Light Up the Night

The Wegmans School of Nursing celebrates and recognizes Fisher Nurses of the past, present, and future during the annual Light Up the Night event.

Light Up the Night 2024 Awardees

We celebrate the exceptional individuals recognized at the 2024 event.

Fisher Nurse Impact Award, Direct Patient Care

• Kyra Burns
• Stephanie McBride

This award recognizes a Fisher Nurse who provides expert, compassionate, and ethical direct patient care and whose leadership contributes to the advancement of nursing practice. This nurse serves as an inspirational role model for others.

Fisher Nurse Impact Award, Community

This award recognizes a Fisher Nurse who acts as an advocate for all and contributes significantly to the betterment of the community, collaborates with other health care and community-based organizations, and demonstrates excellence in caring behaviors that positively impact the community. The recipient can be from any of the specialty areas of nursing.

Fisher Nurse Scholar Award

• Melissa Bourne

This award recognizes a Fisher Nurse who engages in intellectual inquiry, making significant contributions through research and innovation for the improvement of nursing science.

Fisher Nurse Rising Star Award

• Brendan Corey

This award recognizes a Fisher Nurse who has been practicing for two years or less who demonstrates a strong commitment to the profession through providing inclusive, ethical, compassionate care while seeking out new knowledge to improve nursing practice.

Fisher Nurse Transformational Leadership Award

• Mary Alice Terboss, NP

This award recognizes a Fisher Nurse who fosters a team approach to patient care and/or population care, who understands and respects the diversity of patients, families, and members of the health care team, and positively reflects the image of nursing throughout the healthcare systems and/or community.

Distinguished Achievement Award

• Maureen Krenzer

This is the highest award given to a member of the Fisher Nurse community. This honor recognizes an individual’s outstanding and sustained contributions to the nursing profession and the Wegmans School of Nursing.

Excellence in IDD Care

• Marcie McMahon, DNP

Past Awardees