By Michelle Cioci Adams – Managing Editor, Buffalo Business First
Apr 4, 2024
The 25 winners of the sixth annual Excellence in Health Care awards make a difference in their workplace every day.
These high-achieving professionals in the health care industry are physicians, nurses, administrators, board members, advocates and researchers – all people whose work has improved the way the health system operates in Western New York hospitals, labs, clinics, nonprofits and health facilities.
The program is hosted by Buffalo Business First and platinum sponsors Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and Horizon Corporations.
An awards dinner will take place on June 13 in honor of these health care heroes.
The 2024 Excellence in Health Care honorees
- Karen Battaglia, principal psychologist, People Inc.
- Jill Bernstein, assistant director, Hearing Evaluation Services of Buffalo
- John Beyer, president and CEO, LIFE/PACE, Catholic Health
- Jamie Bono, partner, Rprt LLC
- Katie Brown, owner and speech-language pathologist, Neuro Speech Solutions
- Robert Cannata, senior vice president for business development and community crisis services, Spectrum Health and Human Services
- Kelley Clem, vice president of clinical education and patient advocacy, Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo
- Francesca Goodwin-Gidney, executive director, Buffalo Clinical Lab & Drug Testing Center
- Dr. Elizabeth Harding, family medicine physician, Jericho Road Community Health Center; clinical assistant professor, University at Buffalo
- Dr. Wesley Hicks Jr., chair of the Head and Neck/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Program, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Dr. Elizabeth Kapral, director of special needs dentistry, Department of Dentistry, Division of Oral Oncology and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Erie County Medical Center
- Michelle Kraus, administrator, Autumn View Health Care Facility, The McGuire Group
- Dr. Michael Landi, president and CEO, Invision Health
- Patricia Losito, dean of nursing, Trocaire College
- Brigid Maloney, partner, Health Care Team co-leader, Lippes Mathias LLP
- Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, chief medical officer, Dent Neurologic Institute; chief of neuro-oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Dr. Michael Mineo, executive vice president and chief medical officer, Kaleida Health
- Joshua Morra, medical director, Horizon Health Services
- Nikki O'Dierno, case management nurse, Nova Healthcare Administrators Inc.
- Dr. Thomas Russo, SUNY distinguished professor, Department of Medicine and professor and chief, infectious diseases, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- Jeffrey Sage, assistant athletics director for sports medicine and performance, Daemen University, Division of Athletics
- Allison Smith, director, pharmacy, Parkview Health Services LLC
- Dr. Navyugjit Virk, president and CEO, Great Lakes Anesthesiology PC
- Dr. Wendy Weinstein, unit chief of psychiatry, BryLin Hospital
- Dr. Breeann Wilson, owner and CEO, Pure Podiatry of WNY LLC
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