Announcing 150 Sages Winners - Celebrating 20 Years!

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2,237 Nominations and 150 Winners

Sages winners represent 12 clinical disciplines and 8 collaborative non-clinician winning colleagues. Winners represent four countries and a significant number of US states. 2024 includes three Quality and Patient Safety Winners for the first time!


Sages of Clinical Services Awards Ceremony - 20th Anniversary

A celebration of the 150 Sages winners will take place in Bloomington, MN at the Mall of America.


Illuminating Excellence: 20 Years of Recognition

Over the last 20 years, more than 1,000 people were named a Sages of Clinical Services Award winner, here are the names. Over that time, there have been more than 10,000 nominees.  We want to recognize those that are already winners and share the 150 new names that will be added to this growing list of Sages.

2024 Winners ​​​​​​​by Segments

Names with a (C) are Collaboration Winners, also listed at the bottom

Names with a (Q) are Quality and Patient Safety Winners, also listed at the bottom

Optum Care Delivery 

Alicia Beardsley
Jacqueline Bresler
Garry Carlos
Karen K. Christian
Rachelle Dulay
Valerie Green-Amos
Wendy Grose
Michelle Hernandez
Joy Hong
Martha Hoshaw
Samantha Jewell
Rebecca Kulgren (C)
Cheryl Lake
Faith Lee-Jackson
Jennifer Markey
Helen Mitropoulos
Bryan Roy
Tai M. Samuels
Shawn Slack (C)
Indira Soto-Aybar
Nikki Takeya
Ashley Thompson
Amy Turner
Lizette Vela
Kristen Wyrick

Optum Care Solutions

Jane Allen
Maggie Berolo
Rachael Cosby
Robert Fossitt
Dana Hammel
Hae Jin Hong
Kimberly Jensen
Assumpta Kagaba
Carl Laguerre
George Lorenzo
Asya Love
Sylvia Parker
Amanda Puhal
Melissa Reed
Aimee Rohrer-Kraemer
Jamie Rojas
Susan Sanner
Charla Scheve
Annette Simiriglia
Joseph Tee
Aaron Thomas
Megan Warden
 

Optum Global Advantage

Isid Bryan Adefuin
Angelo James Banas
Fil Amee Palma
Princess Jane Rosito
Edmund Rotairo
Robert Tabasan
Myna Jemima Taguinod 


Optum Health Services

Mariah Draeger
Lauren Dyer
Ellen Gallman
Katelyn Steele

Optum OH Risk Ops & Ent Clin Srvcs

Michelle Adler (C) 
Christa Brandon
Jessica Coleman
Amanda Collazo
Anhthu Dang
Rebecca Deryck
Devin Hall
Lisa Hill
Anna Kacprzynska
Mark Kemble 
Michael Krejci
Amanda Lagona
Stephanie Liedel
Virginia Lozar
Mandy Maitland
Ma Anna Teresa Mapa
Kimberly Martin
Desiree Martinez
Elizabeth Mcdaniel
Ashley Mills
Jennifer Moy
Lucy Noel
Jessica Oddo
Lindsay Perkins
Shannon Ryszka
Lauren Seipel
Alexandria Sparks
Marcus Villarreal

Optum Technology

Abhishek Chowdhury (C) 


OptumInsight

Patti Batten
Alyson Forester
Shawn Lance

OptumRx

Trevor Beal
Blake Cahail
Marie Carter
Alicyn Church
Marlys Cooper
Elizabeth Evans
Celeste Fox
Yi Guo (C) 
Chrisoula Harris
Melissa Hunt
Michael Kirby
Sandy Le
James Mcafee
Muhammad Mirza (C) 
Alana Natanauan
Helya Nayebhosseini (C) 
Jacquelyn Oberman
Richard Parizek (C) 
Thai Park (C) 
Arash Sadeghi
Rita Schille
Jeremy Shaffer (C)
Nicholas Steffen
Yunga Vercelline (Q)
Izabella Villalvazo

UHC Clinical Services

Kimberly Ashbrook
Michele Oswald
Ashley Spiczka (C) 

UHC Community & State

Stephen Brady (Q)
Susan Downs
Judith Falco
Carlos Garcia (C)
Samantha Gilligan
Kristen Mckenney
Maria Morales
Katie Nease
Lisa Reuter
Nancy Sullivan (Q) 
Angelica Weber (C)

UHC E&I Global Solutions

Karie Kimpon 


UHC Employer & Individual

Terry Bahr (C)
Jennifer Fino (C)
Kelly Hall (C)
Carin Mehan (C)
Lauri Stevens
Julia Tarbet (C) 


UHC Medicare & Retirement

Dennis Hsieh (C)
Diane Huss
Courtney Johnson
Tori Johnson-Darby
Moheb Moussa (C)
Toni Powell (C) 


UnitedHealthcare Finance

Charles Stuckey (C)


UnitedHealthcare Global

Maria Del Rosario Forero Rozo
Pedro Emilio Moreno Sierra
Georgina Pavez
Martha Lucia Peña
Sara Salina
Maria José Valdés Zapico (C)
Tays Vallejos Labra (C) 
 

Collaboration

Michelle Adler, OH Risk Ops & Ent Clin Srvcs &
Abhishek Chowdhury, Optum Technology


Terry Bahr, UHC Employer & Individual &
Kelly Hall, UHC Employer & Individual
 

Carlos Garcia, UHC Community & State &
Angelica Weber, UHC Community & State


Carin Mehan, UHC Employer & Individual &
Jennifer Fino, UHC Employer & Individual


Muhammad Mirza, OptumRx &
Yi Guo, OptumRx


Helya Nayebhosseini, OptumRx &
Jeremy Shaffer, OptumRx


Thai Park, OptumRx &
Richard Parizek, OptumRx


Toni Powell, UHC Medicare & Retirement &
Moheb Moussa, UHC Medicare & Retirement


Shawn Slack, Optum Care Delivery &
Rebecca Kulgren, Optum Care Delivery
 

Charles Stuckey, UnitedHealthcare Finance &
Dennis Hsieh, UHC Medicare & Retirement


Julie Tarbet, UHC Employer & Individual &
Ashley Spiczka, UHC Clinical Services


Maria José Valdés Zapico,
UnitedHealthcare Global &
Tays Vallejos Labra, UnitedHealthcare Global


Quality and Patient Safety

Individual Winner -

Yunga Vercelline, OptumRx


Collaboration Winners -

Stephen Brady & Nancy Sullivan,
UHC Community & State