Dr Billy Rosa wins Individual Recognition Award
Researcher William (Billy) Rosa is one of the winners of the Individual Recognition Award 2022 by the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) for his efforts to improve palliative care in his country and region.
“How deeply blessed we are to do this work,” said Billy, reacting to the award.
Dr Billy Rosa is currently the Chief Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
He is selected in the IAHPC 2022 Individual Recognition Award for the high-income country category.
He donated the $1000 award money back to IAHPC in the name of Dr. Paul Edward Farmer to continue expanding access to palliative care in the Lower Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Farmer, an American physician – popularly known as “the man who would cure the world” for providing free health care to people in the world’s poorest communities – died in his sleep from an acute cardiac event on February 21, 2022, at the age of 62.
Nominating Dr Billy Rosa for the award, Dr. Judith Paice wrote, “His dedicated leadership, mentorship, and organizational service has had both national impact in the U.S. and global impact for colleagues in LMICs. He is a tireless advocate for increasing nurse involvement in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”.
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