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NORTHBROOK — For most of her life, Allison Men-garelli has devoted herself to

weaving the Book Bin into the fabric of Northbrook.

Now 39, Mengarelli has gone from being what she calls the “thorough vacuumer,” a job she landed on her 16th birthday, to becoming the owner of the shop on Church Street, with the same goal in mind.

“It wasn’t about money it was more of a desire to work at the bookstore that is the heart and soul of Northbrook,” Mengarelli said explaining why she sought the job there at 16. “It is such an important part of our town.”

Mengarelli said she also wanted to work at the Book Bin on her 16th birthday because it was the first day of her life she could legally work. She kept working there until she graduated from North Park College, spent a brief stint in the book wholesaling industry, re-turned in 1999 as the manager and bought the shop last year.

Mengarelli said her goal is still not about making money in a busi-ness she said currently breaks even. She said she wants to be an integral part of the community always attuned to customers’ needs.

“Hi Marty,” Mengarelli said to a customer walking in the front door as she was being interviewed

SPORTSGlenbrook South girls basketball player Caitlin Morrison earns Athlete of the Month honors. P17

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INDEX

IN THIS ISSUE[ NEWS ]

7 10th district showdown Nancy Rotering and Brad Schneider will face off in Democratic primary March 15.

[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ]

10 north shore foodie Taco Lago joins the Wilmette food scene.

10 north shorts The latest musing from Mike Lubow.

[ REAL ESTATE ]

12 ��open houses Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.

13 �houses of the week Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled. 7 10

[ SPORTS ]

18 supreme court North Shore Weekend Selects 2015-16 All-Area Basketball Teams

[ LAST BUT NOT LEAST ]

19 sunday breakfast Profile of Dr. Dean Tsarwhas, the Medical Director of Cancer Services for Northwestern Medicine’s Lake Forest Hospital and Grayslake Outpatient Center.


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Bill Werch graphic designer

[ CONTRIBUTING WRITERS ] Sheryl Devore Scott Holleran Jake Jarvi Angelika Labno

Simon Murray Julie Kemp Pick Steve SadinGregg Shapiro Jill Soderberg Emily Spectre

[ PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART ]Joel Lerner chief photographer

Larry Miller contributing photographerRobin Subar contributing photographer

Barry Blitt illustrator

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view who has been a regular for 10 years. Meyers said she likes the service.

“I’m greeted by name every time I walk in,” Meyers said. “They know I like mysteries and will say, ‘I think you’ll like this.’ They’re right 99 percent of the time.”

There was a time Meyers could not shop in the store. She was thrown from a horse and had to recuperate at home. She called her order in.

“The books were hand delivered and arrived with a hand written get well card,” Meyers said. “They really know how to make you feel good.”

Mengarelli said she hopes profits will start flowing from changes she has made since she took over. She said some, like a children’s story time which pre-miers at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 13, are noticeable while others things are more behind the scenes.

“I plan to put the inventory on computer,” Mengarelli said. “It will streamline many processes. We’ll know which books we sell and what we have on hand. We’ll be able to report our sales to the New York Times best seller list.”

The business already has a website where it sells books, ac-cording to Mengarelli. She said the computerization will make that work more smoothly. If a book is not in the store’s inventory, she said she will find it for a customer whether online or in the store.

One thing Mengarelli said she plans will be selling tote bags to encourage customers to bring them back to the store for new books rather than using paper or plastic bags.

“If you bring it in you’ll get a discount off your purchase,” Men-garelli said. “It’s good for the envi-ronment and I like to reward our customers. It’s a definite motiva-tion.”

When Mengarelli started working at the Book Bin at 16 she said everyone did all the jobs and she plans to keep the same team approach she experienced as an employee and used as the manager. The outlook will be a little different.

“I’ve been adjusting to making my own decisions rather than ex-ecuting somebody else’s idea,” Mengarelli said.

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WINNETKA – A new restaurant called Taco Lago has opened in

Wilmette in the Spanish-style shopping center Plaza de Lago on Sheridan Road. With the tag line “locally sourced crafted with love,” the taqueria is a welcome addition to the Wilmette food scene.

