Extraordinary Healer Award
Winner Announced!

Karen Marchman (right) is announced as the winner of CURE's 2008 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing with essayist Sheila S. McThenia by her side. Photo by Bob Brown

Congratulations to Karen Marchman, RN, OCN, CCRP, of Florida Hospital Cancer Institute in Orlando, who was awarded CURE's 2008 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing at a ceremony in Philadelphia on May 15 before more than 500 of her nurse peers.

As the winner, Marchman received a three-night “Spa Refresher for Two” at Lake Austin Spa Resort in Austin, Texas, recently named the No. 1 destination spa in North America by readers of Condé Nast Traveler. Also present was Sheila S. McThenia, of Oviedo, Florida, who nominated Marchman for the award. Read McThenia's winning essay as well as a Q&A with Marchman in Readers' Forum in the Summer 2008 issue of CURE.

	Top row: Patricia Nee, Sheila S. McThenia, RaeAnn Thomas, and art competition winner Nora Massignotti-Cortese; bottom row: finalist Linda K. Huber, winner Karen Marchman, Honorary Mistress of Ceremonies Loretta Swit, finalist Randy Wecker, and Ortho Biotech President Kim Taylor. Photo by Bob Brown

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

FINALISTS:

Linda K. Huber, RN, AP, CS, MH/CNS
St. Luke’s Hospital
Kansas City, Missouri
Nominated by: Patricia Nee, of Independence, Missouri
Read Patricia Nee’s essay about Linda Huber

Randy Wecker, BSN, OCN
Marshfield Clinic
Marshfield, Wisconsin
Nominated by: RaeAnn Thomas, of Marshfield, Wisconsin
Read RaeAnn Thomas’s essay about Randy Wecker

HONORABLE MENTION:

Marilyn Bruderer, APRN
VAMC Manchester
Manchester, New Hampshire
Nominated by: Charles A. Rossier, of Merrimack, New Hampshire
Read Charles Rossier’s essay about Marilyn Bruderer

Congratulations to Nora Massignotti-Cortese, winner of CURE's 2008 Extraordinary Healer Art Competition, for her art submission, "After the Diagnosis"

For the second 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, and caregivers, describing the compassion, expertise, and helpfulness received from a special nurse on their oncology team.

	Over 500 nurses joined CURE in recognizing this year’s Extraordinary Healer Award finalists and celebrating the field of oncology nursing. Photo by Bob Brown

The event was held during the Oncology Nursing Society’s 33rd Annual Congress in Philadelphia on May 15, with Honorary Mistress of Ceremonies Loretta Swit, award-winning actress from M*A*S*H*, television’s most honored series.

Thanks again to everyone who participated in CURE’s 2008 Extraordinary Healer Award competition!

View a full listing of Extraordinary Healer nominees.

Made possible with financial support from Ortho Biotech Products, L.P.

and Lake Austin Spa Resort