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In 2020, as a brand-new Lead APP at PAH, Beth was integral in the smooth transition of the SCCS APP service reestablishing the SICU at PAH. Currently, Beth is being mentored by the Penn Center for Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania and the School of Engineering to work with software engineers in the development and implementation of “Pick It Supplies on Demand.” This software application will improve supply management for providers and nurses through an online inventory platform with an aim to decrease waste, improve workflow and optimize the speed and functionality of the supply room.

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At a stage of her career when she could have rested on her laurels, Angela challenged herself by pursuing an additional advanced degree. AND she places patients and families at-ease with her warm manner and insightful, open-ended questions, meeting them where they are and making them feel safer during one of the most vulnerable periods of their lives.

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Alanna has been supportive of her APP colleagues and has helped lead the team in several excellent collaborations in quality improvement and research. Alanna recently completed her DNP degree at Drexel University. For her DNP project titled “Early Detection of Decompensated Heart Failure; Implementation of a Process for Remote Heart Failure Monitoring Utilizing Implantable Cardiac Devices “, Alanna coordinated a clinical project between The EP team and the Heart failure team to utilize information from implantable devices to detect early decompensation of heart failure.

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Renee Donnelly: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Renee Donnelly: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Renee stands out for her incredible work ethic and endless advocacy for patients. She is frequently coordinating patient care both before and after office hours, on weekends, and her days off – not because she is asked to, but due to her compassion for her patients.

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Daria Indeck: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Daria Indeck: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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As one of the first Advanced Practice Providers on the Trauma team, Daria naturally fell into mentoring and onboarding new hires. Her love for teaching extends beyond our new team members on the team. She serves as a preceptor for both Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner students who rotate on our service. Daria’s love of teaching extends beyond our students. She has worked hard as the ICU Lead APP on our team to form a lecture series for the Trauma Neuro ICU nurses.

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She has proven herself as an invaluable asset to our service and our high acuity patients, surpassing many of her peers in clinical and leadership skills.” AND “Her peers recognize her for consistently going above and beyond, being responsive, proactive, and humble."

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She is a strong and dedicated provider. Amy has been a key part of the growth of the program since joining the group in 2015 as the inaugural NP. Patients and team members alike recognize Amy’s excellent care. A patient’s daughter commented, “I can feel how much Amy genuinely cares about my parents and truly wants the best outcome for my dad. My dad is fragile medically. I believe her attentiveness, caring nature, and diligence has kept my dad out of the hospital and ED on numerous occasions.

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In 2021, Amy set out to develop the first UPHS Advanced Practice (AP) Fellowship in Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing as well as Advanced Practice and Emergency Department leadership. Through dynamic, comprehensive, and diverse learning experiences, the goal of this program is to provide the AP Fellows the technical, cognitive, and critical thinking skills essential to provide patient-centered care that is safe and effective.

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She attends education sessions and is always the first to volunteer for any procedure.” AND “Although Allegra has significantly less experience than most of our team members, she is one of the most trusted providers on our team

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Alison Purcell: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Alison Purcell: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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First, Ali is the Suite Champion for her clinical team, providing leadership and administrative oversight for interdisciplinary team-based care. Clinically, Alison is also a stand-out primary care provider. Alison cares for a large cohort of sometimes medically and socially complex patients. She is trusted by her physician peers and a go-to for the other NPs within the department. She is also beloved by her patients.

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Adriana has been responsible for developing and leading the Penn Neuroscience APP program at Lourdes since its inception in 2020. From a group of 3 providers in February 2020, she has recruited and trained 9 new providers who provide 24-7 clinical care for neuroscience patients at Lourdes.

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Monica Pammer: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Monica Pammer: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Monica created and launched the Atrial Fibrillation Center at CCH in 2021. The Atrial Fibrillation Center is a specialized focus and comprehensive approach to patient-centered care for those with atrial fibrillation which expedites patient care to first-line treatment and catheter ablation. She fosters her colleagues and team members to engage in hospital committees and leads by example in demonstrating self-advocacy

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Kimberly created an evidence-based acute agitation algorithm designed to assist clinicians in providing the most efficient and effective medications when a patient is demonstrating behaviors that could put themselves, other patients, or staff at risk of harm. Kimberly’s work on this project has assisted other providers to know what medications to use and when, which has prevented episodes of workplace violence. It is near impossible to truly quantify the many significant positive impacts Kimberly’s clinical expertise and excellence in practice bring.

