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      Honorary Membership

      Acknowledge someone who has greatly contributed to the advancement of nursing

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      Nominations are now closed.


      Purpose

      Since 1939, Sigma has bestowed honorary membership upon individuals of national or global influence who have furthered the course of healthcare. Honorary membership is conferred by Sigma’s Board of Directors on those who demonstrate superior achievement in a chosen field and a special commitment to the ideals and concerns of nursing.

      Eligibility

      Honorary membership is granted to non-nurses throughout the world who are not eligible for regular membership but have demonstrated sustained superior achievements that have contributed to the advancement of nursing and healthcare at the national or global levels.

      Any active Sigma member or chapter may nominate an individual for honorary membership.

      Award Cycle

      Nominations are now closed.

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      Honorary Member Spotlight

      Walter Ulrich was one of 16 people at the 47th Biennial Convention honored with honorary membership in Sigma. It acknowledges the work of those who have a sustained national or global impact on nursing and healthcare. Medical Bridges was honored with the Archon Award, which recognizes individuals or groups regardless of profession who have made health a major aspect of their work and created significant change that is national or transnational in scope.

      Read about Walter's passion for health equity »

      Honorary Members

      Honorary Members

      Heather Becker

      Bill Cessato

      Patricia Coleman-Burns

      Jody Dalton

      Emily Logan

      Mark Lombardi

      Jonathan Morgan

      Koy Parada

      Ken Schindler

      Scott Shaw

      Kylie Smith

      Bruce Springer

      Ian J. Turpin

      Walter Ulrich

      Nicole Wertheim

      Dana Woods

      Diana J. Mason

      William E. Conway, Jr.

      Vicki S. Hertzberg

      Julie Watson

      Brandon Qualls

      Ivo D. Dinov

      Felicia Schanche Hodge

      Rob Stephenson

      Elizabeth VandeWaa

      2019

      Caroline Marian Santos Enriquez

      Catherine Robinson-Walker

      2017

      Christopher Capot

      Erika Friedmann

      Laura Gitlin

      Sara McComb

      Gita Mishra

      Victoria Mitrani

      Tom Popcheff

      Katherine Rouleau

      Bei Wu

      Karen Wyche

      2015

      Kathi Anderson

      Bonnie and Mark Barnes

      Wafaa El-Sadr

      Ed Hales

      Barbara and Donald Jonas

      Carolyn Jones

      Lenora Kinzie

      Chris Myburgh

      Freda Robinson

      Laura Sands

      2013

      Lynette Coetzee

      Joanna Fillweber

      Susan E. Hickman

      Dan Kaseje

      Tom Reller

      Carolyn Miller

      Margie Wilson

      2011

      Jeff Arnold

      Renu Dhasmana

      Swami Ram Nagar

      Kenneth Hepburn

      Tore Laerdal

      Gladys McGarey

      Daniel B. Oerther

      2009

      Denise F. Polit

      Monica Sharma

      HRH Princess Muna Al Hussein, Jordan

      Norman H. Volk

      2007

      David B. Cooper

      Barry La Forgia

      David L. Olds

      Donald M. Berwick

      Paul E. Farmer

      Kathleen F. Norr

      Roy Simpson

      2005

      Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona

      Diane Carlson Evans

      Nancy Lorenzi

      Barbara J. Safriet

      Honorable Louis Stokes

      John L. Wright

      William E. Wright

      R. Ernest Waaser

      Mary Ann Tuft

      Masato Tsukahara

      2003

      Sandra Bertman

      Nancy Lewin

      Marion J. Ball

      2001

      Alex Attewell

      Erik Edward Joh, Esq

      Eugene Levine

      James P. Smith

      2000

      Yuri Leonidovich Shevchenko

      1999

      William G. Bartholome

      Monique Bégin

      Beverly Friedson Bodker

      Suzanne Gordon

      Adele Coryell Hall

      Congresswoman, Carolyn McCarthy

      Diana Natalicio

      Margaret Wright

      1997

      Gerald L. Bepko

      Leighton Cluff

      Dan Ent

      Florence Nightingale, posthumous

      J. Kevin Nugent

      Virginia Olesen

      Patricia K. Scheerle

      Robert Wolders

      1995

      Roberta L. Bondar

      Joy H. Carlson

      Lynne A. Farr

      Gary D. Hales

      David Hamburg

      Patti Kishline

      Beatrice Renfield

      Susan M. Reverby

      Patricia Turner

      1993

      Jo Ann Crow

      Alice J. Dan

      John T. Dill

      Patrick De Leon

      Norma Matheson

      Darlene Mood

      Deborah H. Oakley

      Steven V. Owen

      Donna Shalala

      David Wallace

      T. Franklin Williams

      Louise Woerner

      1991

      Rosemary Berkel Crisp

      Saul J. Farber

      Margie Wolcott May

      Leonard W. Poon

      Marguerite Schaefer

      Ursula Springer

      1989

      Nancy Evans

      Lawrence H. Ganong

      C. Wayne Hawkins

      Doris A. Howell

      Glenn W. Irwin, Jr.

      Kathleen A. Knafl

      John Phillip McGovern

      Maryellen McSweeney

      Mitchell T. Rabkin

      Alan S. Trench

      Kenneth A. Wallston

      1987

      Jose R. Coronado

      Sandra G. Funk

      Margaret E. Kuhn

      Doris H. Merritt

      Diane J. Skiba

      1985

      W. Lee Conant, Jr.

      Senator Daniel K. Inouye

      Lucie Baines Johnson

      Nellie Lee Powell

      1983

      Fred Davis

      Barbara Jacobsen

      Philip A. Kalisch

      Gene E. Lynn

      Jerome P. Lysaught

      Geraldine V. Padilla

      Mary L. Pekarski

      Mary Ann Swain

      Elizabeth Muse Tornquist

      1981

      Rosalie Abrams

      Marilyn Goldwater

      Ida V. Moffett

      Donna Vredevoe

      Pauline Gratz

      1969

      Jessie Scott

      1967

      Lulu Hassenplug

      1963

      Leo Simmons

      Elizabeth Soule

      1959

      Ruth Freeman

      1954

      Pearl McIver

      Ruth Sleeper

      1948

      Ruth V. Johnston

      1945

      H. Phoebe Gordon

      1941

      Nellie X. Hawkinson

      1940

      Adda Eldredge

      Dorothy Rood

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