Alumni Award Honoree 2007

Distinguished Alumna: Dorothy E. (Dottie) Deremo
President and chief executive officer of Hospice of Michigan, former vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at Henry Ford Health System, apointee to both the Michigan Certificate of Need Commission and the Michigan Commission on End of Life Care.

Alumni Award Honorees 2006

Distinguished Alumna: Jeanette Wrona Klemczak, MSN, BSN
First Chief Nurse Executive in the history of the State of Michigan; veteran of 41 years in nursing that includes 20 years with the Michigan Department of Health.

Outstanding Leadership in Administration: Marybeth Lepczyk, MSN, RN, CS
Manager of the Detroit Medical Center Geriatric Center of Excellence; Coordinator of the DMC Nursing Innovation for Care of Healthy System Elders (NICHE).

Outstanding Clinical Practice: Gerald Burns, MSN, RN, CS, ACRN
Veteran of 31 years in nursing; Staff Nurse, Administrator and Certified Nurse Practitioner at Detroit Medical Center and leading advocate for HIV/AIDS patients in the Detroit area.

Outstanding Community Involvement: Stephanie Myers Schim, PhD, RN, APRN, CNAA, BC
Associate Professor at Wayne State University College of Nursing; driving force behind Interdisciplinary End-Of-Life Project and the Center for the Advancement of Palliative-care Excellence at Wayne State (CAPEWAYNE).

2007 Honoree

Dorothy E. (Dottie) Deremo

2006 Honorees

Jeanette Wrona Klemczak, MSN, BSN

Marybeth Lepczyk, MSN, RN, CS

Gerald Burns, MSN, RN, CS, ACRN

Stephanie Myers Schim, PhD, RN, APRN, CNAA, BC