant Institute, recently attended the Academy of Osseointegration's Silver Anniversary Summit: Impact of Biological and Technological Advances on Implant Dentistry.
This invitation-only summit had about 100 clinicians in attendance. Participants were broken into four subsections: bioengineering, stem cell research, nanotechnology, and growth and differentiation factors. Pikos' subsection was growth and differentiation factors.
In the field of oral implantology and implant dentistry, Pikos is both a clinician and educator. He has offices at 4372 Commercial Way, Spring Hill; 2711 Tampa Road, Palm Harbor; and 8845 Hawbuck St., Trinity. Call (352) 596-6804, (727) 786-1631 or (727) 375-0469.
Events
The West Pasco Chamber of Commerce's Hudson Networking Group will have its business card and brochure exchange from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the IHOP restaurant, 12426 U.S. 19, Hudson.
The event is sponsored by Wells Fargo Advisors and will feature Derek Pontlitz, financial adviser. The cost is $10 per person.
To RSVP, call the chamber at (727) 842-7651 by Monday.
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The Pasco Hernando NPI Networking Group will meet at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at Boulevard Beef & Ale, 6236 Grand Blvd., New Port Richey. Call Rob Marlowe at (727) 847-2424.
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The BNI Revenue Source, a referral-based networking group, will meet from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday at Heritage Springs Country Club, 11345 Robert Trent Jones Parkway, Trinity.
Visitors are welcome. The cost of the meeting, which includes breakfast, is $10. Call David Randall, president, at (727) 842-7744.
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The new Free Networking International group will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at Cantina Laredo restaurant, 2000 Piazza Ave., Building 4, Suite 170, Wesley Chapel (at the Shops at Wiregrass).
The group's corporate sponsor is the Theater Doctor, and its host is Cantina Laredo. The group's director is Martine Duncan, co-owner of the Theater Doctor.
There is no fee to join this networking group. The meeting is structured using the FNI format. Attendees can order lunch off the menu at their own cost. Call Duncan at (813) 929-6816.
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BNI Eagles will have a networking event at 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the Palm Room at Springs Golf and Country Club, 3535 Trophy Blvd., New Port Richey, off Little Road, north of State Road 54. RSVP to (727) 967-1418.
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A fashion show and luncheon fundraiser, presented by Dillard's, will begin at 10 a.m. Sept. 11 at Seven Springs Golf & Country Club, 3535 Trophy Blvd., New Port Richey.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Calusa Business & Professional Women's scholarship program. The guest of the day will be Bay News 9 reporter Melanie Snow. Two auctions (live and silent) will be held.
BPW/Calusa is an alliance of local business, professional and retired men and women dedicated to improving the professional, personal and economic outlook of the business community and the community at large.
Tickets are $25 per person in advance and $30 at the door. Tables of eight are $200. The deadline for tickets is Thursday. Call Joanne Grassi at (727) 856-9595.
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