Oncology Excellence Awards

The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center awarded its 2004 Oncology Nursing Excellence Awards and Clinical Services Excellence Awards to six staff members at an October 27 reception.. The awards are in recognition of excellence in care for cancer patients.

Barbara Kok received the top Oncology Nursing Excellence Award, and Dawn Hardison took top honors for the Clinical Services Excellence Award.

Also receiving nursing honors were Sylvia Wrenn and Tina Shaban. Laura Miller and Shirley Gentry received honorary Clinical Services Excellence Awards.
Barbara Kok is the lead nurse for the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Outpatient Clinic. Sylvia Wrenn is the nurse coordinator for the Head and Neck Oncology Program. Tina Shaban is the coordinator for the Patient and Family Resource Center.

Dawn Hardison is a clinical business associate in the pediatric, adult hematology/oncology and surgical oncology clinics. Laura Miller is program assistant for the Head and Neck Oncology Program and the Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Program. Shirley Gentry is the pharmacy technician for oncology outpatient clinics.

The Oncology Nursing Excellence Award is named in memory of Charmayne Gray, a UNC Lineberger oncology nurse who died in a car accident in 2002.

All the clinical services award nominees were recognized.

Dr. Richard Goldberg, associate director of UNC Lineberger, chief of the division of hematology/oncology and director of oncology services for UNC Health Care, presented the service award to Dawn Hardison.

Dr. Goldberg with Shirley Gentry

 

Dr. Goldberg with Laura Miller.

All the nursing award nominees.

Bobbi Marks with Sylvia Wrenn

Bobbi Marks with Tina Shaban

Bobbi Marks with Barbara Kok

(l-r) Bobbi Marks, administrative director, oncology services; Dr. Shelley Earp, director, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; Justin Gray, Charmayne Gray’s son; Barbara Kok, winner Charmayne Gray Oncology Nursing Excellence Award winner; William Gray, Charmayne Gray’s husband.