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Monica served as the Chair on the “Evening/Swing Rounding Project” which piloted a sign out/communication pathway to improve nursing/provider relationships and reduce the number of nonurgent messaging from nursing…The hospitalist group and nursing rolled out proactive night rounding as a direct result of this pilot, which is still a part of the night Hospitalist workflow. Monica is an active member in the medication assisted treatment of opioid use disorder. Monica herself has completed training to gain X waiver certification…She was one of the inaugural APPs at Chester County Hospital to obtain this certification in 2018 and later became co-chair on the Opioid Prescribing Stewardship Work Group. She is the only nurse practitioner at CCH who serves on this Task Force.

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Her exceptional skills, knowledge, and compassionate nature have not only earned her the respect and admiration of her colleagues but have also made her an invaluable asset to Penn Medicine.” AND “She was a panelist on rapid fire ECG cases (ECG strips with critical/don't miss diagnoses) at the State-of-the-Art Arrhythmia Symposium 2022. She also presented two different abstract posters at the Heart Rhythm Society 2023, and she will be a panelist in the State-of-the-Art Arrhythmia Symposium 2023 highlighting the use of digital health in electrophysiology.

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Christine has successfully implemented Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) within the otorhinolaryngology department. She is a highly sought-after national speaker at conferences, course coordinator for senior-level undergraduate nursing students at Penn and has played a crucial role in developing and implementing digital preoperative patient education within ENT department.

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Cliff has already been recognized by our team twice in his two years with us; first in 2021, receiving the HUP departmental Patient Safety award, recognizing his dedication to patient safety in actions and provision of care, and then in 2022, as the HUP ED APP of the year.” AND “He wholeheartedly embraces the opportunity to share his knowledge and experience, serving as a role model to those around him

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Denise never turns down an opportunity to teach. Her experience in caring for patients shows through her clinical skills when caring for patients. Denise contributes to a culture of interprofessional teamwork by recruiting and participating in Penn Neurosurgery research program. She is a mentor to other APPs beginning their careers in Neurosurgery.

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Eileen Maloney-Wilensky: Research & Scholarship

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Eileen Maloney-Wilensky: Research & Scholarship

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Eileen has enriched UPENN in all her interactions and has benefitted all levels of trainees and faculty. She has been a patient safety advocate for her entire career and facilitates the safe conduct of research that improves patient care and treatment options. She always maintains an appropriate demeanor and remains professional even under stressful conditions.

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Erin McMenamin: Research & Scholarship Awardee

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Erin McMenamin: Research & Scholarship Awardee

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Dr. McMenamin has demonstrated the curiosity to ask important questions, the courage to accept opportunities and not accept the status quo, and the tenacity to stay the course through daunting and inevitable challenges.

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Frank maintains strong relationships throughout other disciplines. He is an excellent collaborator. Frank works tirelessly with others to mentor and provide educational support. He also does this with incredibly good humor and positive energy.

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As a physician assistant, Haley has made significant contributions to both the ED and the Emergency Department Observation Unit (EDOU) at HUP. In these clinical areas, she showcases her proficiency not only in providing exceptional patient care in the ED, but also throughout their care continuum in the Observation Unit. Her versatility and adaptability in managing complex cases in high-pressure situations have been instrumental in providing the highest quality care to our patients. She is a model team member and collaborates with all members of the clinical care team in a professional and effective manner to ensure her patients receive the highest quality care.

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Another thing that just impressed me immensely was her ability to have a full hearted, emotionally engaged attitude that was sincere, authentic, grounded, and secure. Completely apart from her clinical skills, she is a person of deep integrity-what you see is what she is. There is a solid constant reliability to her character. She instills trust. She is as dependable as any person I’ve ever met and does so from a position of someone growing.

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Within a year of onboarding, Julia gained the confidence and the skills to begin precepting ED advanced practice provider fellows rotating through the Observation Unit. She is organized and diligent and will always seek educational opportunities to enhance the skillsets of both herself, and the fellows and new staff that she is training.” “Julia is quick to jump in during clinical emergencies and supports the interdisciplinary team in any way she can during challenging situations. Her ability to act as a leader and role model undoubtedly leaves an everlasting impression on the staff she mentors.

