Cameos of Caring® award recipients are recognized as role models within their facility and beyond. Each facility selects their 2024 award recipient. Individuals recognized within the specialty categories (Advanced Practice, Case Manager, Donate Life, Quality & Safety, Research & Scholarship) are nominated by their facility, then designated committees select a limited number of award recipients for these areas.
The 2024 honorees represent a variety of health systems/hospitals and schools of nursing. They also span a great number of specialty areas including: anesthesia, oncology, education, intensive care, pediatrics, emergency nursing and many more areas.
The 2024 award recipients are:
Facilities | Honorees | Award Category |
AHN Allegheny General Hospital | Alana Jaye Coleman | Advanced Practice |
AHN Allegheny General Hospital | Leelyn R. A. Hollowell | Advanced Practice |
AHN Allegheny General Hospital | Jennifer Karoffa | Quality & Safety |
AHN Allegheny General Hospital | Marcia Wolbert | Honoree |
AHN Allegheny General Hospital | Jennifer R. Zurn | Case Manager |
AHN Allegheny Valley Hospital | Chelsea Kristophel | Honoree |
AHN Canonsburg Hospital | Richelle Tobias | Honoree |
AHN Citizens School of Nursing | Amy Arduino | Nurse Educator |
AHN Forbes Hospital | Luella Alcorn | Advanced Practice |
AHN Forbes Hospital | Seth Thompson | Honoree |
AHN Forbes Hospital | Janine Valko | Quality & Safety |
AHN Jefferson Hospital | Lindsay Blasko | Honoree |
AHN Saint Vincent Hospital | Suzy DiSanza | Honoree |
AHN West Penn Hospital | Michael Greer | Quality & Safety |
AHN West Penn Hospital | Marjorie Love Leslie | Advanced Practice |
AHN West Penn Hospital | Becki Okopal | Honoree |
AHN West Penn Hospital School of Nursing | Margaret Filtz Leicht | Nurse Educator |
AHN Wexford Hospital | Sharon Michelle Undereiner | Advanced Practice |
AHN Wexford Hospital | Elizabeth Higley | Honoree |
AHN Wexford Hospital | Kristen N. Ronosky | Donate Life |
Armstrong County Memorial Hospital | Philip Green | Honoree |
Duquesne University | Alison Colbert | Research & Scholarship |
Duquesne University | Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow | Lifetime Achievement |
Duquesne University | Frank Kosnosky, Jr. | Nurse Educator |
Heritage Valley Beaver | Maria Hendershot | Honoree |
Heritage Valley Sewickley | Leah DeLuca | Honoree |
Indiana Regional Medical Center | Chelsea Tunney | Honoree |
Robert Morris University | Janice Sarasnick | Nurse Educator |
St. Clair Health | Carol Abel | Honoree |
University of Pittsburgh | Brayden Kameg | Nurse Educator |
University of Pittsburgh | Jennifer Lingler | Research & Scholarship |
University of Pittsburgh Physicians Department of Anesthesiology |
Sara Fauls | Honoree |
UPMC Altoona | Chelsey Williams | Honoree |
UPMC Bedford | Heather Johnson | Honoree |
UPMC Chautauqua | Jennifer Kier | Honoree |
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Kristin Clarkson | Advanced Practice |
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Marci Czachowski | Honoree |
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Rachel Lott | Quality & Safety |
UPMC Clinical Care Coordination | Ashleigh Hunter | Case Manager |
UPMC Community Osteopathic Hospital | Shelley Heinbaugh | Honoree |
UPMC East | Kimberly Botti | Honoree |
UPMC Hamot | Reid Grapes | Honoree |
UPMC Hamot | Theresa Kisiel | Advanced Practice |
UPMC Hamot | Donald Larmon | Advanced Practice |
UPMC Hamot | Beth Wilbert | Case Manager |
UPMC Hanover | Clarissa Eller | Honoree |
UPMC Harrisburg | Shelby Witmer | Honoree |
UPMC Health Plan | Alicia Beattie | Honoree |
UPMC Health Plan | Lauren Tomporoski | Case Manager |
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center | Sarah Harmon | Honoree |
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Outpatient Network | Michele Pellecchia | Honoree |
UPMC Home Healthcare | Laura Pisoni | Honoree |
UPMC Horizon | Abigail Schuster | Honoree |
UPMC Italy ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione | Marcella Cascio | Honoree |
UPMC Jameson | Paul Fedorchak | Honoree |
UPMC Lititz | Amanda Koop | Honoree |
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital | Angela De Felice | Honoree |
UPMC McKeesport | Danielle Anthony | Honoree |
UPMC Mercy | Breanna Bagwell | Advanced Practice |
UPMC Mercy | Erin Capets | Honoree |
UPMC Northwest | Lacy Shorts | Honoree |
UPMC Passavant | Sherry Gardner | Honoree |
UPMC Passavant | Susan Edgar Hoolahan | Lifetime Achievement |
UPMC Passavant | Sandra Treser | Donate Life |
UPMC Presbyterian | Anita Fetzick | Advanced Practice |
UPMC Presbyterian | Heather Rizza | Honoree |
UPMC Rehabilitation Institute | Nichole Lively | Honoree |
UPMC Salvator Mundi International Hospital | Stefania Schisa | Honoree |
UPMC Schools of Nursing | Karen P. Larkin | Nurse Educator |
UPMC Shadyside | Christine Kramer | Case Manager |
UPMC Shadyside | Alexandra Mueller | Honoree |
UPMC Somerset | Brianna N. Tallentire | Honoree |
UPMC St. Margaret | Monica Kolencik | Honoree |
UPMC Travel Staffing | Holly Docter | Honoree |
UPMC West Shore | Brian Lucente | Honoree |
UPMC Western Maryland | Amy Hansel | Honoree |
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital | Irether Carter | Honoree |
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital | Joseph M. Zimmerman | Quality & Safety |
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System | Lynn M. Baniak | Research & Scholarship |
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System | Kaley Bowman | Honoree |
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System | Bridget L. Urda | Case Manager |
Wolff Center at UPMC | Janice M. Donis | Quality & Safety |