Business Briefs

Business Over Breakfast (BOB) - a group of local entrepreneurs and small business owners - will begin welcoming a broad base of new members in 2006. Prior to this, membership in the group was by invitation only. BOB meets every other Thursday, with the next meeting March 30 from 7:30-9 a.m. at Pierre's Restaurant, 582 Georges Road, South Brunswick. Breakfast is "pay for own." The first half of the meeting is breakfast and networking, followed by a presentation by a member or an executive sounding board discussion. There are no group dues, rather the membership requirement is regular attendance via a "four and four" rule: potential new members will become official after attending four meetings. If members miss four consecutive meetings consecutively, BOB will assume the member is no longer interested. For more information, call Mary at (732) 238-6316 or visit www.BOBnetworking.com.

The American Heart Association (AHA), North Brunswick, has announced Gary Horan, president and CEO of Trinitas Health and Trinitas Hospital, Elizabeth, has been named county co-chair for Middlesex and Union counties for the 2006 AHA "Affair of the Heart Gala." The event, "The Face of Heart Disease and Stroke," will be April 8 at Westminster Hotel, Livingston. It honors excellence in research, health care, treatment and community involvement in cardiovascular diseases and stroke. For more information, call the AHA at (732) 821-2610.

Clifton R. Lacy, M.D., president and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, has been named the recipient of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ-NJ) Central Jersey Chapter's 2006 Humanitarian Award, and will be honored at the chapter's dinner March 23 at 6 p.m. at the Sheraton at Woodbridge Place, Route 1 south, Iselin. Students from South Brunswick High School will also be recognized at the dinner for participation in the NCCJ-NJ 2005 Anytown program, during which students demonstrated commitment to recognize and fight bias and bigotry. Prior to becoming the hospital's president and CEO, Lacey served as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. He is listed as one of the "Best Doctors in America." He received his medical degree at UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School. For more information on the event, call NCCJ-NJ at (732) 745-9330.

Daniel Frankel, South Brunswick, was recently reappointed by Gov. Jon Corzine to the Middlesex County Board of Elections.

South Brunswick resident Bernard P. Hvozdovic Jr. has been named a partner at the law firm of Martin Kane Kuper, North Brunswick. Associated with the firm since 1993, Hvozdovic concentrates his practice in the areas of plaintiff's personal injury and medical malpractice. Hvozdovic serves as conflict counsel and open space counsel for South Brunswick Township, is a long-standing member of the South Brunswick Township Recreation/Community Affairs Advisory Board, and was elected a county committeeman. Hvozdovic was sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court of the United States Bar. He is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, State of New Jersey and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar, Middlesex County Trial Lawyers, New Brunswick Bar, and Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey. Hvozdovic is a member of the nonprofit Trial Lawyers Care Inc., which provides free legal services to victims eligible for compensation under the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund. He received his bachelor of arts degree in economics at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.; and his juris doctorate degree at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Del.