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Kaylee provides exemplary care to a complex, high risk heart failure population, and has developed niche expertise in patients with preserved ejection fraction heart failure, and in particular cardiac amyloid. Kaylee is eager to fully leverage the rapidly evolving guidelines in this form of heart failure to offer all her patients the most contemporary and evidenced based treatments for heart failure. She is highly reliable and empowers her patients to take control of their condition. She is eager to take advantage of any learning opportunity to better the care of her patients. Patients all identify her as an integral, if not central part of their care team.

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She manages monthly meetings with the APP and RN staff to address operational, program and educational needs. She schedules the APP staff and has creatively managed to address work life balance for her team. For example, she successfully implemented a hybrid-staffing model during the pandemic, which has continued for some staff due to the success of the model. She successfully advocated for a creative staffing model with 10-hour shifts, which has led to the retention of most of her current staff. She is responsible for hiring, onboarding and ongoing training of the APP staff and she has built an inclusive culture for her team to work within.

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Since joining the Penn Geriatrics division in 2017, Laura has worn many clinical hats, from doing telephone-based triage, care management and urgent visits in our two outpatient Geriatric clinics, to providing direct clinical care to the frailest of frail at two Penn Geriatrics nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. More recently, since June 2020, Laura has been functioning as an independent practitioner at Penn Radnor Geriatrics. The glowing feedback she receives from the PMX surveys support this: she is “lovely;” “professional, pleasant, and knowledgeable;” “empathetic and clinical at the same time;” asking “questions beyond just the typical medical-related and was very attentive to my responses.

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She has been a fearless co-leader in developing the APP Pilot Mentorship Program which accepted its first cohort of mentees and mentors in Spring 2023. While I have only captured some of the amazing accomplishments of Liza, she clearly illustrates a member of the Penn Community who continues to move our profession forward. She has strived to improve the onboarding process, clinical efficiency, work-life balance, and retention of staff, by better understanding her colleagues’ clinical, career and personal goals.

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Given the criteria of the Clinical Excellence Award, our nomination focused primarily on Ms. Bonanni’s leadership in the launching treatment with a newly FDA approved therapeutic, belzutifan (Welirig) as part of our Von Hippel Lindau Syndrome Comprehensive Clinical Care Center (CCCC). It is impossible to overstate how wonderful Ms. Bonanni is as a colleague. She is collegial, universally pleasant, always upbeat, thorough and diligent, up to date on all the pertinent literature about the diseases in patients she sees, and cares deeply about each and every patient. She truly has a wealth of amazing clinical knowledge, which is of inestimable value to our group.

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Megan Carullo is an example of clinical excellence in every domain. She is the perfect blend of heart, hands, and mind that one seeks in healthcare provider. Megan is amazing - VERY quickly became a central part of our Urogyn division and took over responsibility for patients as an independent provider. Patients LOVE her. The rest of the team (attending, fellows, nurses, MAs, admin) find working with her a joy. Her clinical judgement is spot-on and dependable.  She quickly became an indispensable part of our Urogyn team.

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Beyond providing exceptional care to our patients every day, Meghan seeks to improve the care of patients at the program and system level. She has worked on initiatives to improve the surgical consents for our patients, she has created literature for our patients to help them through their cancer care, and she participates in our Surgery Quality Committee.” “Meghan remains and integral member of the Melanoma Patient Symposium where she sits on expert panels, discussing complex cancer topics.

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Mia is an eager and willing teammate; she’s quick to recognize when another APP may need help in their care area and offers to share the load. She’s similarly an excellent preceptor and mentor for APP students rotating through our ED, potential new hires shadowing, and APPs onboarding from both other Penn Med EDs and outside hospitals. Asa former ED fellow herself, she’s a great resource for our current cohort, both on shift and teaching them during their sim labs.

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Nicole has worked diligently using evidence-based approaches to improve clinical systems in the practice. When we identified care gaps in colorectal cancer and breast cancer screening due to the Covid pandemic, Nicole worked tirelessly to identify those patients who had fallen behind. Nicole helped us set up a pilot program to improve diabetes care using a new disease management provider. This required weekly meetings with the disease management team as we worked to identify appropriate patients.

