The DAISY Award
DAISY Individual or Team Award
DAISY Award honorees personify UCLA Health’s remarkable patient experience.
Daisy Individual or Team Award
All Nominations Welcome!
The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses was created to ensure that nurses know how deserving they are of our society's profound respect for the education, training, brainpower, and skill they put into their work, and especially for the care that they share with patients and families
DAISY Award honorees personify UCLA Health's remarkable patient experience. These nurses consistently demonstrate excellence through their clinical expertise and extraordinary compassionate care, and they are recognized as outstanding role models in our nursing community.
DAISY Award recipients are registered nurses who exemplify the nursing values: Extraordinary Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Discovery, Integrity, and Teamwork in the work they do daily.
Learn how UCLA Health Daisy Award nominees have made a difference in patient care!
2024 DAISY Individual Award
- Ashley Bender
- Maria Dolores Carpio
- Esther Lee
- Katherine Farabaugh
- Magdalena Mroczkowska
- Maria Nuno
- Kathy Paredes-Green
- Atousa Salehi
2024 DAISY Leadership Award
2024 DAISY Educator
- Kennedy Davis
2024 DAISY Lifetime Achievement
2024 DAISY Team Award
- 6NW
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2023 DAISY Individual Award
- Pauline Andan
- Chrystal Bridges (coming soon)
- Valerie Carducci (coming soon)
- Eunice Eunjoo Chang
- Kristen Chin
- Rebekah Chung
- Pamela De La Pena (coming soon)
- Nancy Flores‐Mandesian (coming soon)
- Mary Gillam
- Olena Goncharenko (coming soon)
- Marilyn Guillermo
- Jeanne Huchting
- Irene Hwang
- Yasuhiko Ide (coming soon)
- Cristine Kim
- Hazel Lao (coming soon)
- Eli Jack Latham
- Irina Levitskaya (coming soon)
- Marion McNamara
- Kenneth D Matthews II
- Fumiko (Fumi) McLaughlin
- Rayna McParlane
- Hazel Montoya
- Ann Munnelly (coming soon)
- Angela Park
- Derek Portea
- Christina Ruelas (coming soon)
- Diana Serrano
- Amy Sekhon (coming soon)
- David Wareham (coming soon)
- Sandra Young
- Nick Zambos
2023 DAISY Leadership Award
- Lorraine Duli
- Leslie Evertson
- Stephanie Jackson
- Mandy Jasdhaul
- Florence Kibe
- Theresa Kirkpatrick (coming soon)
- Dahlia Maldonado (coming soon)
- Kenneth Matthews (coming soon)
- Kenneth D Matthews II
- Susan Rappaport
- Nkauj‐Iab Xiong (coming soon)
- Joshua Yap
- Sangyoung Yu‐Choi
2023 Nurse Educator Award
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award
- Izabela Araujo
- Marilou Bharwani
2023 DAISY Team Award
- 3NW - UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
- 4 East C - Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
- Clinical Surveillance Team (coming soon)
- Department of Care Coordination - Surgery and Transplant Case Managers (coming soon)
- Liver Transplant Team (coming soon)
- Main Operating Room - UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
- MSU Clinical Neurophysiology Team (coming soon)
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Team
- Nursing Informatics (coming soon)
- Pediatric Infusion Team
Learn how UCLA Health Daisy Award nominees have made a difference in patient care!
2022 DAISY Individual Award
- Abigail Puczkowski
- Arzeena Shariff
- Cody Kaufman
- Ephrem Solomon
- Gloria Young
- Jacqueline Wangerin
- Jenni Shpiro
- Johnjay Crawford
- Joowon Bang
- Josephine Sunga
- Lolita Kazaryants
- Lourdes Fukushima
- Maria Marquez
- Marilou Bharwani
- Mary Anne Francisco
- Meghan Hebert
- Michelle Sanchez
- Monica Mikhael
- Stella Nazarpoor
- Tala Noori-Jah
- Tammi Burns
2022 DAISY Leadership Award
- Cindy Bae
- Coleen Wilson
- Ema Wang
- Francis Saint Clair
- Heather Slattery
- K. David Bailey
- Lauren Yamamoto
- Lee Galuska
- Linsey Weigt
- Paulette Madley
2022 DAISY Lifetime Achievement
- Jocelyn Miel
- Julie Creaser
- Rose Healy
- Shiow Hwang
- Valerie Yeo
2022 DAISY Team Award
Ambulatory
Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
- Discharge Lounge Team
- The Nurses of 8ICU
UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
- 2020 Oncology Infusion Center
- 4NW Nursing and The Arizona Surgery Team
- Main Operating Room Unit Practice Council
UCLA Health
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2021 Individual Award
- Allyza Afable
- Devon Ballentine
- Julie Hittleman
- Dahlia Maldonado
- David Organista
- Vanessa Patino
- Desiree Quebral
- MeiLani Renger
2021 DAISY Leadership Award
2021 DAISY Lifetime Achievement
2021 DAISY Team Award
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Learn how UCLA Health Daisy Award nominees have made a difference in patient care!
2020 DAISY Award
- Scott Abcarian
- Izabela Araujo
- Erica Ascencio
- Allegra Bell
- Shelley Klein
- Paul Ksendz
- Jade Macaraig
- Diane Santos
- Robert Yeranosyan
2020 DAISY Leadership Award
2020 DAISY Lifetime Achievement
- Barbara Anderson
- Sandra Dewar
- Sheri Monsein
- Annette Reed
2020 DAISY Team Award
UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
Read how UCLA Health Daisy Award nominees have made a difference in patient care!
2019 DAISY Award
- Rene Abarca
- Andrew Baird
- Caitin Borja
- Danielle Everson
- Catherine Glass
- Lindsey Haleck
- Mithun Mahinda
- Jacob Merkel
- Pamela Miner
- Diana Ramos
- Samantha Thomas
Other Recent Awardees
- Adrienne Creamer
- Era Hawk
- Chessa Kabiling
- Leora Shachat
- Katrina Tavakkoli
- Melinda Vorpahl
- Jan Salveron
- Ma Celeste Teddy
- Randal "Randy" Lawrence
- Darlene Addison
- Terrin Clark
- Joanne Howe
- Yesenia Valle
- Sima Amajadian
- Mae Redila D'Amore
- Ileana Fonta
- Janine Le Roy
- Eunha Choi
- Elizabeth Montegrande
- Tina Rajabi
- Patricia Kirby
- Sharona Attar
- Team Snow Day
For a complete list of UCLA Health DAISY Award honorees, visit the Daisy Foundation website. The link is external and opens in a new window - search "UCLA"
For comments or questions, contact:
Karyn Greenstone
Operations Manager
CENTER for Nursing Excellence
DAISY Award Program Coordinator
310-267-3313
Cultivating Excellence in Nursing Through Education and Research