The Annual Kenneth B. Schwartz Compassionate Healthcare Dinner

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 2024 Kenneth B. Schwartz Compassionate Healthcare Dinner in Boston to celebrate and recognize the healthcare community!

Thanks to the generous gifts from our guests and donors, in addition to the extraordinary support from our corporate sponsors, we raised an astonishing $1,036,000. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

If you have any questions, please contact us at events@theschwartzcenter.org.

 

View the 2024 Dinner Program Book

 

 

Dinner Chairs

Kevin B. Churchwell, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital
Brent L. Henry, Member, Mintz 
Thomas H. Lee, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey

Event Committee

Ellen Cohen, MSW, Founder, Schwartz Center Board
Wendy Cohen, LICSW
Robert Coughlin, Managing Director, JLL
Ethan Crain, Managing Director, Northeast Health Practice Leader, Marsh McLennan
Mishele and Robert Fields, Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health 
Betsy Pingree Frawley and James M. Litton
Elizabeth Maringer and Jay Shiland, Partner, MTS Health Partners LP
Sharon McNally, CEO, Camp Harbor View Foundation
Ann Muschett and Michael Blau, Former Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
Kendalle Burlin O’Connell, Esq., Chief Executive Officer & President, MassBio
Christopher D. Palmieri, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Care Alliance
Mark Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer, CRICO
Peter Slavin, MD, President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Health System
Colette and Daniel Stanzler, Portfolio Manager, Beaumont Financial Partners, LLC
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler
Elizabeth Vernaglia, PhD, and Lawrence Vernaglia, Partner, Foley and Lardner LLP
Peter and Ellen Zane

National Business Members
Chairman Circle
CRICO
Massachusetts General Hospital  
Mintz
 
Executive Circle
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Marsh McLennan
 

Leader Circle

Bank of America
Benchmark Senior Living
MedPro Group
 
National Compassionate Caregivers of the Year® Award Sponsor

CRICO

Visionary - $100,000+

Ellen Cohen and Daniel Haber

Champion - $50,000-$74,999

Anonymous 
Marjorie and Paul Stanzler 

Platinum - $35,000-$49,999

Anonymous
Ellen Feldberg Gordon and Michael Gordon 

Gold - $20,000-$34,999

Anonymous
Michael Blau and Ann Muschett
Patricia A. Bresky Family Foundation
Stephen Corman
CRC Wholesale Group
Fran and Michael Goldberg
Minnie Baylor-Henry and Brent Henry
Jean Karpas Siegel Fund at The Boston Foundation
Point32Health
Tufts Medicine
Lynn Wiatrowski and Joren Madsen, MD

Silver - $10,000-$19,999

Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease
American Hospital Association
Aon Risk Services
Arnold & Porter
Rana Awdish, MD, FACCP, and Randy Awdish
Robyn Begley, DNP
Bergman Family Foundation
Robert Bergman
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Boston Children’s Hospital
The Boston Foundation – Judy Swahnberg-Carl Novotny Donor Advised Fund
Brown & Brown
The Chartis Group
Wendy and Richard Cohen
Coverys
Ethan E. Crain
Diedrich & Donohue, LLP
Andrew Dreyfus
Eastern Bank
Epstein Becker & Green, PC
Faggiano & Associates, PC
Rushika and Maria Fernandopulle
Foley & Lardner LLP
Soheyla Gharib, MD, and Thomas Lee, MD
Hamel Marcin Dunn Reardon & Shea, PC
Henry Ford Health
Highland Street Foundation
Ann-Ellen Hornidge, Esq., and Ned Murphy
Jean and Brian Kilduff
Ruth Kilduff, RN,* and Jay Carrigan
Ruth G. Koblenzer*
Pamela Mann and David Baron, MD
The Mann Family Foundation
Elizabeth Maringer and Jay Shiland
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Sharon and Brian McNally
Middleton & Company, Inc.
Mintz
Mirick O’Connell
Murphy & Riley
Angela Patterson, DNP
Polaris Founders Capital
Glenn Pomerantz, MD, JD
Ritu Trivedi-Purohit, PsyD, and Paresh Purohit
Mark Reynolds and Clare Reilly
Ropes & Gray LLP
South Shore Health
Daniel and Colette Stanzler
Tony and Kathy Starr
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
William J. and Lia G. Poorvu Family Foundation
Peter and Ellen Zane

Bronze - $5,000-$7,499

AHIP
Joanne and Kevin Barrett
Baystate Health
Boston Medical Center
Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Eaton
Howard Cohen and Myra Musicant
The Colony Group
Commonwealth Care Alliance
Robert and Christine Coughlin
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jessica Dudley, MD
Emerson Health
The Fischman Family (Nancy and Steven, Ben and Wendy, Laura Fischman and Tony Schwenson)
Betsy P. Frawley and James M. Litton
Linnea and Niyum Gandhi
Feng Ge
Michael Gustafson, MD, and Scott Quint
Sally Jackson
The Joint Commission
Samantha Kingsbury Brown
Larry and ML Krakauer
Leslie and William Lee
Dick Marks and Jennifer Morrison
MassBio
Joyce Murphy and Bill Melanson*
Beth Sampath
Peter L. Slavin, MD, and Lori G. Pearlman
Southcoast Health
Michael and Audrey Straight
Sturdy Health
UMass Chan Medical School & ForHealth Consulting
UMass Memorial Health
Larry Vernaglia
Wendy Warring, JD, and Troy Brennan, MD
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

Patron - $3,000-$4,999

Tom and Midge DeSimone  
Drs. Jon and Heidi DuBois 

 

 

*deceased

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