Honor Families and Family Nurses Program

Honor Families and Family Nurses is an initiative of IFNA’s Resource Advancement Committee to raise funds for supporting student participation in International Family Nursing Conferences. For our last conference (IFNC13, Pamplona Spain) we raised almost $10,000 through this program.  From those monies raised, eight students received a travel award to support their attendance at the 14th International Family Nursing Conference.

With your support of this program, we will be able to provide even greater support for students in the years ahead.

2019 Honorees

Each submission was accompanied by a $100 donation to IFNA. All those honored and their affiliated organization were recognized at the 14th International Family Nursing Conference (August 13 – 16, 2019 in Washington, D.C.).

In honor of all nurses who care for families.
The Catholic University of America, Conway School of Nursing

Julie M. Anderson, Winona State University sponsorship of IFNC14 and family nursing.
Sonja J. Meiers

Kathryn Anderson, IFNA leader, global mentor, ICON in family nursing.
Suzanne Feetham

Lamia Barakat, her dedication to children and their families through her clinical practice, research, and teaching and her support of family nursing.
Janet A. Deatrick

Maria do Céu Barbieri, inspirational leader who chaired the Practice Committee with unwavering dedication.
IFNA Practice Committee

Mary Bliesmer, she consistently supports initiatives to strengthen families in her community.
Sonja J. Meiers

Catherine “Kit” Chesla, lifelong contributions and leadership in family nursing.
Barbara Habermann

Mrs. Wendy Cooke and Family, truly inspirational NHS users, and partners in our research to develop complex self-management interventions for children with long-term/chronic conditions.
Veronica Swallow

Wendy Cooke, for unfailing wisdom and counsel as a Patient and Public Involvement co-applicant on our child & family research and co-author on resulting manuscripts.
Veronica Swallow

Manon Coulombe, for more than 10 years, she has been demonstrating her leadership in family nursing by publishing articles and organizing knowledge translation activities in her department to promote the practice of family nursing in palliative care.
Fabie Duhamel

Conference Planning Committee (CPC), as Co-Chairs, we honor the CPC for devoting the past 2 years to organizing all aspects of the conference!
June Horowitz & Sonja J. Meiers

Cindy Danford In memory of her beloved Dad, to recognize the extraordinary dedication and TLC she gave him at end of life and all through his life. And for her outstanding leadership of the International Research Collaboration Subcommittee of the IFNA Research Committee.
Helene Moriarty

Janet A. Deatrick, in recognition of her contributions to youth who are brain tumor survivors and their families.
George Knafl

Janet A. Deatrick, for being my fairy godmother and everything else!
Kim Mooney-Doyle

Janet A. Deatrick, always the number one mentor in the world.
Kyoko Kobayashi

Janet A. Deatrick, in recognition of her many contributions to family nursing research and her leadership on the Resource Advancement Committee.
Kathleen Knafl

Janet A. Deatrick, thank you for your incredible leadership and mentorship as Chair of RAC. You have taken us to new heights!
Linda Young

Barbara K. Giambra, her research of RN/family communication to improve child/patient well-being.
Stephanie Kohan

Catherine Gilliss, exceptional leadership in advancing Nursing and Family Nursing.
Kit Chesla

Pam Hinds, for her dedication to children and their families and her support of IFNC14.
Janet A. Deatrick

Pam Hinds, for having faith in me and offering endless encouragement!
Kim Mooney-Doyle

Naohiro Hohashi, for proposing the Concentric Sphere Family Environment Theory. (The society for the study of the Concentric Sphere Family Environment Theory, SSCSFET).
Naohiro Hohashi

Junko Honda, in recognition of her new position as an associate professor at Hyogo University.
Kathleen Knafl

June Horowitz, for her international leadership and deep commitment to IFNA over many years, and for sharing her expertise and kindness with all family nurses.
Helene Moriarty

