Excellence in Innovation Award

Criteria

This award honors a School of Nursing graduate who has excelled in:

  1. The creation of an innovative system/s (something new or a new approach) that supports people in attaining optimal health, or
  2. Demonstrates novel/innovative approaches of better understanding of how to care for complex care patients, underserved patients, patients with low incidence chronic disease and their families, communities, or specific populations

Ways to achieve the innovation should include at least one and preferably two of the following:

  • educational interventions,
  • research,
  • programmatic changes,
  • a product/device,
  • a business,
  • a detailed process,
  • a service, or
  • a new collaboration, or methodology

2022
Judith Pechacek

2021
Oriana Beaudet

2020
Mary Rossi

2019
Ada Collier

2015
Erica Schorr

2014
Susan Henly

2013
Mary Benbenek

2012
Teddie Potter

2011
Linda Herrick
Georgia Nygaard

2010
Mary Chesney

2008
Lisa Carney Anderson

2007
Karen Dunlap

2006
Melissa Frisvold

2005
Linda Lindeke

2004
Susan O’Conner-Von

2003
Sharon Cross

2002
Mary Rowan

2001
Sharon Ridgeway

2000
Karen Alaniz

1999
Sheila Corcoran-Perry
Jennifer Peters

1998
Mariah Snyder

1997
Bonnie Harbaugh

1996
Donna Bliss

1995
Blossom Gullickson
Joan Stenberg

1994
Betty Lia-Hoagberg

1993
Kenneth Burns

1992
Bernadine Feldman

1991
Blossom Galluckson

1990
Patricia Chrisham

1989
Karen Alaniz

1988
Carol Pederson

1987
Dorothy Fairbanks

1986
Russel C. Johnson

1985
Mary Ann Anglim

1984
Elizabeth Colloton
Joan Stenberg

1982
Carol Reese