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 2011 Terrah L. Foster, PhD RN CPNP
Terrah L. Foster, PhD RN CPNP, is an Assistant Professor at the Vanderbilt University (VU) School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Foster completed her Bachelor of Science at Jacksonville State University (1999) and her Master of Science in Nursing at VU (2001). After gaining several years of experience as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, she continued her education and completed her PhD in Nursing Science at VU (2008).
Her research interests include pediatric palliative care, particularly legacy-making and continuing bonds in children living with life-threatening conditions and their families. Dr. Foster has published her work in Death Studies, Journal of Palliative and Supportive Care, Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, Journal of Palliative Nursing, and Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing. She has been recognized for her scholarly activities with several awards such as the International Palliative Medicine Symposium Outstanding Poster Award and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Outstanding Research Abstract Award. She was named a College of Palliative Care Research Scholar by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Foster is also actively involved in her community, serving as a volunteer with international medical organizations to assist underserved children and families.
 2010 Maryjo Prince-Paul, PhD, APRN, ACHPN®
Dr. Prince-Paul is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. This is a National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Prevention Research Education Post-Doctoral Training Program (PREP) position, considered to be a highly competitive position that speaks to her commitment to a research career. Extending her research beyond the postdoctoral dissertation, Dr. Prince Paul was recently awarded a grant from the Fetzer Institute as co-investigator on a study of “The Role of Forgiveness in End-of-Life Care and Bereavement”.
Dr. Prince-Paul’s education includes Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in nursing from Wright State University and Case Western Reserve University, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University and Research Assistant at the Hospice Institute, Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.
With 7 publications in peer reviewed journals, Dr. Prince-Paul recently co-authored a chapter in the Textbook of Palliative Care, 3rd Ed., Oxford University Press (2010). She has an extensive record of presentations at national conferences and co-chaired both the 2008 and the 2009 AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly.
 2009 Anne M. Hughes, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Hughes’s research, “Meaning and Experiences of Dignity to Urban Poor With Advanced Cancer”, is a focus on dignity in the urban poor with advanced disease. Currently, she is an advanced practice nurse in palliative care at Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center and an Associate Clinical Professor in Nursing in the Department of Physiological Nursing at University of California San Francisco.
A 2007 graduate of the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Hughes received the 2008 Oncology Nursing Society Excellence in Cancer Nursing Research Award as well as the University California San Francisco Distinguished Dissertation of the Year for 2007.
 2007 Garrett Chan, PhD, APRN, BC-PCM, CEN
Dr. Chan is Assistant Clinical Professor and faculty in the Critical Care/Trauma Graduate Program at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing.
His doctoral dissertation examined an area of end of life care often overlooked: the experiences of critically and terminally ill patients, their family members, and health care professionals in emergency department situations. His work has led to a greater understanding of how palliative care may be integrated into emergency nursing and medicine practices.
Dr. Chan has received funding for his research from the Emergency Nurses Association Foundation and Sigma Theta Tau International, Alpha Eta Chapter. He has published his research in Academic Emergency Medicine and Nursing Philosophy, with other articles under review in the Journal of Palliative Medicine and American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. At UCSF, he teaches classes which help prepare future advanced practice nurses. He received his PhD in Nursing from UCSF in 2005.
 2006 Amy O. Calvin, PhD, RN
Amy Calvin, PhD, RN, is the first winner of this award. Dr. Calvin has served as the Palliative Care Nurse Researcher at St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas as an assistant professor in the Department of Acute and Continuing Care at the University Of Texas School Of Nursing at Houston. She collaborated with Dr. Porter Storey to write the protocol for the Use of Oxycodone Hydrochloride for Dyspnea In Patients With Advanced Heart Failure and recently conducted a study titled “The Neuroscience Nurse’s Experience With End-of-Life Care.” She is currently leading the Palliative Care Team’s study entitled “Use of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale by Patients Admitted to an Acute Palliative Care Service”.
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