June Horowitz, has served tirelessly as Co-Chair of IFNA’s Conference Planning Committee for IFNC13 and IFNC14. Thank you June for your dedicated service. You are amazing!
Jane Lassetter

Lee Hsiu-Ju, excellence in practice and implementing FCC in psychiatric nursing.
Lee Hsiu-Ju

Maddie Julian, she and her partner developed and continue to refine the multi-award winning Digibete web-app when their little boy Otis was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes as a toddler. It is a very valuable resource for children, young people, families and health care professionals.
Veronica Swallow

IFNA 2017 – 2019 Board of Directors, for gracious service on behalf of IFNA! Dedicated colleagues, all!
Sonja J. Meiers

Immigrant and Refugee Families Everywhere, for their strength and family love during suffering times.
Sonja J. Meiers

George Knafl, a distinguished statistician for family nurses around the world.
Junko Honda

Kathleen Knafl, on receiving the prestigious 2018 University of Illinois at Chicago Alumni Achievement Award.
Agatha M. Gallo

Kathleen Knafl, many contributions to IFNA and substantial work for the conference over many years.
George Knafl

Kathleen Knafl, for her ongoing contributions to IFNA and family nursing. Dr. Knafl continues to be an outstanding family researcher and educator, as well as an amazing mentor to her students and colleagues.
Marcia Van Riper

Kathleen Knafl, a reliable friend and mentor and treasurer extraordinaire!
Jane Lassetter

Kathleen Knafl, for outstanding mentorship and innovation, improving the lives of families.
Barbara Giambra

Kathleen A. Knafl, for her long history of supporting research of families and for her generous and kind mentorship of many IFNA members.
Helene Moriarty

Lynn C. Kuechle, for sustained and enthusiastic leadership and coordination of the Glen Taylor Institute for Nursing and Society at MN State University, Mankato.
Mary Bliesmer

Cheryl A. Lapp, for her leadership and scholarship in family nursing at UWEC-College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Linda Young

Jane Lassetter, for her mentoring throughout my President-Elect service and IFNA leadership.
Sonja J. Meiers

Jane Lassetter, a global leader for family nursing. Her leadership as IFNA’s president and commitment to nursing education internationally are major contributions to family nursing and health.
June Horowitz

Maureen Leahey, a pioneer in Family Nursing and to celebrate her 75th birthday!
Lorraine M. Wright

Carol Loveland-Cherry, she promotes the highest educational standards and exemplifies excellent mentorship.
Carolyn Sampselle

Carol Loveland-Cherry, scholar, mentor, visionary, family intervention research, IFNA leader.
Ada Sue Hinshaw

Carol Loveland-Cherry, IFNA leadership, mentor, visionary family researcher.
Ada Sue Hinshaw

Carol Loveland-Cherry, leader in IFNA Family, scholar, researcher, mentor, visionary.
Suzanne Feetham

Carol Loveland-Cherry, my mentor and introduced me to my first family nursing conference in 2000 (IFNC5).
Wendy Looman

Carol Loveland-Cherry, tremendous educator, researcher, and gifted Nurse Leader.
Anne Snowdon

Carol Loveland-Cherry, her commitment to family focused research and mentoring students and colleagues.
Joanne Pohl

Carol Loveland-Cherry, in recognition of a distinguished career committed to family nursing and her support for IFNA from the very beginning.
Kathleen Knafl

Carol Loveland-Cherry, for her IFNA leadership and her contributions as a family scholar and researcher.
Melissa Saftner

Carol Loveland-Cherry, a marvelous mentor, a magnificent role model, her unwavering support.
Tsui-Sui Annie Kao

Carol Loveland-Cherry, for her contributions to family nursing care and inspiring future generations of nurse scientists and leaders in advancing family nursing.
Michael L. Williams

Sonja J. Meiers, she is an international family nursing leader. She has served as IFNA president-elect and co-chair of IFNA’s Conference Planning Committee for the past 2 years. She also has led IFNA’s international research collaboration initiative via the Research Committee.
June Horowtiz

