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Extraordinary Healer Award Winner Announced!

Congratulations to Christine Wilson, RN, of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH, who was awarded CURE's 2009 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing at a ceremony in San Antonio on April 30th before more than 600 of her nurse peers.

As the winner, Wilson received a three-night “Spa Journey for Two” at Mii Amo Spa in beautiful Sedona, Arizona. Also present was Wilson’s former patient, Delaney Diggs and her mother Reneé La Forest, of Noblesville, Indiana who nominated Wilson for the award. Read their winning essay as well as a Q&A with Wilson in Readers' Forum in the Summer 2009 issue of CURE.

See video footage from the ceremony and clips from the live interview with Wilson courtesy of Johnson & Johnson's health channel.  

CURE also congratulates our two nurse finalists as well as the readers who nominated them!

FINALISTS:

Nadeen Robinson, RN, BSN, OCN
New York Presbyterian, the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
New York, New York
NOMINATED BY: Toby Bressler, of Brooklyn, New York

Marianne Sacks, RN, CCM
Aetna Patient Management
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
NOMINATED BY: Dianne Ericson, of Concord, North Carolina

For the third year, CURE presented readers with a unique opportunity to honor an oncology nurse who helped them heal. This year’s Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing resulted in an outpouring of nominations from patients, survivors, caregivers, and peers, describing the compassion, expertise, and helpfulness received from a special nurse on their oncology team.

The event was held during the Oncology Nursing Society’s 34th Annual Congress in San Antonio on April 30th, with Honorary Mistress of Ceremonies Peggy Fleming, Olympic gold medalist and breast cancer survivor.

Thank you again to everyone who participated in CURE’s 2009 Extraordinary Healer Award competition!

Check back on June 17th to read all of the finalist essays and see a full listing of nominees, pictures from this year’s event and more!

Supporters

This Event is made possible with financial support from Mii Amo and Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc..