2009 Wholeness of Life Awards Dinner Honored Extraordinary Health Care Professionals

Mary Barone RN (Hospital for Special Surgery); Edward V. Craig, MD, MPH (Attending Orthopedic Surgeon); Jo Hannafin, MD, PhD (Director of Orthopedic Research); Thomas Wickiewicz, MD (Attending Orthopedic Surgeon); Sr. Margaret Oettinger, OP (Director Pastoral Care Department)

Robert Della Rocca, M.D. (Ophthalmology Chairman, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center) and The Rev. Florine Thompson (Director of Pastoral Care) and colleagues

Edward Dinan (President & CEO, Lawrence Hospital); Dr. Peter Foley Rizzo (Patient Care Honoree); The Rev. Simmons Gardner (Director of Pastoral Care)

Kevin Browne (Director of Nursing for Pediatrics and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center); Margaret Burke (Administrative Vice President); Sr. Elaine Goodell (Patient Care Honoree, Staff Chaplain)

Geraldine Varrassi (Patient Care Honoree, Nursing Education Specialist, Lenox Hill Hospital); The Rev. Wilfredo Rodriguez (Director of Pastoral Care)

Jim Foy (President & CEO, St. John’s Riverside Hospital); Irene Murphy (Patient Care Honoree, Nursing Director); The Rev. Dr. Sarah Fogg (Director of Pastoral Care); Lynn Nelson (Executive Vice President, Patient Services/Chief Operating Officer)

Amy Horrocks (Vice President for Hospital Operations, Medical Services, NYU Langone Medical Center); Joan Dauharje (Director of Patient Centered Care); Dr. Anna Pavlick (Patient Care Honoree, Director, Melanoma Program); Dr. Bernard Birnbaum (Senior Vice President, Vice Dean & Chief of Hospital Operations); Sarah Byrne (Staff Chaplain)

Jean Monica Roper, C.N.A. (The Silvercrest Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation) and The Rev. Dr. David Wentroble (Director of Pastoral Care)

Pauline Lesage, BA, M.D., LL.M (Medical Director, Jacob Perlow Hospice, Beth Israel Medical Center) with her colleagues: Father Damian Umeokeke, BIMC; Marilyn Bookbinder, RN, PhD, DON DPMPC; Joyce Palmieri, RN, NM 4 Karpas; Allessandra Strada, Phd, Psychologist DPMPC; Dr John Brechtl, Husband of Dr Lesage; Dr Pauline Lesage; Ebtesam Ahmed, ParmD DPMPC; Chaplain Eileen McKeon Pesek, Director of Pastoral Care & Education, BIMC;  Rabbi Sheldon Goldsmith, Assistant Director Of Pastoral Care & Education, BIMC

Mimi Lim, R.N., MPA, CIC, NEA-BC (Clinical Director of Patient Care Services, New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens) with her family and colleagues including Rabbi David M. Keehn (Director of Pastoral Care)

Raffaela Pia (Sr. Director, Patient Care Services, Emergency Department, North Shore University Hospital); Lisa Breiman ( Director of Volunteer Services); Joanne Bentson (Assoc. Executive Director); Dr. Gary Rudolph (Associate Chair, Emergency Medicine); Marta Stepan Cassara;  Dr. Michael Cassara  (Physician, Emergency Medicine); Dr. Andrew Sama (Vice President, Emergency Medicine, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System); The Rev. Jon Overvold (Director of Pastoral Care and Education, NSUH)

Lawrence and Sheila Toal with Jeanne Lee

Sister Elaine Goodell

Rabbi Harlan Wechsler and Naomi Friedland-Wechsler

The Rev. Dr. Walter J. Smith, S.J., T. Michael Long, Thomas Rochon, and Dr. John Templeton, Jr.

Tobi Kahn, The Rev. Dr. Walter J. Smith, S.J., and Rabbi Mychal Springer

Dr. Jean and Dr. David Case

Dr. Anne Moore and Dr. Arnold Lisio

James and Antonia Gorton

Gladys and Carter Dinkeloo

Arien Schitkamp, David Stewart, Janice Levy, and George Pine

Laura Landy and Robert Corman

Dr. Kathleen Foley

Jeanne and Chloe Downes

Lawrence Alleva, Elizabeth and Jude Curtis, and Brian Foreman

Catherine Long and W. Jack MacNeish, Jr.

Jesse and Nicholas Haines

Michelle Raisbeck and Jay Hickman

Nienke Padberg and Tasabbur Hasan

Sabina Theodore, William G. Spears, and Maria T. Spears

David Lewittes, Kip O'Neill, and Judith Lewittes

Harrison J. and Diana Goldin

Elizabeth Baltz

Jill Totenberg and Christopher Grisanti