Texas Children's Awarded Inaugural Survivorship Champion's Prize
First row: Amanda Peña, MPH, APRN, FNP-C; ZoAnn Dreyer, MD; M. Monica Gramatges, MD, PhD
Second row: Katie Greenwood, MD; Omar Shakeel, MD; Austin Brown, PhD, MPH; Alicia Howell, RN, MSN, FNP-C, CPHON
Not pictured: Shiley Aguilar, RN, MSN, FNP-C; Kiran Reddy, MD; Michael Gleason, MD
Children’s Cancer Cause is proud to name Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers Long-Term Survivor Program as the 2020 recipient of the inaugural Survivorship Champion’s Prize, in recognition of the Program’s innovative work to provide comprehensive, integrated care for childhood cancer survivors.
The newly-established Survivorship Champion’s Prize is to be presented annually to a group, program or institution making significant advances in programs and services to provide life-long health maintenance for survivors of pediatric cancers.
“The groundbreaking work at Texas Children’s is serving as a model for survivorship programs and services across the country,” said Children’s Cancer Cause Program Director Julie Taylor. “Their efforts are maximizing quality of life for childhood cancer survivors, furthering research on late effects, and educating survivors with critical resources and tools like Passport for Care.”
The $10,000 Survivorship Champion’s Prize recognizes the importance of the unique challenges associated with post-treatment services for these survivors, especially as they transition to non-oncology adolescent and/or adult health care services.
“Our team is so honored to be selected for this year’s Champion’s Prize and grateful for the opportunity made possible through this generous donation to support programs for our diverse population of survivors,” said Dr. Maria Monica Gramatges, Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Long-Term Survivor Program.
Thanks to the generosity of the Stewart family, three other top-scoring applicants are also being recognized with smaller awards in special categories of distinction:
For Impact: The HEROS Clinic for Childhood Cancer Survivorship at Yale School of Medicine;
For Collaboration: Children’s Wisconsin Next Steps Survivorship Program; and
For Scalability: LITE Program for Pediatric Cancer Survivors at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
The Survivorship Champion’s Prize is a component of The Stewart Initiative for Childhood Cancer Survivors, a new program of the Children’s Cancer Cause, launching on October 26th.