Thank You to Our Donors.
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare gratefully acknowledges the many individuals, families, corporations, foundations and organizations that have so generously supported our programs. The following includes cumulative gifts and pledges made during the 2025 calendar year.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of donor names. Please contact us with any changes to your listing.
Individual Donors
National Compassionate Care Circle
Members of our National Compassionate Care Circle are individual donors who give $10,000 or more to support the work of the Schwartz Center.
$100,000+
Ellen Cohen and Daniel Haber
$50,000-$99,999
Anonymous
Ruth G. Koblenzer*
Jean-Paul A. Rebillard
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler
$25,000-$49,999
Michael Blau and Ann Muschett
The Boston Foundation
Judy Swahnberg-Carl Novotny Donor Advised Fund
Fran and Michael Goldberg
Ellen Feldberg Gordon and Michael Gordon
Ann-Ellen Hornidge, Esq., and Ned Murphy
Lynn Wiatrowski and Joren C. Madsen, MD
$10,000-$24,999
Joanne and Kevin Barrett
Minnie Baylor-Henry and Brent Henry
Robyn Begley, DNP
Wendy and Richard Cohen
Betsy and Stephen Corman*
Ethan E. Crain
Andrew Dreyfus
Rushika and Maria Fernandopulle
Melissa Fitzpatrick, MSN
Graham S. Gardner
Alison Poorvu Jaffe and Daniel Jaffe
Ruth Kilduff, RN,* and Jay Carrigan
Sarah Lukas
Elizabeth Maringer and Jay A. Shiland
Sharon and Brian McNally
Joyce Murphy
In loving memory of Bill Melanson
Reena and Ashvin Pande
Angela Patterson, DNP
Pam and Glenn Pomerantz, MD, JD
Sandhya Rao, MD
Clare Reilly and Mark Reynolds
Rhoda Schneider and Michael Marshall
Jean Karpas Siegel Fund at The Boston Foundation
Tony and Kathy Starr
$5,000-$9,999
William and Janene Burke
Howard Cohen and Myra Musicant
Michael S. Feldberg and Ruth Lazarus
Mark Foletta
Teri Fontenot
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Linnea and Niyum Gandhi
Amy and David Goldminz, MD
Michael Gustafson, MD, and Scott Quint
Jeff Harris
Sally Jackson
Daphne Jones
Samantha Kingsbury Brown
Michele and Michael D. Klau
Beth Lown, MD, and the Piken Family
Thomas Lynch, Jr., MD, and Laura Pappano
Pamela Mann and David Baron, MD
Dick Marks and Jennifer Morrison
Daniel and Colette Stanzler
Michael and Audrey Straight
Sylvia Trent-Adams
Larry Vernaglia
Naomi Weinberg and Ted Berk
Douglas Wheat
Marilyn Yager
Peter and Ellen Zane
$1,000-$4,999
Peta Alexander, MBBS
Anonymous (4)
Suzanne Bays
Kenneth R. Berman
Peter and Lisa Biagetti
Richard Bottner, PA-C
Judy A. Brodkin
Robert Bruch, Jr., CFA
Drs. Brad and Andrea Buchbinder
In memory of Frances and Jerry Gold
Joseph Calcagno
Rebecca Capozzi and Douglas Morgan
Emily Chapman, MD
Nicole Cooksey
Lois and Lincoln Cornell III
Emma L. Dann
Tom and Midge DeSimone
Rich and Kris Doherty
Jonathan Dorfman and Anne Blumberg
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois
John R. Fernandez
Mishele and Robert Fields, MD
Andrew Gallinaro
Diane and Michael Gardener
Peter G. Gardyna and Joan Prevett
Brett and Abby Gordon
Gary Gottlieb, MD and Derri Shtasel, MD, MPH
Helen and Larry Green
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Greene
Audrey Greening
Robert J. Griffin and Roseann M. Russell