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She is outstanding as a clinician and her dedication to patient care is unrivaled. Pat has also had leadership and committee roles at the Division of General Internal Medicine level over the past several years. It is routine for Pat to visit one of her patients in the hospital after hours, on her way home.

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Rachel strives and succeeds, to maintain her clinical practice at the cutting edge of best practices. She serves as a clinical expert to colleagues within the department and she is often sought out for informal consults. Rachel utilizes her superb communication and teaching skills to share knowledge with other providers and students.

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At the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, she has pioneered in creating outpatient pathways for all patient's vascular disease. Shawn worked on several Epic templates for vascular patients to improve efficiency in clinic and ensure proper documentation.

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Caring for hand transplant patients during this time inspired her to apply for a position in our hand/extremity practice as an APP. In these 3 years, she has gained tremendous knowledge in hand and plastic surgery. She is seen as an expert in the subspecialty in our division and has given multiple presentations to our clinical staff and more broadly to the health system on some of our interesting hand surgery patients.

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She has been leading the PASSPoRT program…In her role as president of the program, she provides oversight and organization for shadowing experiences throughout the health system for college students interested in becoming Physician Assistants and to further interest in the profession with the next generation of healthcare professionals.

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Amy’s transformational style of leading, helped to recruit and retain a transplant surgery APP team of 11 APPs, growing from an initial team of 4. In addition, Amy moved this large team to the pavilion and a 24/7 model of care.

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She has demonstrated a deep devotion to education from early in her career and is committed to continued development of her skills in education and mentorship. She now serves as an undisputed leader in our group, driving the educational goals of the APP fellowship program, mentoring colleagues at all levels, and inspiring others to rise to her exceptional level.

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Anna has created a successful MCS education program and co-developed an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) curriculum, both of which are now the foundation and mandatory education for caring for these challenging patients” AND “Anna has demonstrated excellence, drive, maturity, and ingenuity in her time at Penn, which has positively influenced countless patients and coworkers.

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We collaborated with the Director of Advanced Practice, Office of Medical Affairs, and the Chair of ENT to change the available procedural options for ALL ENT APPs across the system. She is a tireless advocate for her patients, a patient teacher of our trainees, and a trustworthy partner and colleague. Caitlin is, without question, the most exceptional advanced practice provider I have ever worked with during my ten years at Penn.

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Coleen Kucharczuk: Selected National APP Award Nominee

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Coleen Kucharczuk: Selected National APP Award Nominee

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One notable accomplishment is the establishment of a standardized communication process for interdisciplinary bedside rounds through secure messaging to ensure availability of the patient's nurse for rounds. Colleen encourages bedside presentations during rounds, which increases patients and caregiver's opportunity to engage in discussion, which ultimately enhances their overall experience. Colleen is as discerning with herself as she is with others and is motivated intrinsically to reflect and improve. She has made lasting impact on her team, Penn Medicine and sets the bar high for APPs on a national level.

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She is a talented educator and is able to explain the pathophysiology and complicated surgical techniques specific to the transplant population to others. AND Dhara has also started our Surgery Social Committee and has planned numerous successful out of work activities to improve our team dynamic and break down silos that were unintentionally created during COVID.

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Her presence at work is more than physical, as her confidence transcends through her colleagues and patients.” AND “Ellen takes a time off from work once a year to attend the World Blindness Outreach service trip, in which she volunteers as a clinical nurse and bilingual translator to provide healthcare for those in need in her global Community.

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As a brand new CRNP Emilie was already deftly able to handle complex patient related problems.  She has been a godsend to our practice and is able to independently manage even the most complex patients.  Furthermore, she has been able to see some selected new outpatients as well and set them up for the appropriate surgical procedure allowing our breast cancer patients to be scheduled for surgery far earlier than would otherwise be possible.

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Since January 2022, she has implemented monthly “nursing huddles” based on various topics that have been identified by our team and nursing leadership that need education solutions. Emily personally presents these huddles to nursing on multiple days, to both day and night shift, to reach as many staff as possible. One of the huddles focused on different scenarios that nursing would report to the APP. Emily emphasized having nursing anticipate what pertinent information the APP would expect to receive about the patient if that scenario was being reported. This focused huddle has significantly improved communication between our APP team and our nursing colleagues.

