Call for nominations: 
2025 Kathleen Kinlaw Hero in Healthcare Ethics Award

This award recognizes an individual or a group associated with a Healthcare Ethics Consortium member organization for exemplary achievements in the field of healthcare ethics by fostering a culture of ethics within their healthcare organizations and/or communities. 

The activities for which the individual or group may be nominated include, but are not limited to:

• An innovative and effective educational program or initiative – within the organization or in the community – that has had an impact on fostering a greater awareness of ethics in the organization/community;
• Effective intervention in a complex ethical dilemma;
• Advocacy for promotion of ethics in healthcare through legislative or regulatory initiatives;
• Development of policies or processes that enhance ethical practice within the organization;
• Longtime commitment to ethics in healthcare at the institutional, local, state, or national level as reflected in institutional committee work, active participation in the work of HEC, leadership positions in professional associations or groups, contributions to ethics knowledge through publication of articles, chapters, books, in the field of healthcare ethics, etc…

Eligibility

An individual who is an employee of or directly associated with an HEC partner organization; a team of individuals associated with an HEC partner organization; or an HEC partner member organization. 

Application Process

Self nominations and nominations of others are welcome. A completed nomination form (attached) should be submitted.  A brief statement is to be included describing the specific work of the individual, team, or organization in the area of healthcare ethics and its impact on the culture of ethics within the organization.

Award

The recipient of this award will be honored at the HEC Annual Conference on March 24/25, 2025.

Deadline

Applications for the 2024 award must be received by Friday, January 10, 2025.

Additional Questions?

Please contact Mary Rachel Henderson: mrtayl2@emory.edu or Kathy Kinlaw: kkinlaw@emory.edu.

Previous Hero in Healthcare Ethics Award Winners

2023:  W. Jeffrey Flowers, DMin, BCC and The Grady Ethics Committee

2022:  Wellstar Ethics Program

2021:   Richard W. “Rick” Sams II, MD, MA

2019:   Carol Babcock, MFT

2018:   Anna Skold, MD

2017:   Ann D. Critz, MD

2016:   Martha Jordan, RN and Murtaza Cassoobhoy, MD

2015:   Ethics Team at Memorial Health University Medical Center

2014   Richard Cohen, MD and Karen Trotochaud, RN

2013:   Carl Hug, MD

2012:   Ansley Barton, JD, MA

2011:   William Sexson, MD

2010:  Charity Scott, JD

2009: Nicholas Krawiecki, MD

2008: Render Davis, MHA

2007: Bernard Scoggins, MD and Mary Ann Bowman Beil, MTS

2006: Gary Batchelor, DMin, BCC

2005: Woody Spackman, MDiv