Barbara Guilfoile and Bernard Lebow
Douglas Henck
Rusty Herbert
Elizabeth Hickman
Connie Howes and Kelly Sheridan
Barbara Jones
Bob Kilroy
Maya Kliger
Larry and ML Krakauer
Ann Lowry
Christine Madigan and Stephen Callahan
John A. Mannix and Carmel A. Shields
Edward Marsteiner
Claire and Cornelius Marx
Richard McCready and Rosemary McCarthy
Vincent T. McDermott
Jo Frances Meyer
Robert Muffly and Carol Buckler
Cindy and Mitch Neider
Britain W. Nicholson, MD, and Celeste Robb-Nicholson, MD
Nina Piken
Rosie Ramos
Susan and Jim Rapoport
Christina Harms Redlick and David E. Redlick
Marla and Cliff Robinson
Anne G. Romney and Timothy Hayes
Beth A. Sampath
Suzanne Salaman and Alan Einhorn
Richard and Ellie Scherr
Bobbi and Phil Schmidt
Eric and Kim Schultz
Ben Schwartz
Tressa Miller Schwartz
Nutan Sharma, MD, PhD and Antonio Aldykiewicz
Thomas F. Shields*
Fredi and Jack Shonkoff
Jo and Mike Solet
Anne F. St. Goar and Shippen L. Page
Lauren Stanzler
Matt and Morgen Stanzler
Kathryn Sweeney
Ritu Trivedi-Purohit, PsyD and Paresh Purohit
Peter R. Underhill and Nancy Gladyszak
Joan M. Vitello
Ali Walsh
Kate Walsh and Erik Garpestad, MD
Njoki Wamiti
Jean S. Whitney
Dan Wofford and Sarah Peck
Alfred Wojciechowski
$500-$999
Nancy Allen and Marc Landry
Anonymous (2)
Elissa B. Arons, MD
Tina Aronson and Koby A. Rotstein
John and Molly Beard
Andy Bressler
Toby Bright
Abbie Brown
Tina Caporale
Robert I. Cohen and Julie A. Watts
Michael Connelly
Andrea Coyle
Deborah Curran
Ila Davidoff
Elizabeth Doughtery
Tiffany Forti
David Fryburg
Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH
Rita Gardner
Hilary and Dick Glovsky
Stephen Gordon, MD, MBA
Tina and David Governo
Torin Hayes
Christopher Keele
Susan M. Kenyon
Cameron F. Kerry and Kathy B. Weinman
Howard Koh, MD and Claudia Arrigg, MD
Mathew LeBlanc
Bernard Leung
Linda and Jeff Levin-Scherz
Anne Lown
Amy and Ken MacNulty
Barbara McCarthy, RN
Maria McCormack, CFA and Thomas McCormack
Mr. and Mrs. Terence McDermott
Diane and Mark Nardi
Trishan Panch
Shelli Pavone
Thomas and Amanda Quinn
Michael Racette
Charles Rollins
Elizabeth H. Ross
Andrew Schutzbank, MD, MPH
Cathy and Bob Schwab
Catherine and James Stanzler
Will Sutherland
Paul Tucker and Maggie Moss-Tucker
Wendy Warring, JD and Troy Brennan, MD
Jennifer Weber and Laurence Bailen
Martha and Jeff Winokur
Charlotte S. Yeh, MD, FACEP
$250-$499
Marcia Allar
Michele M. Babineau
Mimi Bartholomay
Faith Bennett
Samuel A. Berkman, MD, FACP
Kiretta Bowens
Paul Boynton
Richard Chaisson, MD and Judith Harding
Lisa and Robert Cohen
Dennis Cook
Gerard and Diane Coste
Conor Duffy
Winnie and David Ebb, MD
Nanne Finis
Susan Foster, MPH, MSSW and Bruce Horwitz, MD
David and Nancy Fulton
Joseph Gawronski
Eva and William Gee
Bethany Gibson
Barry Ginsberg, MD
Liane Clamen Glazer, MD
Charles J. Hatem, MD
Marcia Hertz
Andrew A. Hyman
Jo Ann Jorge
Roy Kaufman
Steven and Marjorie Levin
Lisa Morrissey
James J. O’Connell, MD
Pearl O’Rourke
Cassandra Paolillo
Christina Parks and Andy Salomone
Miriam Pinon, DNP
Petra Platzer
Diane Regan
Peter Robinson
Tom Roche
Benjamin M. Romney, MD
Larry G. Rosenberg, PhD
Matt Savarese
Robert N. Shapiro
Ellen and Joel Silberman
Maura Travers
Lia Tron, MD, MPH
Angela Turner
Jon Wagenseller
Charles F. Woodard, Jr.
