Winners: Vincent Basilice

Vincent Basilice

Chief executive

Vincent Basilice of Holbrook has received a 2010 Theodore Roosevelt Award from Mather hospital based on his contributions to the Port Jefferson facility. Basilice is CEO of New Orleans-based OceanSafe Building Systems, a company that provides housing and energy solutions to impoverished regions, and before that was a surgeon specializing in cosmetic and refractive eye surgery. He is credited with helping establish the hospital's ophthalmology department and holds two patents for ophthalmic drop dispensers.