Sonja J. Meiers, a devoted family nurse and capable global leader.
Jane Lassetter

Kim Mooney-Doyle, for inspiring Japanese colleagues.
Kyoko Kobayashi

Sarah Neill, great influencer in UK’s children, young people and family nursing.
Christine English

Birte Østergaard, principal organizer and Head of the growing Danish Family Nursing Association from 2013-2019, emphasized family nursing as important on the Danish nursing map, excellent researcher, developed Danish family nursing education on different levels, including colleague in the international collaboration.
Karin Dieperink

Ken Peterson, he and his spouse Rick have adopted and created a beautiful family with Amena, Leo, and Max. They teach all of us how to be selfless, kind, generous and how to be good human beings. They inspire so many of us to do better!!
Susan Sullivan Bolyai

Barbara Preusse-Bleuler, for her passionate leadership of Family Systems Care in Switzerland and beyond.
Janice M. Bell

Diane Quinn, she is an incredible human being, mother, co-worker and friend. She is so kind, generous, and fun to work with and is one of the reasons I love working at UMMS!! She has an incredible family (3 healthy, happy emerging adults) that she has nurtured with her terrific husband Dan. What a pleasure to watch their family grow as a unit.
Susan Sullivan Bolyai

Roberta Rehm, commitment to improve health of children with complex health disorders.
Kit Chesla

Kathy Sawin, for her contributions to the profession of nursing during her career as a nurse educator and a nurse scientist, focusing on children with chronic illnesses. Her research has helped improve the care for children with spina bifida and other chronic conditions. Kathy knows nurses are critical to research because they tend to focus on different phenomenon than doctors, immersing themselves into investigating the family’s response to that condition. Nurses look at quality of life, pain, end-of-life care, coping enhancements or alternative ways to structure procedures. Kathy also mentors other new nurse scientists and supports the profession of nursing. Kathy has been a mentor to support the investigation of nursing interventions that make a difference in outcomes. We are so grateful to Kathy and honor her exemplary contributions.
Kathy’s Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Nursing Colleagues

Vickie Stangel, in recognition and appreciation of her efforts to make our conference raffle a success and her support for children and families in Dodgeville, WI.
Kathleen Knafl

Veronica Swallow, in recognition of her research and leadership in founding the UK and Ireland IFNA chapter.
Kathleen Knafl

Trudeau Family, they have done such an awesome job raising 2 beautiful healthy young men (who have T1D) and have been so generous in sharing their experiences with me. Talk about community leaders, the whole family are always willing to help others trying to navigate diabetes self management.
Susan Sullivan Bolyai

Connie M. Ulrich, for years of support and guidance when I lacked faith in myself. And for inspiring my bioethics inquiry!
Kim Mooney-Doyle

Marcia Van Riper, in recognition of her research on resiliency in families of children with Down syndrome and her leadership in international family research.
Kathleen Knafl

Marcia Van Riper, in recognition of all her contributions to health and wellbeing of people with Down syndrome and their families.
George Knafl

Debra Wiegand, to honor a legacy as mentor, visionary researcher and international scholar in Family end of life decision making.
Suzanne Feetham

Debra Wiegand, in memory of her and her many accomplishments during her life.
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Debra Wiegand, honoring her untimely death this past year and her many contributions to family nursing, hospice and palliative care, critical care, and heart disease.
Janet A. Deatrick

Debra Wiegand, in recognition of her resolute and determined support for family nursing. She was the very best.
Kathleen Knafl

Debra Wiegand, she let her light shine and is sorely missed.
Kim Mooney-Doyle

Linda Young, in recognition of her leadership on the Resource Advancement Committee and support for family nursing among deans and directors.
Kathleen Knafl

Debbie Zaparoni, in recognition of all she does for IFNA. Debbie is the glue that holds us all together. She’s the best!
Kathleen Knafl

Click here for those that were honored in 2017.