Organization Donors
National Business Members
Chairman Circle
CRICO
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mass General Brigham
Mintz
Executive Circle
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Leader Circle
Benchmark Senior Living
Lockton
MedPro Group
Monigle
$50,000-$99,999
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
CRICO
$25,000-$49,999
Marsh McLennan
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
$10,000-$24,999
Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease
American Hospital Association
Aon Risk Services
Bergman Family Foundation
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Boger Family Foundation, Inc.
Consigli Construction Co., Inc.
Coverys
CRC Wholesale Group
CVS Health
Diedrich & Donohue, LLP
Eastern Bank
Epstein Becker & Green, PC
Faggiano & Associates, PC
Foley & Lardner LLP
Hamel Marcin Dunn Reardon & Shea, PC
Highland Street Foundation
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
Lilly USA, LLC
Mann Family Foundation
Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute
MedPro Group, a Berkshire Hathaway Company
Middleton & Company, Inc.
Mintz
Mirick
Miss Wallace M. Leonard Foundation
Murphy & Riley
Point32Health
Ropes & Gray LLP
Rubin Paterniti Gonzalez Rizzo Kaufman LLP
Sherman H. Starr Family Foundation
Sompo International
Tufts Medicine
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Wellington Management Company
William and Lia G. Poorvu Family Foundation
$5,000-$9,999
Boston Medical Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Epic Insurance Brokers
Focus Partners Wealth
Joint Commission
Legacy Lifecare
National Development
Pro-Praxis Insurance
Propel Insurance
Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation
South Shore Health System
Southcoast Health
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
$1,000-$4,999
Adler, Cohen, Harvey, Wakeman & Guekguezian LLP
Alan D. and Susan Lewis Solomont Family Foundation
The Alan Keith Brodkin Memorial Foundation
Alliance Health and Human Services
Ankner and Levy, PC
Berkley Healthcare
Hinckley Allen LLP
Hooper, Lundy & Bookman P.C.
Krokidas & Bluestein LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Martin, Magnuson, McCarthy & Kenney
Massachusetts Hospital Association
Massachusetts Medical Society
McCarthy Bouley Barry + Morgan
Red Sox Foundation
Shields Health Care
Todd & Weld LLP
Tufts University
Verrill Dana
Up to $999
The Goldstone Family Foundation
Pierce & Mandell, PC
In Memory Of
Daniel L. Arons, MD
Elissa B. Arons, MD
Julia Bartholomay
Mimi Bartholomay
Ann D. Begley
Robyn Begley, DNP
Kevin J. Forster
Christine Rocco
Charles Friedman
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois
Henry A. Gardyna
Joan Prevett
Kathleen Marie Geary
Scott Hufford
Gregory J. Hall
Daniel Wofford and Sarah Peck
Winthrop M. Hodges
John Bales
Douglas Henck
Andrew Schiff
Charles F. Woodard, Jr.
