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 2011 Madalon O'Rawe Amenta, RN MN PhD
Dr. Amenta is being acknowledged with this year’s award for her remarkable work as the Executive Director of the Hospice Nurses Association (HPNA) from 1993 through 1997.
Madalon O’Rawe Amenta, RN, MN, PhD, dedicated her career to community nursing and was inspired to join the hospice movement in the 1970s after having read Elisabeth Kübler Ross’ On Death and Dying. After serving on the hospice planning committee at Pittsburgh Hospital, she eventually became Director of Education and Research at Forbes Hospice. This, in turn, led to founding the Pennsylvania Hospice Network and serving two terms as its first president. Her illustrious career has also included being a hospice career-related researcher, author, editor, academic educator, and mentor. She has received numerous honors in recognition of her caring work.
Some of her many professional honors include the Heart of Hospice Award from the National Hospice Organization in 1998; National Hospice Organization President’s Award of Excellence for a publication in the Hospice Staff Training and Development Category for the manual Quality Assurance for Hospice Patient Care, 1988; American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year in the Gerontologic Nursing Category for Nursing Care of the Terminally Ill, 1986; and the Yale University School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award, 1982.
 2010 Ida M. Martinson, BS, MS, PhD, FAAN
Dr. Martinson’s career began as a diploma graduate of St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in Duluth, MN. She earned her BS and Master’s degrees in Nursing Administration from the University of Minnesota. In, 1972 she earned a PhD in Physiology from the University of Illinois, where she continued to serve as a lecturer in the department of physiology and became a professor in the school of nursing in 1977. Dr. Martinson was then recruited by the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) in 1982, where she worked in a well established research program focusing on the care of children with terminal illnesses.
During her years at UCSF, she took a leave of absence to serve as chair of nursing and head of the department of health sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. Having spent many years as a consultant to nursing schools in various Asian countries, Dr. Martinson has a longstanding commitment to Asian cultures and has extensively studied the impact of childhood cancer on the child and family and care giving practices of Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean families.
Dr. Martinson has received national and international recognition for her work, which includes more than 100 published articles, 65 book chapters, and six books. She is recognized for her willingness to share her data with young investigators as a mentor. She has held numerous visiting professorships, served on editorial boards, and received the Humanitarian Award from Pediatric Nursing.
 
2009 Denice Sheehan, PhD, RN and Deborah Witt Sherman, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, ACHPN® , FAAN co-recipients of the 2009 Leading the Way Award.
Dr. Sheehan and Dr. Sherman are being acknowledged with this year’s award for their remarkable efforts to further enhance the quality of nursing care through leading the way in graduate hospice and palliative care education.
Dr. Sheehan is an Assistant Professor at the Kent State University College of Nursing in Kent, Ohio, where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate level courses. Before her professorship with Kent State, Dr. Sheehan served as Coordinator with the Palliative Care Program at the Ursuline College Breen School of Nursing in Pepper Pike, Ohio.
In the area of research, Dr. Sheehan has extensive experience investigating the interaction patterns between parents with advanced cancer in hospice and their adolescent children. She has given professional presentations on the topics of communication near the end of life, nursing research, palliative care, palliative nursing in academia, and decision making at the end of life. Dr. Sheehan’s work has been published in numerous journals and texts, including the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, American Journal of Nursing, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Textbook of Palliative Nursing, and Hospice and Palliative Care: Concepts and Practice. Since 1999, Dr. Sheehan also has served on the Advisory Board and Faculty of the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC).
Dr. Sherman is an Associate Professor with tenure within the division of nursing at NYU, where she has also served as Acting Director of the Doctoral Program in Nursing and coordinator of the Advanced Practice Palliative Care Master’s and Post-Master’s Certificate Programs. She also provides palliative care and education across seven skilled nursing and assisted living facilities as Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner and Educator at the Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut located in Danbury, CT.
