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Saturday, October 14, 2017FOUR SEASONS HOTEL | GRAND BALLROOM

2 DOLE DRIVE | WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA

6:00 PM SILENT AUCTION & RECEPTION

7:30 PM DINNER

Master of CeremoniesKRISTINE LAZAR

CBS 2 AND KCAL 9 NEWS REPORTER

Entertainment & DancingSTAYIN’ ALIVE

BEE GEE’S TRIBUTE BAND

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MASTER OF CEREMONIESKRISTINE LAZAR

Kristine Lazar is an Emmy award winning reporter for CBS 2 and KCAL 9 News. Kristine graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley, after growing up by the beach in San Diego. She has worked all over California, from Palm Springs and Fresno, back down to San Diego before landing here in Los Angeles in 2007. When Kristine isn’t at work, she enjoys spending all day in the backyard with her kids, or visiting the beaches in her hometown. She also loves to bake-but only foods with lots of sugar and butter!

ENTERTAINMENTSTAYIN’ ALIVE

STAYIN’ ALIVE is the quintessential tribute band to the Bee Gees, capturing the excitement of live performance and the tender subtleties of the human voice.

STAYIN’ ALIVE offers to their audiences the songs and sights of a full Bee Gees play list, singing blockbusters such as “Night Fever”, “Jive Talkin’”, “How Deep Is Your Love”, “You Should be Dancing”, “Nights on Broadway” and “Stayin’ Alive”. In addition, they perform softer poetic ballads such as “I Started a Joke”, “Massachusetts”, “Fanny be Tender”, “Words”, and “To Love Somebody” among other great hits.

“CELEBRATION OF HOPE” AWARD RECIPIENTKIM BELSHÉ

Kim Belshé is Executive Director of First 5 LA, a public grantmaking and child advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring all children in Los Angeles County enter kindergarten ready to succeed. Before she joined First 5 LA, she served as Senior Policy Advisor of Public Policy Institute of California. From 2003-2011, she was Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency in the Administration of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Kim has held a number of leadership positions in state government, including Director of the Department of Health Services and Deputy Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency under Governor Pete Wilson. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree with a major in government from Harvard University.

“GRACE LELAND PHYSICIAN APPRECIATION” AWARD RECIPIENTASHER TABAN, MD

Dr. Taban is a graduate of the prestigious NYU Neurosurgery Program. In his many years of service to the Northridge Community, he has been one of the earliest supporters of the Neuro Trauma Center at Northridge Hospital Medical Center (NHMC) and was instrumental in its development and, in the 1980s and 1990s, was the only neurosurgeon supporting it. Under his guidance, the Neurosurgery Program at NHMC has grown to be the best in the San Fernando Valley. He has been Chief of Surgery twice at Northridge Hospital and was Director of the Neuroscience Institute from 2005-2016. He was also closely involved with teaching of the Neurosurgical residents at the Family Practice Program, which started in 1977, and again he only one to do so for many years. He has continued to be very involved in the development of the Neurosurgery Program at NHMC. He is rated a 5 star Neurosurgeon on all major online physician rating sites. He has the most devoted staff, some being with him for decades, and even they are mentioned favorably in many of his ratings online. It is not unusual for Dr. Taban to see patients from all over California, as well as from other states and countries.

During the many decades of his long career, Dr. Taban has performed over 10,000 surgeries and pioneered many unique personal surgical techniques, which are routinely used in the treatment of his patients, resulting in unparalleled outcomes. Known as the “Doctor’s Doctor,” many physicians choose him when they or a loved one are in need of brain or spine surgery.

Todd AdamsPam AlfenitoSusan Bales

Casey BarbieraDorothy Benveniste

Melanie CotoDara Davidson

Mary GrimSierra GutierrezMarcia Hoffer

S T E P P I N ’ O U T S T E E R I N G C O M M I T T E E

Jeremy Grosser, MD, Committee Chair

Committee MembersShaun Kane

Valerie KohlerMaria MartinezAmanda MintzFrancia Razo

Daren SchlecterSue ShambanJody Sherman

Vanessa TerzianBessie WilsonMarcy Wong