When the Moss Family, owners of Plaza de Lago, approached restaurant owner Tim Lenon about opening a restaurant in the storefront formerly occupied by Artisan he was immediately in-terested. “I had been wanting to do a taqueria and being Plaza de Lago it fit with the motif,” he said.

Lenon is no stranger to the Wilmette restaurant scene. He opened the popular restaurant Fuel in downtown Wilmette six years ago and was also a partner in Nick’s Neighborhood Bar &

Grill before selling his share. Lenon brings to this new venture his passion for local, fresh and farm-to-table food that continues to draw customers to Fuel.

Chef Armondo Esquivel — who is also a chef at Fuel — created a menu that is authentic Mexican food and incorporates his own family recipes. “He is probably the most talented chef on the North Shore. He is amazing,” Lenon said.

The menu offers a variety of soft corn tacos that include among others marinated pork shoulder, strip steak or marinated fish, as well as soups and salads. Every-thing from the salsa, chips and tortillas are made fresh on site. The menu is also primarily gluten and dairy free, with gluten free cupcakes for sale from the Wil-mette’s new bakery, Gigi’s Cup-cakes. The restaurant also offers beer, wine and house made mar-

garitas and cocktails.“The food is healthy but taste-

ful sticking with that theme of what I do. If you are going to go out to eat, why not do it better than at home?” Lenon said.

Lenon described the restaurant as a “fast casual,” where customers order from a large counter at the front of the restaurant and food is delivered to the table. The at-mosphere may be best described as industrial with a cool Latin vibe. The concrete floor is dyed while the ceiling is completely exposed.

All of the furniture was re-purposed from when Artisan occupied the space, with spacious tables in the front of the restaurant and small square tables surround-ed by colorful metal stools situ-ated in the back. Succulents are planted into each of the tables, a unique feature that was created by Lenon’s mother, who is landscape designer.

Perhaps most striking is a large graffiti mural that was done by Chicago artist Mario Miramontis, who has shown his art across the country. Another wall features silhouettes of all of the investor’s children with the words Taco Lago done in Miramontis’ graf-fiti lettering.

Lenon is excited to see Wil-mette’s business community evolve as more restaurants con-tinue to open. He’s observed how the Wilmette business commu-nity is becoming more cohesive and working together. And while he thinks there is more work to be done, he’s pleased to see some progress. “There is now a sense of community outside of sports and education [in Wilmette],” Lenon said.

Lenon envisions Taco Lago as the perfect spot for anyone to enjoy a bite to eat. With a varied yet healthy menu that ranges in

price from $6 to $12, he seeks to appeal to most people. And he also thinks it is a good place for kids to eat something healthy, instead of processed food.

“It has been super well received. I knew it was a niche that was

needed in the area,” Lenon said.Taco Lago is located in Plaza de

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After sitting through a performance at a North Shore playhouse last

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Was it really the show? Or is your attention span shrinking? Maybe it’s a result of the quick-moving digital culture in which we’re immersed.

In a relatively short time, the mental environment has become all too comfortable with short stuff: texts, posts, emails, tweets,

pop-ups, even shorthand head-lines that crawl on the bottom of TV screens while you’re trying to watch the big picture.

If you send someone an email with more than, say, three lines, you’ve learned they might not read the bottom one. So you don’t put anything really impor-tant down there.

If someone starts telling you a long story, you might feel like spinning your hand in the air to signal “yeah, yeah, then what?” You don’t do this, but you get the urge.

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scratched off your list when you hear it runs three hours. You loved watching baseball once, but now it seems draggy. A play with two acts sounds better than one with three. And a non-in-termission shorty is better yet.

Kids who grew up tweeting and texting from birth under-stand this. Adults born before all that are in a transitional stage. But humans are adapt-able. Could be that people are slowly (or kinda quickly) evolv-ing into a new species of human. Call it, maybe, homo twitterus.

Enough. Point made. Your smartphone just vibrated. Time to move along.



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BE MY VALENTINEPhotography by Sheri Whitko

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The 500-yard freestyle race at the state swimming and diving meet ends. Two boys

had touched the final wall in what appeared to be a virtual tie at Evanston Township High School last month. Glenbrook South junior Sam Iida, the clear favorite, the Steph Curry of the distance race in Illinois, looks up at the natatorium’s scoreboard and sees a “2” next to his name. A … what? Odd. Did Sam Iida, the dominant reigning state champ in the 500 free, just finish runner-up in the 500 free?

