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By Helene Seifer
Toby Horn is touched and amazed that she was selected to be a “Woman of Larchmont,” because she doesn’t think she’s especially remarkable. “My life is just my life,” she explains.
Of course, that’s only partially true; Horn gives more than she admits. From her involvement in the Los Angeles Conservancy to bringing music to hospital patients and the community to her volunteer efforts at the Ebell of Los Angeles, she is the embodiment of a giving spirit. Even her choice of dining spots shows her priorities. Not a fan of expensive, rarified places to eat, she and her husband Harold Tomin can often be found with red sauce spaghetti plates at Andre’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria at the Town & Country Market at Third Street and Fairfax Avenue. She values their tasty, well-priced food and enjoys that the patrons represent “a cross-section of the entire city.” Raised on Rimpau Boule-
Dr. Neville Anderson
Dr. Anderson grew up in the Windsor Square area. She attended St. James’ School and Marlborough School. After graduating from Stanford University, she was an assistant teacher at Bing Nursery School. She received her medical degree from the University of Rochester. She completed her internship and residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. There she received the Victor E. Stork Award for Continued Excellence and Future Promise in the Care of Children. For seven years, she practiced in La Cañada at Descanso Pediatrics. In 2014 she followed her dreams and opened her own practice on Larchmont Boulevard. She was named a Top Doctor in Pasadena magazine and a Top Rising Super Doctor in Los Angeles magazine for multiple years. Dr. Anderson is one of the founding members of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Health Network, is on the Board of Managers and is the Chair for the Network’s Finance Committee. She is also an attending physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is on the Board of the Los Angeles Pediatric Society. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, going to the beach, reading and playing tennis.
Dr. Courtney Mannino grew up in Hartsdale, New York. She attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and then continued on to the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. After spending her entire life in the Northeast, she decided to explore residencies in Southern California, which led her to UCLA in 2015. She completed her internship and residency at UCLA in 2018. She worked for a year and a half at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as a neonatal hospitalist, splitting time between caring for newborns in the nursery and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). While working at the hospital, she realized how much she missed caring for older children and being a primary care provider. While not at work, Dr. Mannino enjoys spending time with her miniature poodle named Maisy, relishing the beautiful weather in Southern California, and finding new restaurants and bakeries to enjoy.
Dr. Courtney Mannino
Dr. Amaka Priest
Dr. Amaka Ajalla Priest joined Larchmont Pediatrics in January 2019. She moved from Oklahoma City in the fall of 2017 to Southern California after her husband was accepted to the graduate screenwriting program at UCLA. She spent her first year in California practicing in the primary care and adolescent medicine clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County before relocating to Los Angeles. A proud Sooner alumni, she graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2012 and completed her pediatric residency at the OU Children’s Hospital at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2015. After finishing her residency, Dr. Priest joined a fast-growing pediatric clinic in Oklahoma City, where she was a primary care pediatrician by day and an urgent care pediatrician by night. Dr. Priest enjoys seeing all ages but has a soft spot for teenagers and is happy to treat them at any stage in their adolescence. When she’s not working, she enjoys reading, concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, writing and thoughtful conversations over a hot cup of tea. Dr. Priest is thrilled to be part of the Larchmont Pediatrics family and looks forward to watching her patients grow up for many years to come. vard., she and her husband live in a Paul Williams-designed home in Miracle Mile North, noteworthy for its designation as the Howard-Nagin Residence, Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #436. When she was a child, her family was friends with the home’s owners, Lou and Ida Nagin. When she visited that home, she was smitten, deciding that she would live there when she grew up. Years later, when she heard that Ida planned to put the house on the market, she and her husband made good on her childhood dream and purchased the architecturally significant home, meticulously restoring it.
Horn’s concern with preservation is also evident as a former board member of the Los Angeles Conservancy and her involvement on the House, Theatre & Grounds committee of The Ebell of Los Angeles, which is tasked with preserving and restoring the historic women’s club.
Her other involvement at The Ebell is through its social services committee, which provides support beyond Ebell’s financial grants to organizations helping women and children. Specifically, she often cooks for the monthly dinners the committee makes and serves to the women and families at Alexandria House.
