Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kozarek of Mercer Island are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ellen Kozarek, DDS, to Troy Follmar, DDS, son of Dr. and Mrs. Ken Follmar of Saratoga, California.

Ellie, a graduate of the MIHS class of 2001 and Santa Clara University, met Troy, a graduate of Cornell University, at the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry in San Francisco, where they both graduated in 2009.

Ellie is currently a practicing dentist in the Los Angeles area, while Troy completes a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at USC. A September wedding is planned in California. They plan to make their future home in the South Bay area of San Francisco, where Troy will join his father’s oral surgery practice.