Awards
- Buchwald Spirit Award for Public Awareness, National Hospice Foundation, 2012
- Art Buchwald award, The Washington Home and Community Hospices, 2011
- Best of award for article in the journal, Narrative Matters: “Hospice and the ‘End Game’” from the Family Caregiver Alliance, 2011
- Helen Thomas award for Excellence in Journalism, American News Women’s Club, 2010
- Global Communications Award in honor of Outstanding International Journalism, World Affairs Council, 2009
- Passion for Caring honoree, Capital Hospice, 2008
- Hall of Fame, Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Society, 2008
- American Women in Communications, 2008, Matrix award
- Exceptional Women in Publishing Award, 2006
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Upcoming Appearances
May 15 – Appearance on the Diane Rehm show, which runs on NPR stations across the country – I will be talking about my new book, “Selecting a President,” co-authored with Matthew Spieler, and I will be on with Sam Popkin, author of “The Candidate: What it takes to Win – and Hold – the White House”
May 19 – I will receive an honorary degree from Westfield University in Pittsfield, Mass
May 30 – Keynote Speaker at the Silent Sentinel event for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial
June 5 – Health Policy Roundtable – Detroit Public Television
June 11 – League of Women Voters -- political panel, Washington DC
June 13 – Medical Musical Group evening concert, Baltimore, Md

