LOS ANGELES, Mar. 19, 2010 — Long-time Beverly Hills resident and Cedars-Sinai plastic surgeon Joel A. Aronowitz, M.D., hosted a private reception and dinner for friends and supporters of the Breast Preservation Foundation (BPF) to announce the appointment of petroleum businessman Paul A. Morabito as the Foundation’s Chairman of the Board.
Dr. Aronowitz and his wife, BPF Executive Director Fiona Chalom, Ph.D., welcomed esteemed guests for an elegant dinner at their Beverly Hills home, the famous ‘Bugsy Siegel house.’ Guests and supporters included Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, U.S. Congressman Eric Cantor, his wife Diana F. Cantor, Congressman Dean Heller, Ken Spiker, and executives from Galpin Ford and Comerica Bank.
Mr. Morabito, a resident of Reno, Nevada, was appointed Chairman of the California State Coastal Conservancy by Governor Gray Davis, and served from 2001 to 2005; the Senior Policy Advisor to the LA County Sheriff’s Department from 1999 to 2005; and has served since 2007 as an appointee of Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons on the board of the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT).
BPF Founder Dr. Aronowitz said, “I am thrilled that Paul has chosen to bring his formidable organizational skills and indefatigable energy to improve the plight of women stricken with breast cancer through the BPF.”
“On behalf of the BPF, I am honored by the outpouring of support we have received from the community, breast cancer advocacy organizations and our friends in government,” added Dr. Fiona Chalom.
About Breast Preservation Foundation
The BPF’s mission is to educate women about skin-sparing mastectomies and its advantages over traditional mastectomy for a better cosmetic result. Its goal is to inform and empower women to ask more questions before having a potentially disfiguring biopsy, lumpectomy and traditional mastectomy. BPF urges women to insist their breast surgeon recognize the importance of preserving the breast, which can improve their quality of life after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis.
Through its education mission and outreach activities, BPF is working toward establishing a center to train doctors to perform the skin sparing mastectomy surgery and hopes to introduce a bill requiring insurance coverage for women to receive the skin sparing procedure as well as reconstructive breast surgery.
For more information about skin sparing mastectomies, breast cancer survival and the Breast Preservation Foundation, please visit www.BreastPreservation.org.
