The Kelowna Chamber香蕉视频直播檚 Top 40 Program has returned for 2024. The program recognizes and honours individuals in the community who take leadership, philanthropy, and business to the next level.

Honouree: Nevin V de Korompay

Kelowna General Hospital

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Dr. Nevin V de Korompay is an interventional radiologist and head of the department of radiology at Kelowna General Hospital.

He has helped establish cutting edge therapies in vascular surgery and neurosurgery, minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer, and in advancing therapy in liver cancer.

Nevin and team have grown an interventional oncology program with KGH Foundation, introducing Y90 radioembolization for advanced liver cancer 香蕉视频直播� the second site to offer this therapy in BC after Vancouver General Hospital.

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Nevin has volunteered with the Kelowna General Hospital Physicians Society and is an elected member of the Canadian board of interventional radiology. He is an investigator in the COMMENCE study investigating aortic valve replacement, and a reviewer for the main scientific journals of North America, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR), and Europe, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR).

Honouree: Tory Miller

Okanagan Young Professionals Collective

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Tory Miller juggles multiple roles through her entrepreneurial ventures.

She is the founder of Clever Girl Communications and runs the Community Cultivator with the Okanagan Young Professionals Collective, a program of the Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission (COEDC). Tory also is the 香蕉视频直播淭EO香蕉视频直播� of Vic and Jo Tea Co., holds TAC Tea Sommelier certification, and is an active member of the Tea & Herbal Association of Canada.

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Tory volunteers in the community and is a director of the Greater Westside Board of Trade and co-chair of their Membership Committee (held until Nov. 2023), where she has loved donating her time and resources to local events. She uses her influence to promote arts and culture in the Central Okanagan and volunteers at events like the World Tea Expo.