Iida, bobbing in Lane 4, looks for the “1” on the scoreboard. There it is, next to Colton Paulson’s name. Paulson, looking up and bobbing in Lane 3, is a sophomore from Peoria Notre Dame High School. Paulson feels a hand grab his left arm. The hand belongs to Iida. Iida raises Paulson’s left arm, a former champion acknowledg-ing a current champion in the classiest way imaginable.

“He was speechless, didn’t know how to react to what I was doing,” Iida recalls. “I then said to him, ‘Great race. That was a great race. Congratulations, dude, you just swam one of the fastest [500 free] times in the history of Illinois swimming.’ ”

So had Iida. Paulson clocked a 4:25.87 on Feb. 27, the 5-foot-9, 160-pound Iida a 4:26.95. Paul-son’s time in the event ranks fifth all-time in state history, Iida’s ninth all-time. It was a titanic matchup, compelling and iceberg-free.

“Interesting race,” Titans coach Keith McDonald says. “It kind of caught us off-guard. No one in the 500 [free] had been within shout-ing distance of Sam in two years. Sprinting is not Sam’s forte; his strength is his endurance. He never tires in races, never wears down. I expected Paulson to wear down, to fade in the last 100 yards. He didn’t. That’s on me. I should have better prepared Sam for a race like that.

“I saw Sam behind the blocks after the race. He was surprised, a little shocked. He was also deter-mined. He told me, ‘I have to train harder.’ ”

Years ago, in a pool on Satur-days in Glenview, a young Sam

Iida learned to swim. He looked forward to hours in a pool like a native of Florida looks forward to hours in an igloo.

“Hated it,” Iida says. “Hated swimming. I did, though, enjoy the free time we had during the sessions. I got to screw around and be a little kid in the water.”

The little kid turned 11. The little kid’s times in races dropped, reaching decent levels. Iida no longer hated swimming. It was fun, touching the final wall in a race before anyone else did. He could get the hang of swimming, he figured. Iida continued to race. Iida’s times continued to melt.

“Something just … clicked,” he says. “I opened up to the sport of swimming and started to love it, even though I found it to be ex-tremely hard. But if you look at the process of swimming, the

process of improving, of going faster, it can be fun. It’s fun getting better at something you love to do.”

His father, Steve Iida, started to coach swimming when his daughter, Katie, showed sustained interest in the sport. Katie is now a senior at New York University.

Steve Iida is now the head coach at Glenview Titan Aquatic Club (GTAC), his son’s club, and a coach for the USA Junior Na-tional Team.

“There’s nothing like having a dad who is also one of your coaches,” the son says. “He is such an important part of my life. He knows what I can do. He knows how much he can push me in the sport. You know what’s really nice? It’s knowing I can trust him. I can trust my dad, the coach, always.”

Freshman year, Sam Iida fin-

ished sixth in the 500 free (4:37.11) and swam on the Titans’ 12th-place 200 medley relay team (1:36.85) at the state meet. Soph-omore year, when MacDonald’s varsity tied for third place at the state meet, Iida sped to gold in the 500 free (4:31.13), silver in the 200 IM (1:50.91), bronze as a

member of the 400 free relay (3:06.21). Last month, in addition to recording his personal-best time in the 500 free, Iida finished runner-up in the 200 IM (person-al-best 1:48.33) and a helped a pair of relays place in the top 10 at state.

He attended the 2012 U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska, as a spectator. The experience amazed him. He plans to attend the 2016 U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska, this summer

as something else, as a swimmer, a deck mate of some fella named Michael Phelps. Iida swam faster than the Trials cut in the 400-meter IM. He traveled to Orlando, Florida, last weekend, hoping to swim under the Trial cuts in the 200-meter IM and 200-meter breaststroke events.

“It’s his work ethic,” Titans senior Byron Mandell, a 2016 state medalist (ninth place) in the 200 medley relay, says of one of Iida’s salient strengths. “He has this willingness to always do more. Sam never backs down from hard work; he looks for it.”

