Past Award / Scholarship Recipients

2023 Awards:

• Poster Award 2023: Shannon Riley Young, BSN, RN, CWON (For A Poster Presentation On Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury & Medical Device Related Pressure Injury: Decreasing Rates to Reduce Hospital Costs and Improve Patient Outcomes)

• Shining Star Award – Laura Wallace

• WOC Nurse of the Year – Eileen Blodgett

• Advanced Practice Scholarship Recipients:
  Eileen Blodgett
  Tashia Watkins

2022 Awards:

• Manufacturer’s Representative Of The Year: Kerri Gualtieri of Safe N Simple
• Jeff Bish Scholarship 2022: Aundrea Summer Bertram
• Lifetime Achievement Award 2022: Judy Mosier
• MER Advanced Practice Scholarship 2022: Tashia Watkins
• Professional Educator Award 2022: Dr. Barbara Pieper
• Nurse Researcher Award 2022: Terri Beeson
• Poster Award 2022: Ivy Razmus (For A Poster Presentation On Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Pressure Injury Prevention Practice: A Descriptive Study)
• Poster Award 2022: Ivy Razmus (For A Poster Presentation On Pressure Points In Children: What’s The Difference? A Comparison Between Adults And Children On Different Support Surface Types)

2021 Awards:

• Professional Educator Of The Year: Chizu Sakai Imoto
• Patient Educator Of The Year: Linda Coulter
• Manufacturer’s Representative: Gina Bazany
• Poster Award: Maureen Rosette (“Successful Treatment Of Resistant Perineal HSV Infection with Aluminum Acetate”)
   
   

2020 Awards:

• Life Time Achievement: Barbara Hocevar
• WOC Nurse of the Year: Catherine Clarey Sanford
• Rising Star: Deidre Arch
• Manufacturer Representatives of the Year: Geralyn Lloyd Harrod (Coloplast), Frank Moroni (Hollister)
• Patient Educator of the Year: Teresa Argento
• Nurse Educator of the Year: Kate Zimnicki
• Poster Award: Kate Zimnicki (“When pouching fails: Fat grafting as a strategy to improve Parastomal contours and appliance adherence.”) and Jodi Steinbrenner (“Accelerated Closer of Recalcitrant Wounds with Novel Bio-film Disrupting Gel: A Case Series”)
• Jeff Bish Scholarship:
  Deidre Arch
  Michelle Woodall

2019 Awards:

• Life Time Achievement: Lisa Kirk
• WOC Nurse of the Year: Coleen Potts
• Rising Star: Cortney Waters
• Humanitarian: Beth Fangman
• Patient Educator of the Year: Michele Kessie
• Nurse Educator of the Year: Dr. Joyce Pittman
• Jeff Bish Scholarship: Cortney Waters

2018 Awards:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Mary A. Gerlach
• WOC Nurse of the Year: Marilyn Barr
• Patient Educator of the Year: Becky Smith
• Manufacturer Representative of the Year: Michael Cahoon
• Professional Educator of the Year: Judith Landis-Erdman
• Humanitarian of the Year: Meghan Smith

2018 Poster Awards:

• Katherine Zimnicki – “Quality Project: Baccalaureate Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Knowledge, Skill
  Experiences and Confidence in Ostomy Care”
• Carmen Davis – “Reducing Pressure Injury: An Effective Approach to Manual Prone Positioning in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)”

2017 Awards:

• Manufacturer’s Representative of the Year: Caitlan Mikula, Hollister
• Professional Educator of the Year: Lisa Leighton RN, CWCN, NE-BC, CMSRN, CCRN
• Shining Star of the Year: Tracy Swift CPN, CWON

2017 Poster Awards:

• Lisa Berning
• Maureen Rosette

2017 Scholarship Recipients:

• MER Scholarship
  Debra Crawford, MSN, RN, BA, CWOCN, CFCN
• Jeff Bish Scholarship
  Sandy Basch BSN, RN
• WOCNEP Scholarship
  Jenna Wilkening RN, BSN,CMSRN

2016 Fall Awards:

• WOC Nurse of the Year: Kathy Herman, MS, RN, ANP-BC, CWOCN
• Lifetime Achievement: Joan Van Heck, BSN, RN, CWOCN
• Manufacturer of the Year: Joe Shand
• Shining Star of the Year: Fabiola Jimenez BSN, RN, CWOCN

2016 Poster Awards:

• Honey Lynn Lerais
• Jane Theriault

2016 Scholarship Recipients:

• Jeff Bish Scholarship
  Lyndia Coucil
• Advanced Practice Scholarship
  Jennifer Turner, RN, BSN, CWON

2015 Fall Awards:

• Manufacturer of the Year Award: Ryan Kenny from Molnlycke
• Excellence in Writing award: “Colostomy Irrigation and Quality of Life” by Mary Arnold-Long, Carole Bauer, & Dea Kent
• WOC Nurse of the Year: Marilyn Whitehead

2015 Poster Awards:

• Maureen Rosette
• R. Hinshaw

2015 WOCNEP Scholarship Recipients:

• Cindy Schies
• Paula Nowling
• Alexi Pflager

2014 Awards:

• Jeff Bish WOC Nursing Scholarship Award: Timothy Luttrell
• Manufacturer’s Representative of the Year: Ryan Kenny with Molnlycke
• Nurse Researcher of the Year: Dr. Joyce Pittman
• Shining Star of the Year: Monica Davis
• Advanced Practice Scholarship Award: Rachel Hinshaw and Deborah Kleissler
• MER WOC Nurse of Year: Kate Zimnicki