Houston`s Growth, Healthcare Heroes in Focus at Celebrate Enterprise

HOUSTON--(Business Wire)--
Day Two of Celebrate Enterprise, the Houston Business Journal`s four-day program
of events for executives, entrepreneurs and other business leaders, begins
Wednesday with the Houston Growth Summit, a breakfast event starting at 7:30
a.m. at the Wortham Center-Grand Foyer, where keynote speaker economist Ray
Perryman and panelists Ted Jones of Stewart Title Guaranty Co. and Adriana
Fernandez of the Federal Reserve Bank Dallas-Houston Branch will consider
scenarios for the city`s future.

Following the growth summit, finalists for the HBJ`s 2009 Healthcare Heroes
Awards and their supporters will gather at 11.30 a.m., also at the Wortham
Center-Grand Foyer, to learn who will take home the prestigious awards. Keynote
speaker will be Tom Granatir, director, public health initiatives, Humana Inc.

Tickets for both events are available at www.celebrateenterprise.com and at the
door.

The Healthcare Heroes finalists by category are:

• Administrator
Dr. Marc Boom, The Methodist Hospital
Todd Caliva, W. Houston Medical Center
Linda Russell, The Woman`s Hospital of Texas

• Biomedical
Al Alfonso, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Jack McCrary, Reproductive Research Technologies LP
Dr. Margaret Goodell, Baylor College of Medicine

• Community Outreach
Pat Sorrells, Camp for All
Angel Flight/Grace Flight
Joe Sansone, TMC Orthopedic
Dr. Mark Kline, Baylor College of Medicine
Michael Douglas, The Center for Hearing and Speech

• Dentist
Dr. Ed Oppermann
Drs. Zeb Poindexter Jr. and Zeb Poindexter III, Poindexter Dental

• Doctor
Dr. Randall Wright, Sadler Clinic
Dr. Heidi Schwarzwald, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative
Dr. Conception Diaz-Arrastia, The University of Texas Medical Branch
Dr. John Goss, Baylor College of Medicine

• First Responder
Bryan Hofmann, Total Safety
Health Care Education Finalists
Kay Austin, Santa Maria Hostel
Dr. Rachelle Doody, Baylor College of Medicine

• Innovator
Reese Terry Jr., Cyberonics Inc.
Dr. Lawrence Chan, Baylor College of Medicine
Ken Malone, Harris County Hospital District
Dr. Eckhard Alt, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

• Lifetime Achievement
Dr. Mavis Kelsey, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic

• Nurse
Mutlu Smith, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital
Angela Baker Johnson, Baylor Clinic
Esther Valdez, The Breast Center at Houston Northwest Medical Center

• Service Philanthropy
Dr. Kathleen Motil, USDA/ARS Children`s Nutritional Research
Dr. Brian Parsley, Foundation Surgical Hospital
Drs. Tri and Tue Dinh, The Methodist Hospital

• Volunteer
Diana Hawkins, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Corbin Robertson Jr., Baylor College of Medicine
N. Ray Maxie, Conroe Regional Medical Center

For Celebrate Enterprise
Lee Ann Semmel, 281-615-6380

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