Skip to page content
Join CMA for full access to all of our benefits

*National

Annual Educational Conference 2025 Awards

September 22, 2025

Evangelium Vitae Award – Kathleen M. Raviele, M.D.

The Evangelium Vitae Award recognizes outstanding service to the Pro-Life Movement.

Dr. Raviele, a retired OB-GYN from the Atlanta area, has been involved with the CMA for many years. She was the conference chair for the 2007 AEC. She was president of the CMA in 2008. Since then, she has served in numerous roles for the CMA including serving on the National Board, as Chair of the FIRE Committee and as the CMA Consultant for the Pro-Life Secretariat of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. She has also served as volunteer medical director for the Pregnancy Aid Clinic for 10 years as well as the secretary for the Georgia Life Alliance. She is a member of the American Association of Pro-Life Ob-Gyns and completed the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s course on health care ethics in 2010.

Distinguished Guardian of Faith

The Distinguished Guardian of Faith Award is presented to members whose vocation of healing others exemplifies their faith and love of God—both personally and professionally. Their special service and dedication to the Mission of the Catholic Medical Association answers God’s call of discipleship and is a testament to their character. It is the honor of the Catholic Medical Association to present the Distinguished Guardian of Faith medallion as a symbol of service, dedication, and faith to the following recipients: 

Outstanding Guild Award

The Outstanding Guild Award is presented to the CMA Guild which surpasses expectations, and through its exceptional efforts, fulfills all five essential pillars.

The Catholic Medical Association of Central Ohio was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Guild Award for successfully engaging its members and the community to advance CMA’s mission. From holding evenings of reflection, a White Mass and other liturgical activities, as well as orchestrating educational events, such as NFP lectures, to promoting fellowship through dinners, receptions and a picnic, and serving the community through collaborating with the Order of Malta’s free clinic and collecting winter hats for donation to the homeless, we are proud to present the 2025 Outstanding Guild Award to the Catholic Medical Association of Central Ohio.

Additional Guild Awards

St. Luke Award (5 of 5 Pillars)

Pillars Certificate (3 of 5 Pillars)

Outstanding Chaplain Award

Father Robert D. Penhallurick, Chaplain of the Catholic Medical Association of Central Ohio Guild

Outstanding Student Chapter Award

The Outstanding Student Chapter Award is given to the student chapter which has effected meaningful change in its community.

From organizing speaker events and hosting group activities to promoting spiritual growth through weekly Bible study, monthly Theology on Tap, and the “Brewing Physicians in Faith Program,” as well as promoting service by volunteering at a pregnancy center and piloting a blood pressure clinic at a local parish, the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Student Chapter Award is the Trinity School of Medicine. Trinity’s accomplishments are even more impressive considering that this Student Chapter has only been in existence for one year.

2025 Linacre Award

Matthew Robert Dernbach, M.D.

Author of “Infinite Dignity of the Human Person: Implications for Health Systems”

August 2024

Poster Session Winners

Best Medical Student Poster

Spiritual Care in Medicine-Perspectives, Practices and Training Gaps:  A Survery of Catholic Medical Association Members by James F. Bathon, BS; Molly A. Bingham, BS; Jackson W. Appelt, BS; Kossivi L. A. Mignondje, BS; James L. Rogers, BS; Keith Meador, MD, ThM, MPH; Linda Donnelly; Carolyn M. Gretzinger, MA; E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH

Case Report/Research

Built to Coerce:  Ethics of Imposed Euthanasia (MAID) Provision in a Catholic Hospital Space by Yuriko Ryan, DBE, MA, HEC-C

Medical Education/Organizational Intervention 

FACTS Medical School Elective:  Transforming Medical Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of FABMs by Kristin Strosnider, BA; Elaine Pope, BA; Mary Benedicta Obikili, Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA, MSPH, FAAFP; Talia Caridi; C Mary-Angel Ekezie

Philosophy/Bioethics/Theology (Not Pictured)

An Exodus Framework for Overcoming Dry Drunkenness by Davis Varghese