Virtual Panel Discussion

Awkward is Better than Silence - Conversations on Advancing Health Equity

09 Dec > noon
lunch provided by Panera via delivery or pick up

Everyone is welcome!

[Proceeds support scholarships for medical students at the Orlando Regional Campus]

John Rivers (BS Marketing ’89) After a 20-year career in health care, he embarked on a lifelong dream of opening a restaurant. Today Rivers is founder/CEO of 4R Restaurant Group, a Winter Park-based company that boasts 22 Florida locations. These include his flagship 4 Rivers Smokehouse [locations in Tampa, Tallahassee, Gainesville, Coral Gables & throughout Central Florida].

Rivers also launched the 4R Foundation, whose 4Roots Farm plans an Orlando farm campus that aims to address food insecurity for Central Florida children through a healthy and sustainable regional food system.

The National Board of Directors is the chief governing body of the FSU Alumni Association, and has the responsibility to ensure the success of the association through the approval of an annual budget, setting policy, following the strategic plan, providing input, guidance, oversight, and expertise.

We are accepting applications through 10 Jan 2022 to serve as a national director.  You must be a member of the FSU Alumni Association to be considered.

Mark S. Chaet, a pediatric surgeon on staff at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Advent Health Children’s Hospital, has been selected as the next dean of the FSU College of Medicine’s Orlando Regional Campus.

Dr. Chaet has practiced in the Orlando area since 1997 and has served as an FSU Orlando community faculty member since the campus opened in 2003 - working regularly with FSU medical students for both elective pediatric surgery experiences and general surgery rotations.

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The Galapagos Islands

Egypt & the Ancient Nile

Greece Island Hopper

Death Valley, Yosemite & the Great Parks of California

Canadian Rockies by Train

Spain's Classics

Southeast Alaska

Scotland

South Pacific Wonders

Iceland's Magical Northern Lights

Civil Rights - A Journey to Freedom

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Nationally distinguished business executive Dena Jalbert was named the 2021 recipient of the College of Business Recent Alumni Achievement Award. Jalbert is founder and CEO of Winter Park-based Align Business Advisory Services and a champion of the advancement of women in business.

The Recent Alumni Achievement Award honors extraordinary alumni who graduated with an undergraduate or graduate degree within the past ten years.

Jalbert earned an MBA from the College of Business in 2010.