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2008 Awardees
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
LONG ISLAND BUSINESS NEWS PROUDLY PRESENTS FORTY OF LONG ISLAND’S BEST AND BRIGHTEST – THE EXPLORERS, THE DREAMERS, THE ONES TO WATCH.
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K. Nicole Bell
Owner – Cosmetic & Laser Dental Studio, PLLC
Nicole Bell is the sole owner of a specialty dental practice with three locations in the New York area and takes pride in her pursuit to restore smiles with a holistic and conservative approach. The three locations include: Freeport, Rockville Centre and midtown Manhattan. Each location is unique, but its style of service and dedication to treatment remains the same. Dr. Bell is a cosmetic dentist certified to treat with lasers and performs many procedures without the use of a drill or anesthetics. She also has extensive training in advanced surgical and implantology. She is an attending doctor at Catholic Medical Centers hospitals where she is also credentialed to administer O.R. cases.
The Rockville Centre office offers dental spa services using specialized sedation techniques and relaxation methods and integrates traditional and non-traditional dental and spa treatments for the ultimate experience. Some of the amenities include virtual reality eyewear; beverages, cordials; Starbucks coffee; temple massage; reflexology and more.
Dr. Bell is a Long Island native and graduate of Baldwin High School. She attended Manhattan College on a full scholarship and earned a Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree at Meharry Medical College with full honors. In 2002, she completed a general practice residency at Washington Hospital Center in Washington DC, where she developed her specialty training. It was then that she decided to work closely with the special needs population, whose medical conditions and medications require knowledge in sedating drug interactions and behavioral management techniques. Dr. Bell has established a non-profit organization, The Global Healing Foundation, which will donate medical and dental services locally and abroad, beginning its missions in India in 2009.
She serves as Director of the Nassau County Dental Society, is a member of the American Dental Association, the New York State Dental Association and the Meharry Alumni Association. She is a member of Long Island Elite, Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc. Theta Iota Omega chapter of Nassau County, and the Suffolk County Forensic Dental Society. Dr. Bell volunteers her time to a host of charities including Give Kids a Smile.
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Robert Vitelli
Director of Development – Long Island Gay & Lesbian Youth
Since 2001, Robert Vitelli has been the Director of Development for Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing homophobia as a social problem to create a safer and healthier Long Island for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) youth, as well as its affiliate partner agencies – the Long Island Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (The Center), and Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE Long Island).
Vitelli has led significant program development efforts to expand LIGALY’s work with local schools and has participated in numerous advocacy efforts on the local and state-wide level to increase statewide funding for GLBT services. He developed LIGALY’s Safe Schools Initiative, a comprehensive effort to address homophobia-related harassment and bullying in schools; the National Coming-Out Day School Awareness Campaign implemented in 35 Long Island high schools with more than 30,000 student and educator participants; the Long Island Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Network to help youth and educators start more than 40 gay-straight alliance clubs as after-school programs dedicated to creating a safe and supportive space for GLBT youth and their friends; and has organized teachers and administrators with the Long Island Gay-Straight Educators Association (LIGSEA) to develop strategies for institutional change within schools. Vitelli’s contributions to creating safer schools for GLBT youth culminated in an academic work included in Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia, co-authored with an educator from a local middle school, which shares his challenges and successes in supporting GLBT youth in schools as a tool for other educators and activists.
He is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Long Island Chapter, an associate adjunct professor at Nassau Community College in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and has worked with the Interfaith Nutritional Network and the Special Olympics. He received his bachelor of science degree from Manhattan College in 1997 and his M.A. from New York University in 2000. Vitelli also devoted a year as an AmeriCorps National Service volunteer in an after-school tutoring center for under-privileged youth in Oakland, California.
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