Population Health Pioneer Award Recipients
We are recognizing local population health champions for their outstanding work in healthcare at the 2023 Signify Symposium.
The Population Health Pioneer Awards are presented each year to honor those who have best served their patients, their community, and the healthcare industry through their leadership, dedication, and innovation over the past year.
2023 Population Health Pioneer Award Winners
Community Level Recipients
2023 Community of the Year
2023 Community of the Year
2023 Award for Rural Innovation and Wellness
Individual Level Recipients
ACO Champion of the Year
Joleen Carper, Tri-State Memorial Hospital
Physician Leader of the Year
Dr. Jonathan Thorp, Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic
Jonathon Thorp MD MBA FACP Dip-ABLM is passionate about the care of complex internal medicine patients and always looking at ways to increase access to care and to better serve his community. Dr. Thorp grew up on a farm in Western Canada, graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He spent four years working in Nepal in a semi-remote non-profit hospital after which he moved to Guam, where he is currently employed. His is the Assistant Medical Director at the Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic and co-leader of the Population Health team with Mr. Andrew Porter. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and their energetic 6, 4, and 2-year old children; growing microgreens and experimenting with hydroponics; and he is training for his first marathon in what little time he has left.
Population Health Nurse of the Year
Tamara Laws, Population Health Nurse
I’ve been a nurse for 15 years. I graduated from Regis University in 2005 with my BSN. I love working with people and going the extra mile to ensure they feel as though they have been heard. My focus for most of my career has been home health and hospice. Since COVID started I have dedicated my time and energy to helping bridge the gap in patient care needs by becoming a population health nurse.