Jean Kaercher
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler
Ruth L. Kilduff, RN
Julie Buckley
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Barbara McCarthy, RN
Joyce Murphy
Bill Melanson
Joyce Murphy
Laurie Schwartz Naparstek, EdD
Jay Naparstek
Dana Romney
Benjamin M. Romney, MD
Samuel and Muriel Ross
Elizabeth H. Ross
Kenneth B. Schwartz
Samuel A. Berkman, MD, FACP
Richard Chaisson, MD and Judith Harding
Ms. Betsy Gordon
Dr. David H. Ingbar and Dr. Mary E. Meighan
In Honor Of
Michael L. Blau
Larry and Betsy Athan
Sue S. Cahners
Yatish Patel
Physicians at Children’s Minnesota
Emily Chapman, MD
Cohen Family
Maggie Moss-Tucker (3)
Ellen R. Cohen, MSW
Anonymous
Joan Feinberg Berns, PhD
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
Winnie and David Ebb, MD (2)
Marla and Cliff Robinson
Wendy and Richard Cohen
Ila Davidoff
Andrew A. Hyman
Mark Foletta
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
Teri Fontenot
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
Tom and Mary Grape
Alfred Wojciechowski
Lysa Hall
Che Anderson
Jeff Harris
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
Daphne Jones
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
Talia Kliger
Shayna Schor
Beth A. Lown, MD
Jeri Bayer
Wendy and Richard Cohen
Anne Lown
Sharon and Brian McNally
Carol Mostow, LICSW and John Bowen
Nina Piken
Judy Swahnberg and Carl Novotny
Ann Muschett
Larry and Betsy Athan
Betsy Ross
Joe Toochin
Susan Toochin
Staff at the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Jessica Thompson Somol
Jay Shiland
Joseph Gawronski
Marjorie Stanzler
Mark and Julie Berenberg
Joan Feinberg Berns, PhD
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
Leslie and Stan Godoff
Connie Howes and Kelly Sheridan
Claire and Cornelius Marx
Tony M. Starr, Esq.
Peter and Lisa Biagetti
Lisa and Robert Cohen
Sylvia Trent-Adams
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
Douglas Wheat
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
Champions of Compassion
Our Champions of Compassion are individual donors who have been contributing to the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare for at least half of our 30 years. They number only 5% of all our individual donors, and we are truly honored by their loyal support!
Amy and David Abrams
Marcia Allar
Marsha and Tom* Alperin
Stuart and Diane* Altman
Anonymous (4)
Elissa B. Arons, MD
Tina Aronson and Koby A. Rotstein
Michael J. Astrue and Laura W. Mali-Astrue
Richard Averbuch and April Austin
Donald and Karen Bachman
Charlie and Lauren Baker
Laurie Ansorge Ball
Arthur and Rachael Barabell
Mimi Bartholomay
Judith B. Bass and Jack Levy
Marc and Lorraine Batt
Eleanor A. Becker
Chaia Bekefi, MSW
Linda Bentley
Jerry and Fran Berger
Terry G. Bergman
Samuel A. Berkman, MD, FACP
Joan Feinberg Berns, PhD
Peter and Lisa Biagetti
Michael Blau and Ann Muschett
The Boston Foundation
Judy Swahnberg-Carl Novotny Donor Advised Fund
Patricia A. Bresky, PhD
Catherine Bromberg
Heidi Brown and Richard Moche
Drs. Brad and Andrea Buchbinder
in memory of Frances and Jerry Gold
Nancy L. Cahners
Abbie Celniker and Trevor Kaye, MD
Richard Chaisson, MD and Judith Harding
Joseph A. Chazan, MD*
Barbara H. Cohen*
Carol Feinberg Cohen*
Claire Cohen* and Bernard Cohen*
Ellen Cohen and Daniel Haber
Helen and David Cohen