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One example of Ilaina’s ability to create meaningful impact in clinical practice includes a self-directed project with her surgery team, where Ilaina established standardized postoperative flap reconstruction protocols to decrease surgical takebacks, improve length of stay and increase overall patient safety for her specific patient population. Ilaina has consistently demonstrated her ability to identify gaps in processes and lead quality improvement initiatives through evidence-based research that impacts clinical practice.

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Katie participates in our team’s Ultrasound-Guided IV and Phlebotomy Training program and provides one on one practical teaching for her colleagues. She is co-chair in coordinating the internal medicine clinical rotation for physician assistant and nurse practitioner students and has implemented a two-preceptor model where a learner is shared by two clinical coaches.

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Kathlyn Schumacher: Research & Scholarship

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Kathlyn Schumacher: Research & Scholarship

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Her dedication to evidence-based and safe practice is further demonstrated in her work updating literature, specifically on the topic of blood sampling. Kathlyn has worked extensively on the topic of retrograde intravenous blood collection as an alternative to arterial blood sampling in research participants. Kathlyn is an unsung hero, performing much invisible work that is critical to the success of clinical trials, and ultimately to the advancement of medical science and patient treatments.

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Katie spearheaded the design, piloting, and implementation of a new provider role to ensure smooth transitions in care across the continuum. Her role and its success have also been described at a national meeting. Katie has taken her expanded knowledge base and is formally educating the APPs, Hospitalist attendings and consulting Fellow physicians. Across the board these interdisciplinary team members have identified Katie as an essential team member due to her excellent clinical acumen.

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Kristen was faced with the formidable challenge of starting a new APP team in a department that had not previously utilized inpatient APPs to cover three separate services in the midst of a global pandemic. Frankly, this probably would have completely failed with anyone else, but Kristen had a clear vision from day one of what this group could be and how she could build it.

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Mackenzie Burke: Selected National APP Emerging Leader Nominee

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Mackenzie Burke: Selected National APP Emerging Leader Nominee

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In her tenure as a Penn APP, Mackenzie has been paramount in revamping the Transplant Surgery APP orientation program and the approach in which we convey education. Mackenzie revised the transplant education binder and continues to do so on an ongoing basis to ensure an evidence-based approach to providing care to the Transplant Surgery patients to ensure all new team members are practicing with the most up to date information. Mackenzie created a structured orientation curriculum including weekly objectives and goals, technical skills, and learning expectations while on orientation.

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Maggie has worked incredibly hard to develop the role of the Surgical APP at HUP Cedar as well as to leverage the Quality Improvement (QI) work group to make significant changes to improve the care we are providing to patients at HUP Cedar.

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Maryann approaches her job with two extremely strong qualities in a clinician – a true care for her patients and their experiences, coupled with a questioning attitude to ensure our practices and procedures are always in their best interests. She has a keen eye for safety and providing quality care and has contributed to many of our policy reviews.

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She has shown an excellent trajectory from a novice APP to proficient and now to almost an expert in her area of expertise. Her impressive improvement is fueled by her motivation to learn and ability to identify her knowledge gaps, and seek learning opportunities to further increase her knowledge, and improve, or learn new clinical skills. She now serves as one of the new APP and APP student mentors and preceptors on the Cardiology Advanced Practice Service (CAP Service).

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Since 2019 Regina has been a co-chair of the Women’s Health Advanced Practice Provider Shared Governance Committee, and through this committee she is able to address the specific needs of the Women’s Health APP’s and have an active role in making those changes. Recently Regina also took on a new leadership role on the unit as the Lead Advanced Practice Provider for Inpatient Women’s Health Advanced Practice Providers. As the lead APP Regina helps to oversee the onboarding, scheduling, and day-to-day operations of Advanced Practice Providers in inpatient women’s health.

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She has worked to develop an education curriculum for our antepartum nurses, many of whom are med/surg nurses, to help them increase knowledge and comfort level for the most frequent obstetrical complications our patients are admitted for. Sheri is the clinical backbone of the antepartum team.

