Awards and Recognition
2025 DAISY Nurse Leader Award
Connie Lunsford, BSN, RN, Clinical Manager, PICU
2025 DAISY Nurse Educator Award
Autumn Naegele, MSN, RN, CPN Educational Specialist, PACU
2025 DAISY Team Award
Acute Care Nephrology
2025 B. Robison-Sporck Outstanding Nursing Award
Kristen Brown, BSN, RN, CPN Ambulatory Services-Human Genetics
2025 University of Cincinnati Outstanding Prelicensure Preceptor Award
Piper Coleman, MSN, MPH, Clinical Education Consultant
2025 Torch Award
Lisa Burns, MSN, RN
Holly Pfriem, MSN, RN
Bonnie Eilerman, MSN, RN
2025 Managing Success Award
Amanda Thorne, DNP, CEN, CPEN
2025 SPN Pediatric Nursing Excellence Award – Sapphire
Bone Marrow Transplant Team
2025 LION Award Of Distinction
Bekah Doshi, Child Life Specialist
2025 High Five Award for PCAs/MTs
Emily Stiles, PCA, NICU
Mt. Saint Joseph Distinguished Nurse Administrator Award
Laura Flesch, DNP, APRN-CNP, Vice President of Patient Services
Mt. Saint Joseph Distinguised Nurse Educator Award
Piper Coleman, MSN, MPH, Clinical Education Consultant
2025 Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award
Randi A. Bates, PhD, APRN-CNP, Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing
2025 Medical Anchor Award
Beth Deering, MA
2025 Dave Huschart Pharmacist Excellence Award
Meredith O’Neil
2025 Barbara Jean Black Technician Support Excellence Award
Andre Kemper
2025 Cole-Montgomery Award for Health Unit Coordinators
Ava Howard, A5NS
2025 Eubanks Zenith Award for Respiratory Care
Regina Brandon, RT
2025 Anne Brandner Award for Excellence in Social Work
Meg Angstadt, LISW
2025 Carol McKenzie Award for APRNs
Michelle Widecan, DNP, APRN, CNCP-PA/AC, CPEN, Emergency Medicine
2025 Nutrition Champion
Mary Barnhorn, Registered Dietetic Technician
2025 Outstanding Preceptor
Virginia Mattingly, AuD, Audiologist
2025 Psychiatry S.M.I.L.E. Award
Olivia Jackson, BHS
2025 Carolyn Stoll Research Grant Recipients
Catherine Dierkes, APRN, CRNP-AC, Division of Patient Services and Heart Institute
Chelsea Goodin, MSN, RNIII, BMTCN, Division of Patient Services and Bone Marrow Transplant
2025 Patient Services Research Grant Recipients
Felicia Bernhard, MSOT, OTR/L, BCP , Division of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy
Gabriel Caceres, PT, DPT, SCS , Division of Sports Medicine - OTPT
Cincinnati Business Courier's Forty Under 40 Class of 2025
Olivia Jaworek Frias, RN, MSN, Patient Navigator
2025 Recipients
January: Maddie Means, MSN, RN, Complex Pulmonary
February: Shelby Walters, BSN, RN, Neuroscience
March: Emma Fanelli, BSN, CPHON, CPN, Hem/Onc
April: Rahegan Fuller, ASN, A4S
May: Samantha Gray, ASN, CPEN, Liberty ED
June: Maggie Jurek, BSN, RN, A4S
July: Zachary Collins, BSAN, RN, PICU
August: Tate Rigby, BSN, RN, NICU
September: Jilli Connelly, BSN, RN
October: Holly Bacchus, MSN, CPN
November: Germaine Sagbo, BSN,
December: Alexandra Hausfeld, BSN, CCRN
Sunflower Award for Extraordinary Respirtatory Therapists - 2025 Recipients
January: Ashlee Wilburn, RRT
February: Lauren Lumpkin, RRT
March: Cynthia Hurtado, RRT
April: Brad Tully, RRT
May: Gigi Gomez, RRT
June: Jamie Rakes, RRT & RJ Gustin, RRT
July: Kayla Auxier, RRT
August: Densie Barnet, RRT
September: Frances Kraimer, RRT
October: Ashleigh Rogers, RRT
November: Susan Milles, RRT
December: Pearl Taylor, RRT