Howard Cohen and Myra Musicant
Joyce Cohen and David B. Hellman
Robert I. Cohen and Julie A. Watts
Wendy and Richard Cohen
The Cohen/Vullo Family
Ruth S. Cope, PhD
Lois and Linc Cornell
Donald G. Cornuet and Stephen M. Weiner
Ethan E. Crain
Cynthia and Harvey Creem
Tom and Midge DeSimone
Joseph and Donna DiPersio
Rich and Kris Doherty
Catlin Donnelly and Hampton Watkins
Mark and Kate Donovan
Jonathan Dorfman and Anne Blumberg
Andrew Dreyfus
Rosalind Dreyfus*
Roger S. Driben
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois
Kitty* and Mike Dukakis
Jay S. Duker and Julie Starr-Duker
Alvin and Caroline Essig
Michael S. Feldberg and Ruth Lazarus
Steven Fischel and Lisa Plantefaber
The Fischman Family
(Nancy and Steven, Ben and Wendy, Laura Fischman and Tony Schwenson)
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Cynthia Frawley
Susan Frawley and Herb Luther
David and Nancy Fulton
Diane and Michael Gardener
Jody and David Gastfriend
Laurie and Paul Gershkowitz
Pamela P. Giannatsis
Andrew Gillies, MD, and Catherine Cahners
Connie Gilson*
Joan and James Gilson
Leslie and Stan Godoff
Carol and Avram* Goldberg, Joshua R. Goldberg, and Deborah Goldberg and Michael Winter
Brett and Abby Gordon
Ellen Feldberg Gordon and Michael Gordon
Joan Gordon
Naomi Gordon*
Tom Grape
Roger and Laura Gray
Barbara Rubin Green
Debby and Tony Green
Betty Green
Carolyn Greenberg and J. David Allred
Irving Haber* and Judith Haber*
Joseph Hameline
Irwin and Sheila Heller
Marcia Hertz
Ruth L. Hertz
Marc and Diane Homer
Eve T. Horwitz and Steve Emmerich
Mark Huberman and Stephanie G. Fidel
Terry Hudson-Jinks, RN, MSN
Andrew A. Hyman
Murray A. Jacobson Family Foundation
Alison Poorvu Jaffe and Daniel Jaffe
Stacy N. Jagher, LICSW
Ellen Janos
Michael Joachim and Ellen Winer
Jerome and Sheridan Kassirer
Katherine S. Kaufmann
Susan M. Kenyon
Cameron F. Kerry and Kathy B. Weinman
Stephen Kidder and Judith Malone
Ruth Kilduff, RN*, and Jay Carrigan
Marie and Charlie Kireker
Seth A. and Beth S. Klarman
Bill and Deborah Knowlton
Ruth G. Koblenzer*
B. Minde Kornfeld
Barry and Laura Korobkin
Mary Kraft, MD
Jonathan and Janet Kravetz
Marilyn Lambert and John Lindstrom, Jr.
Mary Kay Leonard and Richard Valachovic
Steven and Marjorie Levin
Anne L. Levine and Howard Smith
Sandra Y. Levine*
Linda and Jeff Levin-Scherz
Robin Lipson and Matt Fishman
Deborah and Robert Litt
Beth Lown, MD, and the Piken Family
Thomas Lynch, Jr., MD, and Laura Pappano
Amy and Ken MacNulty
Thomas F. Maloney, Esq.
Pamela Mann and David Baron, MD and Mann Family Foundation
Art in Giving for The Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation
Dick Marks and Jennifer Morrison
Joanne Marqusee
Jameson and Polly Marvin
Claire and Cornelius Marx
Honor E. McClellan, PhD
Richard McCready and Rosemary McCarthy
Sharon and Brian McNally
Evvajean Mintz
Lynn Modell
Robert Muffly and Carol Buckler
Joyce Murphy and Bill Melanson*
Jay Naparstek
Lois F. Nesson
Joseph and Margaret Newhouse
Britain W. Nicholson, MD, and Celeste Robb-Nicholson, MD
The Novack Family
James J. O’Connell, MD
Ellen and James Palmer
Beverly Siegal Peiser, MD and Richard Peiser
Peter and Mary Pendergast
Mary and Gary Pforzheimer
Lia and William Poorvu
Susan Rabinowitz
Ellen Ramsay
John and Laura Eby Regier
Michal A. Regunberg
Marla and Cliff Robinson