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Two years ago, I asked Yessenia to accept a stretch assignment and become the Co-Chair of the APP Education Committee at HUP. Not only did she accept, but she has been doing an exceptional job leading this work. Yessenia and her colleague have built an entire playbook of how to run the various activities that the Education Committee leads as well as determining a new method of marketing committee work to the APP community through advertising during APP Grand Rounds.

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Ylenia Quiaoit: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Ylenia Quiaoit: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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She has created a collegial and warm working structure in a high stake and high-risk environment which values the quality and individuality of each APP and allows for individual expression of skill set while moving the overall quality of care to a state-of-the-art level. She had the foresight to champion a fellowship program to create a pipeline for future trainees to become future employees in a competitive environment.

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He has a strong interest, determination, and dedication to his professional excellence, delivery of safe, quality, cost-effective, evidence- based, and patient/family centered care. He provides encouragement, motivation, has the unique ability to ignite or fuel the APP students’ interest in APP education and practice, especially in cardiology.

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Beyond her dedication to her own growth, Jaclyn is also committed to supporting the growth and development of her colleagues. She actively engages in mentorship, leadership, and educational support, serving as a source of inspiration and guidance for her peers at Lancaster General Health.

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She has taught new APPs in LGHs onboarding series and the neurology and ICU RNs regarding stroke practices. Outside of her hospital-based role she holds an adjunct position as a clinical instructor for PA College of Health Sciences.

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Jennifer was instrumental in developing a CRNA steering committee, allowing improvement in self-governance within the anesthesia department. She has worked to develop policies governing the CRNAs that have resulted in staff satisfaction, retention, and recruitment, thus reducing turnover and maintaining a high level of quality-of-care delivery. Jennifer serves as the Student Nurse Anesthetist (SRNA) clinical coordinator for LGH.

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Jessica has taught new APPs in LGH’s “Transition to practice” series and during the Hot Topics conference to seasoned APPs and physicians alike. She participates in intra-professional ID rounds with infectious control which includes lectures and shadowing. Outside of her clinical role, she holds and adjunct position at her alma matter Thomas Jefferson University.

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As an accomplished NP working in our cardiology risk factor clinic, Joette has contributed to furthering new knowledge through her participation as a sub-investigator on multiple lipid trials through the Research Institute at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. Joette is a tireless advocate for improving the health of our community, both in advanced lipid management and dietary and exercise recommendations.

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As the Trauma APP lead, Kelly is responsible for development of the Advanced Practice Providers within the trauma program. She assisted in the development of Surgical Resident orientation by creating a Surgical Resident Handbook and has been involved in the assimilation of the surgical residents into the Trauma & Acute Care Surgery division which was critical piece to LGH becoming a level I Trauma Center. Kelly, along with her team, have most recently created an eight-week APP externship program where they educate, mentor, and train Advanced Practice Providers from Penn Highlands Dubois.

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She is one of the true pillars of the Lancaster Neurosurgery practice and her value to the team cannot be overstated. She deserves to be recognized for her continued efforts in providing the best care possible to the patients of LGH.

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Lisa is a servant leader and demonstrated her skills and humility while serving as a past President of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses. This is an organization she has also participated on their board of directors. She has a multitude of accolades, but one that stands out was at the 2016 Heart Failure Society of America national meeting in which she received a standing ovation from approximately 1,000 attendees when she won the award for leadership in the field of heart failure.

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Her Gastroenterology knowledge base is superior, rivaling that of some junior attending physicians. More impressive though, is her affability. Even a busy inpatient consult list and an overbooked outpatient scheduled are no match for Shrina’s calm demeanor.

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She was instrumental in starting the Pulmonary Vascular Disease program at PPMC, and continues to advance clinical practice here. She has collaborated on research leading to over 25 research papers and over 50 abstracts on pulmonary hypertension (PH). She speaks nationally for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, and is a true patient advocate.

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Colleen has organized the team’s efforts to participate in various volunteer opportunities. She has the team involved in food drives, toy donations and other volunteer activities.” AND “She is currently working as a member of the diuretic protocol workup.

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Ms. Kuhns has taken a passionate interest in advancing the ability to educate patients about their disease, and their upcoming surgeries, based on the theory that a better-informed patient will have better outcomes. She continues the work in this space that she began over a decade ago. This includes educational videos for patients, for which she has been awarded grant support. These videos are frequently viewed and used by other providers, serving as outstanding education resources within the APP, physician, and nursing community.