Elite swimmers like to visualize their races on the night before a race, sometimes with teammates in a dark room or in a section of bleachers. Iida does that. He also closes his eyes at home and imag-ines how his races should unfold

on the eve of meets. His favorite spot is the coziest spot at his home in Glenview. He loses himself in that spot. He wins races in his mind.

“I sit in this beanbag-type of chair,” Iida says. “It’s a weird chair, comfortable. I sit in it, put my head back. I think about my races, how I’m going to race them. The think-ing, it gets my heart rate up. I twitch. Visualizing everything you want to do in a race is helpful.”

Also helpful, this winter: the presence of Rick Peterson, a GTAC coach and a first-year Titans assistant coach. MacDon-ald has known Peterson for decades. The man has a knack for teaching swim strokes to swim-mers of all ages and connecting instantly with swimmers at all levels.

“Great guy, phenomenal coach,” Iida says. “I can talk to him about anything, not just swimming. If you were to bring up the topic of breakfast with him, he’d talk about it and you’d learn a life lesson along the way.”

Iida pauses. Somehow badmin-ton had surfaced during an inter-view about mostly swimming. Iida’s voice grows livelier. The Titans and Coach MacDonald play in a badminton tournament each winter break. Iida took fourth in the tourney this past winter, falling to Mandell in the match for third place. MacDonald won it. He has won it many times. The trophy isn’t named after him. Yet. A win over MacDonald in next season’s badminton tournament would mean the world to Iida, maybe even top the satisfaction of a win over Paulson in the 500 free at state.

“Sam,” MacDonald says, “has achieved a lot of things … as a swimmer. But he won’t be able to beat me in badminton. I just don’t see that happening. I have a mental edge over him, over everybody.”

Tough talk, Coach Mac. Con-fident talk, too.

Your serve, Sam.“I’m a finesse player,” Iida says.

“I like to make people move, run them all over the court. I like to wear them out.”

Who needs the UFC when there’s MacDonald vs. Iida?

By Bill mclean, [email protected]

Keeping it in perspectiveiida’s class — and genuine sportsmanship — stands out at state meet

I-CATCHING: Glenbrook South’s Sam Iida reacts to his personal-best time in the 200 IM at the recent state meet. photography By joel lerner



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Matt Giannakopoulos has been commissioned. He will be asked to handle a

baton as deftly as a basketball.With senior Jimmy Martinelli

moving on after two heralded and all-star seasons in the Central Sub-urban League South Division, Glenbrook South boys basketball coach Ben Widner is banking on “Matty G” being “The Next”.

“I certainly think so,” Widner says. “Nobody wants it more than he does.

“He’s non-stop basketball,” the coach adds. “He plays it every day.”

The on-court talent is there with Giannakopoulos. The 6-foot-4 junior, who can score the ball in a variety of way, has plenty of upside. His game is complete and well rounded.

But what sticks out most with Widner is Giannakopoulos’ inner fire.

Giannakopoulos, who attended middle school at Christian Heri-tage Academy in Northfield, is pretty much free and easy — until he steps into a lion’s den.

Put him in a practice drill and watch his competitive nature come out.

“He’s one of those guys who wants to win every drill in practice,” says Widner. “He’s a tireless worker. He’s always ready for the next drill.”

Giannakopoulos says that he

can’t help himself. It’s in his DNA.“It’s true what Coach says,” Gi-

annakopoulos confesses. “My dad [Pete] is really competitive. I learned it from him.”

Giannakopoulos says he’s ready to take that baton — leadership role — and run with it.

“I’m excited about it,” he says. “I’ll take some of the things I’ve learned from Jimmy and apply it to next year’s team.”

“Being a vocal leader doesn’t come naturally for him [Gianna-kopoulos],” says Widner. “But he’s real good at leading by example.”

Giannakopoulos has done a good job of building equity over the years. He’s coming off a solid season with the Titans (12-16). After averaging 5.1 points as a sophomore, he more than doubled that output this winter: 11.3 ppg. The only Titan to outscore him was Martinelli (16.4).

Giannakopoulos has the ability to stretch a defense. He was GBS’s top long-range shooter, going 35-for-83 (43 percent) from beyond the arc. As a sophomore, he was a 39 percent shooter from three-point property.

“He’s still progressing,” Widner says. “He’s gotten more confident. He’s asserted himself more.

