The 21st Annual Nashville Dinner of MS Champions (DOC)
Honoree: Dr. Colleen Conway-Welch
Dinner Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.: Dinner & evening program
Where: Belle Meade Country Club
Purpose: To honor Dr. Conway-Welch for her strong community presence and commitment to help find a cause and cure for multiple sclerosis. Proceeds from the dinner are used to provide client services in Tennessee and parts of Georgia, Arkansas and Mississippi (105 counties) and to continue research conducted on the national level to find the cause and cure of MS.
Recognition: The honoree, Dr. Conway-Welch will receive the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s highest recognition award: The Hope Award.
Hope Award: The Hope Award is the Mid South Chapter’s highest honor for outstanding civic and community service. The Dinner of MS Champions Honoree is a person who goes above and beyond by supporting the mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The Honoree is a community or corporate “hero” to be honored for their extraordinary business leadership, outstanding civic and community service and long-standing commitment to humanitarian endeavors.
Ticket Information:
Become a Patron Table Host: Dinner of MS Champions Patron Table Host are the driving force behind the success of this event. You can purchase a table for 10 and host friends, family members or peers or invite 10 people to purchase tickets and sit at your table. By taking the lead as a Table Host you are helping to raise funds and promote awareness about MS.
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Tickets for the 21st Annual Nashville DOC are $250 per person or $2,500 per table.
Each table seats 10 guests.
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Biography - Honoree, Dr. Colleen Conway-Welch:
Dr. Conway-Welch serves as Member of the Board of Trust at American Sentinel University. She has been Member of Medical Advisory Board of Healthline Networks Inc. since May 2006. She serves as Member of the Hospital Networks Advisory Board of The Patient Channel. She serves as Member of Advisory Committee at Alive Hospice, Inc. She serves as Member of Nursing Editorial Advisory Board at Zynx Health Incorporated. She served as Director of Quorum Health Group Inc. since April 1997. In her community role, Dr. Conway-Welch has served on the Board of Directors for the Nashville Symphony, chaired the “Report Card” Committee on Nashville Schools for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and is a Member of the Nashville Rotary. Dr. Conway-Welch has been certified as a nurse-midwife since 1971 and since January 1984 has been Professor of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, where she has been employed since 1984. She has been active in nursing practice and nursing education for over three decades.
In 2002, she was appointed by DHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to the Secretary's Council on Public Health Preparedness, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, and in 2006, was named by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; the premier graduate education program for military health care providers.Dr. Conway-Welch chaired the Middle Tennessee United Way annual campaign in 1999. Because of her international stature as a voice for the nursing profession, Dr. Conway-Welch has been previously called on to advise both President Reagan's 1988 Commission on HIV and the 1998 Congressional National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, the 2002 Advisory Council to Secretary Thompson on Public Health Preparedness and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid's Advisory Committee. She serves as a member of the Healthcare Leadership Council Board of Governors, and a founding member and former President of Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research, National Institute of Health. The former director of the nurse-midwifery graduate program and the chair of the division of parent-child nursing at the University of Colorado, Dr. Conway-Welch earned her Ph.D. in nursing from New York University and her M.S.N. from the Catholic University of America. She has received honorary doctorates from Cumberland University , Georgetown University and the University of Colorado School of Nursing.