Health Care Champion Award Recipients

2023
Blake Charlton, MD, FACCC, FSCAI
Jared Murdock, MD
Laurie J. Bleicher, MD, FACS, FRCS(C)
T. Frank Box, CBIS
2022
Sleep Centers of Alaska
Peak Neurology & Sleep Medicine
Owen Bell, MD, APC
Benjamin Belfiglio, DDS – Solstice Dentistry
Spalding Dental
Robert Lerner, DDS
Holy Evans – Alaska Premier Dental Group
Heather Kaufman, DPM, PACFAS – Anchorage Foot & Ankle Clinic
Alan K. Swenson, MD – Orthopedic Physicians Alaska
Alec Kay, MSPT, DMT, OCS, ATC, FAAOMPT – United Physical Therapy
Noel Rea, CEO – Alaska Psychiatric Institute
Mary P. DeMers, DO
Cindy Glider
Christopher Gay, MD – Alaska Center for Pain Relief
2021
Melynda Bottorff – ANHC Dental Clinic
Alaska Digestive & Liver Disease
Providence Family Medicine Center
Justin E. Carricaburu, DO
Mint Dental
Alaska Center for Ear, Nose & Throat
Internal Medicine Associates
2020
Mary Stewart, MD – Alaska Oncology & Hematology
John Halligan, MD – PAMC Radiation Oncology
Kenley Michaud, DDS – Northern Lights Dental Anesthesia, LLC
Netty Myers – Advanced Sonograms of Alaska, Inc.
Guy Burk, DMD – Anchorage Midtown Dental
Lyle Downing – Providence Imaging Center
Vicky Phillips – PAMC Infusion Center
Anthony Valdez – PAMC FICO Team
Jeanette Blais – Meritian Health
Carolann Weir – Women’s Care of Alaska
Michelle P. Thomas, MD
Hertha Monroe – Katmai Oncology Group
Ward Hinger, CEO – Imaging Associates
Kelly Thompson – Family First Dentistry
Mary Totten, MD – Aurora ENT
Todd Short – Anchorage Associates in Radiation Medicine
Bryan Shield – Alaska Urology
Cinderella Tollefsen, CEO – Alaska Trauma & Acute Care Surgery, LLC
Ward Hinger, CAO – Alaska Radiation Associates
Robert Craig, CEO – Alaska Heart & Vascular Institute
Gary Boss, RDMS, RDCS – Alaska Family Sonograms, Inc.
Jerome List, MD – Alaska Earn, Nose & Throat
Christopher Coplin, DMD – Alaska Dentistry for Kids, LLC
Marilyn Sandford, MD – Alaska Breast Care & Surgery, LLC