“He’s letting the game come to him,” the coach adds. “He shoots well. He jumps well. He’s got long

arms and really strong hands. He plays even bigger around the rim.”

Giannakopoulos ended up as the team’s second leading rebound-er (4.6) this winter behind Marti-nelli (6.6). He averaged 3.2 re-bounds as a sophomore.

Giannakopoulos sees his up-coming senior season as crucial. He’d like to play at the next level. Most likely, he’ll end up at a Divi-sion III school.

“There’s interest in him,” says Widner. “There are people asking about him.”

Giannakopoulos, who plays his club basketball with Full Package Athletics, pretty much has his off-season mapped out.

“I’ll focus on weight lifting and building up my body,” he says. “I’ll work on my ball-handling.”

And that basketball hoop in the driveway? Don’t worry. It will be put to good use. It will get plenty of love.

“I plan to put up a lot of shots,” says Giannakopoulos. “I’ll be shoot-ing a lot in the driveway.”

Notable: Glenbrook South junior guard Logan Hampton kept his season alive by advancing in the Three-Point Showdown. He made 10 threes at Glenbrook North on March 4. He’ll shoot again at the GBS Sectional on March 11. … The Titans were eliminated from

postseason play on March 1, when they fell to top-seeded Evanston 56-29 in a regional semifinal at Warren High School. Giannako-poulos was the lone Titan to finish in double figures (11 points). A night earlier, GBS upset the host Blue Devils 61-48 in a regional quarterfinal. Jimmy Martinelli tossed in 18 points to go along with 10 rebounds, five blocks and three steals. Giannakopoulos and Dan Jenkins had 13 points apiece, while Max Johnson had six points and three rebounds. Jack Szafranski was credited with four assists. … Jenkins was GBS’s third-leading scorer (7.8 ppg) behind Martinelli and Gi-annakopoulos. … According to coach Ben Widner, Martinelli is being recruited heavily by Division III perennial power Illinois Wes-leyan. Emory and New York Uni-versity also are high on his list. … Former GBS standout Jamie Nikitas averaged 25.1 points per game during his senior season at Lawrence University. His 577 points breaks the Vikings’ single-season scoring record and ranks him fourth in career points (1,406). The 6-0 guard was the second-leading scorer in the Midwest Conference and ninth nationally in NCAA Division III basketball. The First Team all-league pick also led the Vikings (10-13) in rebounds (155), assists (79) and steals (59).

For his efforts, Nikitas has been named as one of the 10 finalists for the Jostens Trophy — given to the nation’s top Division III player. The award winner will be announced on March 17 at the NCAA Divi-sion III national tournament in Salem, Virginia. … George Ma-

vrakis, a 2015 GBS grad, also is a member of the Lawrence basketball team. … GBS’s future is bright. The freshman team, under the direction of coach Greg Kapsimalis, finished the season 19-3. The young Titans won the league title took first place in two tournaments.

By kevin reiterman, [email protected]

next upGiannakopoulos poised to assume leadership role for Titans

G-FORCE: GBS junior Matt Giannakopoulos drives hard to the basket during regional action at Warren. photography By roB dicker

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BOySPLAyEr OF ThE yEArLorenzo Edwards (Lake Forest) Sr.

FAB FIVEC: Lorenzo Edwards (Lake Forest) Sr.G: Ramar Evans (Loyola Academy) Jr.F: Jimmy Martinelli (Glenbrook South) Sr.F: Michael Stachnik (Glenbrook North) Sr.F: Colin Winchester (New Trier) Sr.

SECOND FIVEG: Brandon Danowski (Loyola Academy) Sr.F: Zach Fleischer (Highland Park) Sr.G: Chris Harris (LF Academy) Jr.G: Tino Malnati (New Trier) Sr.F: Kellen Witherell (Glenbrook North) So.

ThIrD FIVEG: Matt Giannakopoulos (Glen-brook South) Jr.C: Daniel Joseph (LF Academy) Sr.

G: Zach Hoffman (Glenbrook North) Sr.G: James Karis (Glenbrook North) Jr.G: Justin McMahon (Lake Forest) Jr.

FOurTh FIVEC: Spencer Boehm (New Trier) Fr.G: Dan Jenkins (Glenbrook South) Sr.F: Ryan Kitchel (Lake Forest) Sr.G: Ziv Tal (Highland Park) So.G: Andre White Jr. (Loyola Academy) Fr.