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Kathleen has spearheaded multiple quality improvement projects in the Surgical ICU. Her most recent work involved an evidence-based project of prescribing hypertonic saline infusions to trauma patients with open abdomens, to assist in laparotomy closure. After months of research and data refinement, she was able to write a new clinical practice guideline for our team.

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Katie has been working with the Heart Failure CET team and has reviewed charts of patients readmitted within 30 days to help the team identify medical comorbidities that put patients at risk for readmission. The PPMC cardiology team has the lowest readmission rate in the health system for Heart failure. She has led the CET team in the protocol for 6-minute walk test for Heart failure patients. This assessment is completed on admission and discharge as a way of measuring functional status of heart failure patients. Katie has been instrumental in organizing the Cardiology APP Team in evidence-based practice for heart failure.

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As a nurse practitioner with the heart failure team, Margaret is a clinical expert in Heart failure. She is an essential member of the Heart Failure team which includes patients on advanced therapies such as VADs and home Milrinone therapy.

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Nicole indirectly assists the Observation Committee with improving geographical rounding by utilizing the rounding tool created to decrease time rounds takes and increase number of safe patient discharges before noon. Nicole understood the expectations of the scripting, never once gave pushback, and improved not only the flow of rounds, but continuously helps to keep the pace and efficiency of rounds.

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Tony serves several key roles. He is the sole nurse practitioner on the Penn Presbyterian Neurology service. He has an empathetic bedside manner and an ability to fluidly adapt that instantly puts patients and caregivers at ease. He has consummate knowledge of our protocols and processes.

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Over the course of her four-year tenure with Penn Medicine Home Health and Penn Home Palliative Care, April has transformed our work and elevated our collective practice to the benefit of Penn Medicine’s patients and families.

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Donna Miles: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Donna Miles: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Donna has taken a strong interest in the struggles we face with our hemodialysis patients. She has written to her legislator regarding the barriers in finding dialysis chairs for the patients. She has shown dedication to her patients as a strong advocate for their well-being. She strives to educate herself so she can continue to grow as an APP.

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Marygrace has shown all of the attributes that are the key qualities recognized by this award. As members of the internal medicine team, we are tasked with caring for a diverse population of patients from all types of socioeconomic backgrounds and with complicated pathology. In this challenging role, Marygrace’s attention to detail and diligence truly shines.

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Tracey frequently will precept nurse practitioner students from various universities. She also encourages the other nurse practitioners within the department to precept students. As the lead APP of the group, Tracey has been able to reform the hospitalist APP service. Historically, considered the “non-teaching service,” we now have multiple students and new hires that we are constantly providing education to on this service.

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Jennifer Weldon: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Jennifer Weldon: Clinical Excellence Awardee

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Throughout her career, Jen has consistently been a pioneer and early Advanced Practice Provider lead in her clinical sites and has been recognized as an outstanding clinical provider. Mentorship and education have been a passion for Jen, and she's devoted a lot of energy to giving back educationally.

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Shannon Easton: Rising Star Selected Nominee

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Shannon Easton: Rising Star Selected Nominee

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From the moment she arrived, it was clear she was committed to providing excellent care to her patients, and in the mentorship and stewardship of the professionals who work alongside her. Always seeking collaboration, Shannon was named APP Lead on a multi-disciplinary team to improve the discharge process and experience. She researched barriers and successes across other surgical and medical service lines and synthetized her findings to present to the committee. She communicated with insurance companies and home care agencies to broaden ideas and solutions to ensure the goals of the committee to get patients home were a success.

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In his practice of emergency medicine and in life, Tim is humble and possesses a strong moral foundation that guides his excellent care of his patients and trust and friendship with his fellow team members. Tim’s work ethic is unparalleled. I cannot say enough about the quality of this emergency medicine clinician and individual.

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Victoria has played a pivotal role as the lead in an improvement project directly related to her service as a psychiatric nurse practitioner working in Hall-Mercer Community Mental Health Center’s juvenile detention program. In addition to her own pursuit of excellence, Victoria goes the extra mile to support and promote the clinical growth and development of others.