As an accomplished researcher, her interests include breast cancer education and counseling, palliative and oncology care, quality of life, symptom management, and AIDS/HIV. She has presented widely and published extensively on a variety of subjects relating to end-of-life and palliative care, including patient fatigue, culturally competent care, and suffering of the caregiver. Her work has also appeared in such diverse journals as American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine and American Journal of Nursing. In 2008, she received the Outstanding Contribution to the College of Palliative Care from the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Sherman also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
2008 Jeanne Quint Benoliel, DNSc, RN, FAAN No photo available
Dr. Jeanne Quint Benoliel graduated from St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in San Francisco, served in the United States Army Nurse Corp., received her B.S. from Oregon State University, her Master’s from the University of California, Los Angeles and her DNSc from the University of California, San Francisco. Her commitment to the care of the dying began with her work with Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss. She continued her work studying patterns of communication and behaviors of the terminally ill. As a result of her studies, Dr. Benoliel was able to document that the care for the dying destroyed quality of life in their final moments, was misdirected and expensive secondary to the flurry of invasive activities noted at that time. She has taught courses, written extensively and conducted many workshops on end of life care. She was the first to bring in the family in terms of the unit of care. She was well ahead of her time. Dr. Benoliel was the first nurse president of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement. She is recognized as one of the founders in the field of hospice and palliative care. Through her work and teaching, she has transformed nursing care for the dying as well as shaped the field of palliative and hospice care. HPNA is quite honored to recognize this wonderful nursing leader as the 2008 HPNA Leading the Way award winner.
 2007 Pamela S. Hinds, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN
Dr. Pamela Hinds is the Director, Division of Nursing Research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, a full member of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee, College of Nursing and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. With more than 25 years experience in research, Dr. Hinds has been the principle investigator of numerous research grants is widely published with more than 150 manuscripts, as well as textbooks, guidebooks, monographs and book chapters and has been the recipient of numerous awards. Dr. Hinds’ primary interest in research includes decision making, quality of life, fatigue and end of life. She is actively involved in many ways with the Children’s Oncology Group as well as the Oncology Nursing Society where she chaired the ONS Multi-site Research Project Team and was a member of the National Quality Forum Review Committee, Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality. Dr. Hinds presents extensively and currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing and as a reviewer for many other peer reviewed journals. Dr. Hinds credits her husband, as well as sons Ben and Adam, for all these successes.
Standing (L to R): Susan Mann, Elizabeth Pitorak, Molly Poleto, Jane Kirschling, Connie Dahlin, Linda Gorman
Seated (L to R): Dorothy Caruso-Hermann, Brenda Clarkson, Virginia Shubert, Ken Zeri
Missing: Michelle Tubbs
2006 HPNA Past-Presidents
The HPNA Leading the Way Award recognizes a nursing leader who has “led the way” in hospice and palliative nursing. The 2006 recipients of this award are the 11 HPNA Past-Presidents, honored for their contributions as nursing leaders in end-of-life nursing.
 2005 Madalon Amenta, RN, MN, PhD
The HPNA Leading the Way Award recognizes a nursing leader who has “led the way” in hospice and palliative nursing. The HPNA Board of Directors has chosen Madalon O’Rawe Amenta RN, MN, PhD to be honored in 2005 for a multitude of contributions as a nursing leader in end-of-life care.
Madalon Amenta, the nurse, was inspired to join the hospice movement in the 1970s after having read Elisabeth Kübler Ross’ On Death and Dying. After serving on the hospice planning committee at Pittsburgh Hospital she eventually became Director of Education and Research at Forbes Hospice. This, in turn, led to founding the Pennsylvania Hospice Network and serving two terms as its first president. Her illustrious career has also included being a hospice career-related researcher, author, editor, academic educator, and mentor. She has received numerous honors in recognition of her caring work. Madalon Amenta is the recipient of the 2005 HPNA’s “Leading the Way” Award.
 2004 Florence Wald, BA, MN, MS, PhD
The HPNA Leading the Way Award is intended to recognize a nursing leader who has led the way in hospice and palliative nursing.
The first recipient of this award was indeed born a nursing leader. Experiences from the early days of her life forged the values, ethics and passion to become, as HPNA affectionately calls her, the "mother of hospice and palliative nursing". The HPNA Board of Directors proudly announces that this individual is Dr. Florence Wald, the nursing pioneer for establishing hospice in America. Through her leadership and commitment, hospice care was initiated in the United States in 1974. Her influence has continued over the last 2½ decades as healthcare leaders in America have joined together to improve end of life care in America.
Dr. Wald, a nursing graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, earned a Masters in Nursing and a Masters in Science from Yale University. Her illustrious career has included serving as researcher, academic educator, dean, author, and speaker. She is currently a Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Nursing serving as role model, mentor and researcher with many accomplished colleagues.
Dr. Wald has been a champion in the care for the dying patient. "From the nurse's point of view, hospice care is the epitome of good nursing" says Dr. Wald. "It enables the patient to get through the end of life on their own terms. It is a holistic approach, looking at the patient as an individual, a human being. The spiritual role nurses play in the end of life process is essential to both patients and families" says Dr. Wald.
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