ALL-rOOkIE TEAMC: Spencer Boehm (New Trier) Fr.G: Evan Myers (Glenbrook North) Fr.G: Ziv Tal (Highland Park) So.G: Andre White Jr. (Loyola Academy) Fr.F: Kellen Witherell (Glenbrook North) So.

rOOkIE OF ThE yEArKellen Witherell (Glenbrook North) So.

uNSuNG hErOJoey Saslow (Highland Park) Sr.

BEST OFF ThE BENChReed Thomas (Lake Forest) Jr.

BEST ShOT BLOCkErLorenzo Edwards (Lake Forest) Sr.

ChAIrMAN OF ThE BOArDSLorenzo Edwards (Lake Forest) Sr.

SPIrIT AwArDEddie Trapp (Loyola Academy) Sr.

GiRlSPLAyEr OF ThE yEArJeannie Boehm (New Trier) Sr.

FAB FIVEC: Jeannie Boehm (New Trier) Sr.G: Caitlin Morrison (Glenbrook South) Sr.G: Kathryn Pedi (New Trier) Sr.C: Liz Satter (Loyola Academy) Sr.G: Carie Weinman (Glenbrook South) Jr.

SECOND FIVEG: Haley Greer (New Trier) Sr.G: Autumn Kalis (New Trier) Sr.G: Sarah McDonagh (Glenbrook South) Sr.F: Tessy Onwuka (LF Academy) Sr.G:Delaney Williams (Lake Forest) Jr.

ThIrD FIVEF: Kaci Burden (Highland Park) Sr.F: Ilana Malman (Glenbrook North) Sr.

G: Colleen Palmer (Regina Do-minican) Jr.F: Maeve Summerville (Lake Forest) So.F: Miranda Weber (Glenbrook North) Sr.

FOurTh FIVEG: Kirby Bartelstein (Highland Park) So.C: Mary Cormier (Loyola Academy) So.G: Kelly French (Regina Do-minican) So.G: Lizzy Shaw (Glenbrook South) So.F: Brianna Sturkey (LF Academy) Sr.

ALL-rOOkIE TEAMG: Jordan Davison (Glenbrook North) So.G: Sydney Ignoffo (Highland Park) Fr.G: Julia Martinez (Loyola Academy) Fr.G: Mikayla Stadler (Glenbrook

South) Fr.F: Grace Tirzmalis (Lake Forest) Fr.

rOOkIE OF ThE yEArGrace Tirzmalis (Lake Forest) Fr.

uNSuNG hErOMadison Kane (Loyola Academy) Jr.

BEST OFF ThE BENChErin Dowdle (Loyola Academy) Sr.

BEST ShOT BLOCkErJeannie Boehm (New Trier) Sr.

ChAIrwOMAN OF ThE BOArDSJeannie Boehm (New Trier) Sr.

SPIrIT AwArDDahlia Cohen (Highland Park) Sr.

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The doctor’s tranquil, confident bedside manner is apparent at a booth in a restaurant.

Dean Tsarwhas, MD, has an easy smile, every hair in place, a runner’s trim build. He orders coffee and oatmeal (with blueberries and blackberries) and an English muffin at Egg Harbor Café in Lake Forest, his hometown since 2001.

The tone of his order puts the waitress at ease. He makes eye contact with the employee, nods, returns the menu. His order puts his booth companion at ease as well. Dr. Tsarwhas listens to a question. His resting-heart-rate demeanor is part placid, part welcoming. If there ever comes a time when a doctor has to inform you of a cancer diagnosis, you would want to hear it from Tsarwhas.

“The hardest part of my day,” Tsarwhas, 52, says of revealing such news to a patient. “As soon as I walk into the room, the patient is looking for clues from me, clues to what I am about to say. One of the first things I ask, after telling the patient, is, ‘Who is on your team?’ You have to have a team in place to support you every step of the way. That team could be the family or other loved ones or friends, or every-body in that person’s life.”