Anne G. Romney and Timothy Hayes
Benjamin M. Romney, MD
Carla A. Romney, MD, and Stuart M. Beard
Shirley Romney*
Jan and Stuart Rose
Julie A. Rosen and Gary Belowich
Larry G. Rosenberg, PhD
Daniel Rothenberg* and Sue Rothenberg*
Debra and Eric Ruder
Carmen and Susan Russo
David and Carol Ryan
Dorothy Renaghan and Anthony Santangelo
Louise Sawyer and Michael Elefante
Doris and Simon Scheff
Joan L. Scheff
Richard and Ellie Scherr
Bobbi and Phil Schmidt
Rhoda Schneider and Michael Marshall
Eric and Kim Schultz
Tressa Miller Schwartz
Thomas P. Sellers, III, and Terry Ann Lunt
Judith and Fred Server
Robert Shapiro
Fredi and Jack Shonkoff
Jill and Donald Shulman
Ronald* and Diane Shulman
Michael Shwartz and Pam Goodman
Jean Karpas Siegel Fund at The Boston Foundation
Steven and Karen Sisselman
Peggy Slasman and Gerard J. Sarnie
Gabriela and Doug Smith, Amanter Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of the National Philanthropic Trust
Gail Smith
Karen Smith and Albert Wallis
Kimberly A. Smith and William Charette
Alison Sneider
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler
Sandy Starr and Raine Figueroa
Sherman H. Starr*
Tony and Kathy Starr
Michael and Audrey Straight
Henry A. Sullivan
Jean C. Sullivan and Richard Cane, Jr.
Dr. Samuel and Paula Thier
Marsha Tucker
Jeanie Ungerleider and William Stone, MD
Clare Villari and David Weinstein
Ralph and Martha Wales
Marcia Wallace and Martin Rubenstein
Kate Walsh and Erik Garpestad, MD
Wendy Warring, JD and Troy Brennan, MD
Mel and Harriet Warshaw
Susan Whitehead
Lynn Wiatrowski and Joren C. Madsen, MD
Martha and Jeff Winokur|
Philip Witman and Bonnie Perlmutter, PhD
Dan Wofford and Sarah Peck
Roni and Lawrence Woods
Marilyn Yager
Charlotte Yeh, MD, FACEP
Peter and Ellen Zane
Norman and Adelle Zimbel
Ellen L. Ziskind
Compassionate Caregiver Honor Roll
Caregivers Honored January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Thousands of compassionate caregivers have been recognized since 2008 for their everyday acts of compassion by grateful patients and families who make a donation to the Schwartz Center in their name.
Jennifer Clark
Marcia Allar
Brian Cohen, MD
Robert N. Shapiro
Munther Homoud, MD
Robert N. Shapiro
Madison Homsey, RN, MSN, FNP
Peta Alexander, MBBS
Patrick Johnson, MD
Beth Nast
Rashmi Kaura, MD
Eleanor A. Becker
Ruth L. Kilduff, RN*
Ethan E. Crain
Maxine M. Klenicki, LICSW
Stacy N. Jagher, LICSW
Beth A. Lown, MD
Peter and Lisa Biagetti
Shelby McCulloch, RN
Peta Alexander, MBBS
Yatish Patel, MD
Amy and Catherine Cahners
May Pian-Smith, MD, MS
Lia Tron, MD, MPH
Ellen M. Robinson, RN, PhD
Honor E. McClellan, PhD
Milagros Serrano, DDS
Marcia Allar
Ele Valencia, MD
Peta Alexander, MBBS
Ming Zhou, MD, PhD
Robert N. Shapiro
Liyan Zhuang, MD
Robert N. Shapiro
Legacy Society
Carole Allen, MD
Minnie Baylor-Henry and Brent Henry
Judy Brodkin
Betsy Corman* and Stephen Corman*
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Nancy and David Fulton
Fran and Michael Goldberg
Ruth Kilduff, RN,* and Jay Carrigan
Melinda Kimble and James Phippard
Joan M. Leiman, PhD
Andrew Levine
Ann Lowry
Steve and Moira Mitus
Suzanne E. Salamon and Alan H. Einhorn
Rhoda Schneider and Michael Marshall
Tressa Miller Schwartz
Alaina and Nick Tassinari
Ali Walsh
Lucy Watson-Baker*
Peter and Ellen Zane
*deceased