Horn is very concerned with local issues and regularly attends planning hearings and community meetings. Her letters to the editor are frequently published in The Los Angeles Times.
Although she resides in historic Miracle Mile North, Horn shops at the Larchmont Farmers’ Market and avails herself of various services on the Boulevard.
After a short-lived marriage when she was young, Horn went on to enjoy, as she describes it, a “wonderful life on her own,” until she happened to meet Harold Tomin when both were at a restaurant bar waiting for their respective tables. After seven years of (as she says) “keeping company,” they married in 1985.
She was a hospital administrator at County USC Medical Center for 30 years, which she loved so much she went back to volunteer there after she retired. She served on the center’s CARES fundraising board, a hospital charitable arm dedicated to providing funds for patients in need of help beyond medical treatment. Approximately 35,000 patients have thus far received food and clothing.
Horn also joined the hospital’s arts council to acquire art “to make the place more human.” Extrapolating from that, Horn started a music program to bring inspiring, excellent
TOBY HORN
music to patients and hospital workers. “We recruit capable musicians,” she explains, “and place them in lobbies, in wards, in chemotherapy and out in the courtyard,” at least until COVID-19 restrictions temporarily curtailed the inclusion of visiting musicians around the facilities. Many musicians have come from the Thornton School at USC, but others have also volunteered, including the Chorale from the Ebell. “Music heals,” asserts Horn. “We want to attract people to ‘the hospital with the heart.’”
In keeping with her belief in the importance of music and her desire to help support musicians, Horn joined Groupmuse, a cooperative of like-minded music lovers willing to host and/or attend intimate concerts in people’s living rooms or backyards. She and her husband have hosted so often they are designated “superhosts.”
The pleasure Horn derives from hosting musical events in her home is compounded by the fact that Groupmuse provides paid opportunities for musicians beyond the normal concert venues. Things have been especially tough for musicians through the pandemic, Horn acknowledges, so this one — of many programs she supports — hits all the right notes.
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Angelique S. Campen, MD
Esthetic Medicine Specialist and ER Doctor Providence St. Joseph Medical Center Asst. Adj. Professor of Medicine, UCLA Emergency Dept.
Angelique S. Campen, MD is a mother of three, an Emergency Medicine Physician, an entrepreneur and an expert in the field of esthetic medicine. A graduate of Marlborough, Georgetown University and UCLA School of Medicine, Angelique has served as Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center and faculty in emergency medicine at UCLA. She is founder of Vital Medical Services, which serves law enforcement facilities and thus reduces ER overcrowding. She also owns “The Best Kept Secret in Larchmont,” where she offers in-home confidential botox and fillers. You have likely seen many of her clients either on the big screen, TV or along the streets of Larchmont, but you would never know it (with her talent for achieving the natural look). In her “free time” she is mom to Hunter, Paris and Scarlett; travels on medical missions to Peru, Cambodia and Nepal; is a member of Wilshire Rotary and The Ebell; and leads the $70 million campaign to build a new ER at Providence.
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Patricia Carroll
President Hollywoodland Realty
Patricia Carroll grew up in the real estate business as the daughter of Hollywoodland owner Ed Carroll. She is now president of the firm her late father operated in two offices since the 1940s on Larchmont Boulevard and Beachwood Drive. Patti actively works for preservation and is the Treasurer for the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, where she also serves on the Land Use and Outreach committees. She is a member of the Ebell Club, SASNA and Friends of Hope-Net and is on the boards of the Anderson-Munger YMCA and the Larchmont Boulevard Association. Her address is in both the Hollywoodland Realty office at 584 N. Larchmont Blvd. and the original 1923 Hollywoodland Realty office at 2700 N. Beachwood Dr., the latter of which was the tract office and first building constructed in Hollywoodland. Fun fact: the Hollywoodland (Hollywood) Sign was originally built to promote the office and the development. Currently, Carroll is in the process of preparing for the 100th Anniversary of Hollywoodland, archiving her extensive collection of historical documents.