Tsarwhas’ team is based at Northwestern Medicine’s Lake Forest Hospital. He was named captain of one of the hospital’s

groups in January, or Medical Director of Cancer Services at the hospital and Grayslake Out-patient Center. His specific teammates are surgeons, radia-tion doctors, nurse navigators, social workers, dieticians, hospi-tal administrators. Northwestern Medicine’s Lake Forest Hospital also provides its patients a pathway to research and clinical trials conducted in Chicago.

“It’s important to stay up with up-to-date findings in oncology, to stay connected with our Northwestern Medicine col-leagues in Chicago,” Tsarwhas says. “We use a strong multidis-ciplinary approach. I am excited about the hospital, about what’s going on there, about its growth and connection to Northwestern Medicine. There’s nothing like it, Northwestern Medicine aligning with a community hos-pital, sharing resources, integrat-ing. Lake Forest Hospital is an asset in Lake Forest … along the whole North Shore, really.

“The people in this area are medically sophisticated,” he adds. “People here want the best care, and they’re getting it.”

Tsarwhas grew up in Canton, Ohio, a punt, pass and kick away from that town’s Pro Football Hall of Fame. The future doctor, a son of a kindergarten teacher mom and a school administrator dad, wanted to be a crack debater at GlenOak High School, not a crack defensive back. Tsarwhas tackled assignments and aced

classes, paving his way to admis-sion at Northeastern Ohio Uni-versity and a medical degree. He completed his residency at the University of Michigan and at-tained fellowship status at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.

Tsarwhas met a woman, Amy, on a blind date in Michigan. Amy worked for Chrysler at the time. Tsarwhas is Greek. Amy is Greek. Eerily, several years before the two had met, Amy’s mother, Christine, read about the success of a man named Dean Tsarwhas in a 1987 edition of the Orthodox Ob-server, a newspaper. Christine cut the article out and placed it in a jar.

“Amy,” Dr. Tsarwhas recalls, “called her mom up and said, ‘Hey, I’m going on a blind date tonight.’ Later in the conversa-tion, her mom said, “I know what he looks like.’ ”

Dean and Amy got married in 1991. They lived in Liber-tyville for eight years before moving to Lake Forest 15 years ago. They have three children, ranging in age from 18 to 23.

“My wife gives me balance, keeps me grounded,” Dr. Tsarwhas says. “I have m o r e adminis-

trative duties now [because of his new position], but I still see patients. The number of hours I work … they’re long, yes. I get calls f rom patients on the weekend, from doctors. This field

can be consuming. It’s also a calling. You have to love it, and I do. Every day I see strength and courage from my cancer patients. I see optimism and resiliency.”

One of his patients had Stage 4 cancer. The patient ran in the Chicago Marathon one year and decided to run in it nine more

times. The patient ran in the Boston Marathon three times. The patient is alive today, still refusing to exit life’s stage. Tsarwhas was in a restaurant

when he recognized another former patient of his, a Hodgkin’s lym-phoma survivor. The survivor is now the father

of a couple of kids.“I form strong relation-

ships with my patients,” Tsar-whas says. “Many of my pa-tients are friends for life. I

think often of what my patients are going

through, like a mother in her 30s with breast cancer,

with young kids. I think of what she’s doing to be there for her kids, of how she’s r a l l y ing each day. I am in awe

of her.”A year

ago he spent

two weeks at the largest referral hospital in Uganda, teaching student residents and represent-ing the American Society of Hematology. The hospital con-tains 1,500 beds. Some 3,000 patients had been admitted to the same hospital when Tsar-whas arrived. How big was the shoehorn that was used to pull off that feat?

“The worst hospital in the United States would be the best hospital in Uganda,” Tsarwhas, also the vice chief of the Lake Forest Hospital medical staff and a faculty member of the North-western University Feinberg School of Medicine, says. “There is such a disparity in resources. It made me appreciate what we have here. It was an unbelievable experience, spending time over there, seeing the challenges that country faces in patient care. The students there impressed me. They’re bright and eager, willing to learn.”

The students asked questions. The students got answers. Tsar-whas, stateside, occasionally fields a question that has nothing to do with diagnoses or treat-ments. And everything to do with his state of mind. The ques-tion: Do you get depressed doing what you do?

“I don’t,” Tsarwhas says. “It’s a privilege to come to work every day and help my patients live the longest and best life possible. The people I see, my patients, inspire me. I get inspired every day.”

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