2022 C2 Award Winners
Congratulations to our 2022 winners! We are honored to spotlight these individuals and organizations for their inspiring work to create a brighter future for people with cancer and their loved ones. Click their images below to watch videos about their work.
C2 Catalyst for Care Award
Sparrow’s Nest of the Hudson Valley
Represented by Krista Jones, Founder & Executive Director
Founded in 2012, Sparrow’s Nest provides weekly deliveries of homemade meals to families facing cancer in five counties of the Hudson Valley area of New York State. Sparrow’s Nest began as a personal commitment to helping a friend navigate her stage 4 cancer diagnosis and evolved into a charity that now feeds nearly 300 people each week. The charity began in founder Krista Jones’ home kitchen, feeding 16 people every week, and quickly grew. Within the first five years, Sparrow’s Nest moved to a commercial kitchen space and immediately expanded its mission and service area.
C2 Catalyst for Change Award
Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH
Endowed Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Equity at the Medical College of Wisconsin
Charles R. Rogers, PhD, is devoted to dismantling systems of oppression to ensure equitable health for all. His servant leadership has been honored via several awards and roles including currently being the inaugural Associate Director of Community Outreach & Engagement at the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center (MCWCC) and an MCWCC Research Scholar Endowed Chair. For more than 10 years, his research has contributed to translational solutions that address inequities in men’s health, with a focus on colorectal cancer injustices among African-American men and other underrepresented populations. His research foci include cancer health disparities, community-based implementation science, mixed methods, and survey methodology.
C2 Catalyst for Equity Award
Center for HOPE
Represented by David Wetter, PhD, Director of the Center for Health Outcomes & Population Equity (HOPE) at the University of Utah
The Center for Health Outcomes and Population Equity (HOPE) serves as an infrastructure and bridge between scientists and community organizations—including healthcare, government, education, and nonprofits—throughout Utah and the Mountain West. By bringing communities and researchers together, the Center for HOPE creates long-term solutions to prevent cancer and improve health among populations that have been historically marginalized. Their current projects address tobacco cessation, colorectal cancer screening, HPV vaccination, non-opioid pain management, obesity prevention, and COVID-19. The Center for HOPE envisions a Mountain West with equity in cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality.
C2 Catalyst for Precision Medicine Award
Marc R. Matrana, MD
Director of Precision Medicine, Ochsner Health
Marc R. Matrana, MD, is a ninth-generation native of New Orleans. He practices oncology at Ochsner Health, where he leads the cancer phase 1 clinical trials program, serves as System Director of Precision Medicine, and holds an Endowed Professorship in Experimental Therapeutics. His legislative advocacy work and leadership at the Cancer Advocacy Group of Louisiana (where he is Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board) has led to the passage of many laws to ensure Louisiana cancer patients have access to cutting-edge molecular diagnostics and therapies. He has conducted considerable ground-breaking research and authored hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and abstracts in genitourinary medical oncology.
President’s Award
Douglas Fair, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University of Utah
Douglas Fair, MD, joined the University of Utah faculty in 2016. His research interests include improved quality of life for oncology patients, better access to palliative care, and improved survivorship care. This includes work to provide fertility-preservation consultations for reproductive-age cancer patients who want to have children. His work on fertility-preservation treatments creates impacts at the local, regional, and national levels, including consulting with hundreds of patients and educating hundreds of providers in the Intermountain West. His legislative work on the expansion of Medicaid coverage of fertility preservation in Utah is being modeled throughout the country.
2022 Finalists
C2 Catalyst for Care Award
Finalists for this award bring high-quality cancer care to underserved populations. Consequently, their work drives change at the community-, neighborhood-, or hospital-level that results in better cancer care for more people.
C2 Catalyst for Change Award
Finalists for this award significantly improve care for people with cancer and their loved ones. As a result, the work of these finalists makes people’s experience as easy as possible during an extraordinarily difficult time.
C2 Catalyst for Equity Award
Finalists for this award have worked to overcome longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in cancer care, ensuring that all people have equitable access to quality care.
C2 Catalyst for Precision Medicine Award
Finalists for this award significantly advance precision medicine in oncology to bring new, more personalized tests or treatments to people with cancer. As such, these finalists enhance the ability to provide the right treatment for the right patient at the right time.
