National Compassionate Caregivers of the Year® Award Sponsor
CRICO

Visionary
Ellen Cohen and Daniel Haber

Champion
Anonymous
Ruth G. Koblenzer*
Jean-Paul A. Rebillard
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler

Gold
AMN Healthcare Impact Fund
Michael Blau and Ann Muschett
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
Betsy and Stephen Corman*
CRC Wholesale Group
Fran and Michael Goldberg
Jean Karpas Siegel Fund at The Boston Foundation
Tufts Medicine
Lynn Wiatrowski and Joren Madsen, MD

Silver
American Hospital Association
Joanne and Kevin Barrett
Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Bergman Family Foundation
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Boger Family Foundation, Inc.
The Boston Foundation/Judy Swahnberg-Carl Novotny Donor Advised Fund
Wendy and Richard Cohen
Consigli Construction Co., Inc.
Coverys
CVS Health
Ethan E. Crain
Jean and Michael Dandorf
Diedrich & Donohue LLP
Andrew Dreyfus
Eastern Bank
Epstein Becker Green
Faggiano & Associates, P.C.
Rushika and Maria Fernandopulle
Melissa Fitzpatrick, MSN
Foley & Lardner LLP
Graham Gardner, MD, MBA
Hamel Marcin Dunn Reardon & Shea, PC
Highland Street Foundation
Ann-Ellen Hornidge, Esq., and Ned Murphy
Liberty Mutual Group
Lilly USA, LLC
Pamela Mann and David Baron, MD
The Mann Family Foundation
Elizabeth Maringer and Jay Shiland
Kim Marshall and Rhoda Schneider
Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute
Sharon and Brian McNally
Middleton & Company, Inc.
Mintz
Mirick
Joyce Murphy – in loving memory of Bill Melanson
Murphy & Riley, P.C.
Reena L. Pande, MD
Angela Patterson, DNP
Point32Health
Glenn Pomerantz, MD, JD
William and Lia G. Poorvu Family Foundation
Sandyha Rao, MD
Mark Reynolds and Clare Reilly
Ropes & Gray LLP
Rubin Paterniti Gonzalez Rizzo Kaufman LLP
Sompo
Tony and Kathy Starr
Sherman H. Starr Family Foundation
UBS
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Wellington Management
Peter and Ellen Zane

Bronze
Anonymous
Boston Children’s Hospital
William and Janene Burke
Howard Cohen and Myra Musicant
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Michael S. Feldberg and Ruth Lazarus
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton – in memory of Ruth Kilduff
Michael Gustafson, MD, and Scott Quint
Brent Henry and Minnie Baylor-Henry
Joint Commission
Legacy Lifecare
Southcoast Health
South Shore Health System
Daniel and Colette Stanzler
Michael and Audrey Straight
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

Patron 
Tom and Midge DeSimone
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois

Other Supporters
Marcia Allar
Aon Risk Services
Larry and Betsy Athan
Michele Babineau
Mimi Bartholomay
Berkley Healthcare
Peter and Lisa Biagetti
Drs. Brad and Andrea Buchbinder – in memory of Frances and Jerry Gold
Gary Cohen
Robert I. Cohen and Julie A. Watts
Deborah Curran
Charles Doherty, Jr.
Rich and Kris Doherty
EPIC Insurance Brokers
Nanne Finis
Focus Partners Wealth
David Fryburg
David and Nancy Fulton
Hilary and Dick Glovsky
Brett and Abby Gordon
Tina and David Governo
Barbara Guilfoile and Bernard Lebow
Elizabeth Hickman
Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C.
Connie Howes and Kelly Sheridan
Barbara Jones
Christopher Keele
Susan M. Kenyon
Michele and Michael Klau
Larry and ML Krakauer
Jeff Levin-Scherz
Steven and Marjorie Levin
Alan D. and Susan Lewis Solomont Family Foundation
Beth Lown, MD, and the Piken Family
Sarah Lukas
Thomas Lynch, Jr. MD, and Laura Pappano
Christine Madigan and Stephen Callahan
Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
Massachusetts Medical Society
McCarthy Bouley Barry + Morgan
Richard McCready and Rosemary McCarthy
Mr. and Mrs. Terence McDermott
National Development
Olajumoke Ogunbodede
Pro-Praxis Insurance
Propel Insurance
Thomas P. Quinn
Susan and Jim Rapoport
Red Sox Foundation
Anne G. Romney and Timothy Hayes
George Rosenthal, MD
Eric and Kim Schultz
Fleur Segal
Robert N. Shapiro
Nutan Sharma, MD, PhD and Antonio Aldykiewicz
Jo and Mike Solet
Kathryn Sweeney
Marsha Tucker
Tufts University
Angela Turner
Peter Underhill and Nancy Gladyszak
Wendy Warring, JD and Troy Brennan, MD
Mark B. Wenneker and Amy Billett
Martha and Jeff Winokur
Daniel Wofford and Sarah Peck
Alfred Wojciechowski
Charlotte Yeh, MD, FACEP

*deceased

Amy and David Abrams
Marcia Allar
Marsha 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
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*
The Cohen/Vullo Family
Carol Feinberg 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
Ruth S. Cope, PhD
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
Roger S. Driben
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois
The Honorable Michael Dukakis and Kitty Dukakis*
Jay S. Duker and Julie Starr-Duker
Alvin and Caroline Essig
Michael S. Feldberg and Ruth Lazarus
Mark Huberman and Stephanie G. Fidel
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
Tom Grape
Roger and Laura Gray
Barbara Rubin Green
Betty Green
Debby and Tony Green
Carolyn Greenberg and J. David Allred
Irving and Judith Haber*
Joseph Hameline
Irwin and Sheila Heller
Marcia Hertz
Ruth L. Hertz
Win and Margie Hodges
Marc and Diane Homer
Eve T. Horwitz and Steve Emmerich
Terry Hudson-Jinks, RN, MSN
Murray A. Jacobson Family Foundation
Alison Poorvu Jaffe and Daniel Jaffe
Stacy N. Jagher, LICSW
Ellen Janos
Michael Joachim and Ellen Winer
Beverly Johnston
Jerome and Sheridan Kassirer
Ms. 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
Tressa Miller Schwartz
Evvajean Mintz
Lynn Modell
Robert Muffly and Carol Buckler
Joyce Murphy
Jay Naparstek
Ms. 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
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
Jan and Stuart Rose
Julie A. Rosen and Gary Belowich
Larry G. Rosenberg, PhD
Debra and Eric Ruder
Carmen and Susan Russo
David and Carol Ryan
Dorothy Renaghan and Anthony Santangelo
Louise Sawyer and Michael Elefante
Joan L. Scheff
Doris and Simon Scheff
Bobbi and Phil Schmidt
Rhoda Schneider and Michael Marshall
Eric and Kim Schultz
Thomas P. Sellers, III, and Terry Ann Lunt
Judith and Fred Server
Robert Shapiro
Fredi and Jack Shonkoff
Jill and Donald Shulman
Michael Shwartz and Pam Goodman
Beverly Siegal Peiser, MD and Richard Peiser
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
Tony and Kathy Starr
Michael and Audrey Straight
Henry A. Sullivan
Jean C. Sullivan and Richard Cane, Jr.
The Boston Foundation/Judy Swahnberg-Carl Novotny Donor Advised Fund
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

Caregivers Honored January 1, 2025 – October 28, 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.

Brian Cohen, MD
Munther Homoud, MD
Madison Homsey, RN, MSN, FNP
Beth A. Lown, MD
Shelby McCulloch, RN
Yatish Patel, MD
May Pian-Smith, MD, MS
Ellen M. Robinson, RN, PhD
Ele Valencia, MD
Ming Zhou, MD, PhD
Liyan Zhuang, MD