The Courageous Provider Award annually recognizes clinicians providing exceptional family-centered care in circumstances of serious childhood illness. Nominees must demonstrate excellence in engaging with patients, parents or other caregivers, and/or other pediatric specialists in a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to care. They must demonstrate qualities of compassion, tenacity and empathy in journeying with children and their families. Award recipients may be physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, social workers, therapists or others.
2025 Nominations are Now Open
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 5pm ET. You can find instructions and a simple online form to complete here.
Please note that a minimum of one, maximum of three, letters of support are required and must be submitted at the time of nomination in order to be considered by the Committee.
All nominations will be kept confidential.
Whereas previous years have had multiple recipients, there will be only one (1) in 2025. The final determination will be made in late May 2025.
Prior Award Recipients
2024
Carol May, RN, MSN, MBA, CHPPN, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Zeena Audi-Saba, MD, Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, NYU Langone Health
2023
Ilene Beal Courageous Provider Award
Frances T. McCarthy, MS, RNC-NIC, Columbia University Irving Medical Center/ New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York, NY
Kenneth Pituch, MD, Michigan Partners for Children | C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI
Margaret Stewart Lindsay Courageous Provider Award
Marjorie Curran, MD, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA
Daniel Le, Therapeutic Musician, Coastal Kids Home Care, Salinas, CA
2022
Ilene Beal Courageous Provider Award
Erin Flanagan, MD, Advocate Children’s Hospital, Park Ridge, IL
Sara Perszyk, RN, BSN, CHPN, Empath Children’s Health, Clearwater, FL
Margaret Stewart Lindsay Courageous Provider Award
Anne Anderson, RN, CHPPN, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
David Sine, MD, Hinds Hospice, Hoffman Hospice, Kaweah Delta Hospice, CA
2021
Ilene Beal Courageous Provider Award
Hanna Epstein, DNP, CPNP, Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital, Charleston, SC
Carly D. Levy, MD, Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
Margaret Stewart Lindsay Courageous Provider Award
Monica Holland, PNP-BC, MSN, CHPPN, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Portland, OR
2020
Ilene Beal Courageous Provider Award
Kim Juanico, RN, BSN, CHPPN, Holtz Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL
2019
Patricia J.(Pat) O’Malley, MD, MassGeneral Hospital for Children