Tribute Dinner Past Honorees

2025
Cástulo de la Rocha (bio)

Cástulo de la Rocha was honored as President and CEO of AltaMed Health Services Corporation.

2024
Gustavo Valdespino (bio)

Gustavo Valdespino was honored as President and Chief Executive Officer of Valley Presbyterian Hospital (VPH).

2023
Johnese Spisso, RN, MPA (bio)

Johnese Spisso, RN, MPA was honored as President of UCLA Health, CEO of UCLA Hospital System, and Associate Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences.

2022
Arthur M. Southam, MD (bio)

Arthur M. Southam, MD was honored as Executive Vice President Health Plan Operations and Chief Growth Officer of Kaiser Permanente.

2021
Paul Viviano (bio)

Paul Viviano was honored as President and CEO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

2020
Event Canceled Due to Covid-19

2019
Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH

Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH, was honored as the CEO of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital.

2018
Diana S. Dooley

Diana S. Dooley was honored as the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency.

2017
Rod Hochman, MD

Rod Hochman, MD, was honored as president and CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health.

2016
Don Crane

Don Crane was honored as President and CEO of CAPG.

2015
Robert Margolis, MD

Robert Margolis, MD, was honored as Co-Chairman of the Board, DaVita HealthCare Partners and CEO Emeritus of HealthCare Partners, LLC.

2014
Leeba Lessin

In Memoriam
Leeba Lessin was honored for her role as Senior Vice President of WellPoint and President of its affiliated Medicare businesses.

2013
Barry Arbuckle, Ph.D.

Partners honored Barry Arbuckle, Ph.D. as President and CEO of MemorialCare Health System.

2012
David T. Feinberg, MD, MBA

Dr. Feinberg was honored as President of UCLA Health System.

2011
Howard A. Kahn

Howard Kahn was honored as the CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan.

2010
Lloyd A. Bookman, Esq.

Partners honored Lloyd Bookman as Co-founder of Hooper, Lundy and Bookman, P.C.

2010
Robert W. Lundy, Esq.

Partners honored Robert Lundy as co-founder and managing partner of Hooper, Lundy and Bookman, P.C.

2009
Richard A. Norling

Partners honored Richard Norling because of his work as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

2008
George C. Halvorson

Mr. Halvorson was honored as Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente.

2007
Lloyd H. Dean

Lloyd H. Dean was honored for his work as President/CEO of CommonSpirit Health (formerly known as Dignity Health and Catholic Healthcare West).

2006
Francine Kaufman, MD

Partners honored Francine Kaufman, MD, as a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine and the Annenberg School of Communications at USC.

2005
Thomas M. Priselac

Thomas Priselac was honored as President and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Health System.

2004 and 2018
Lifetime Achievement Award C. Duane Dauner

In Memoriam

C. Duane Dauner was honored as President and CEO of the California Hospital Association.

2003
Robert E. Tranquada, MD

In Memoriam

Dr. Tranquada was honored for his leadership that initiated and shaped many health care organizations.

2002
James E. Ludlam, J.D.

In Memoriam

Mr. Ludlam was recognized as one of the founders of healthcare law who helped shape California’s healthcare environment.

2001
Yoshi Honkawa

Mr. Honkawa served for many years as Vice President, Government and Industry Relations, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

2000
Dr. Allen & Weta Mathies

The Mathies Award was named in honor of this couple’s distinguished careers and Dr. Mathies’ remarkable leadership of the Visiting Nurse Association of Los Angeles (VNA-LA) and the founding Board of Partners in Care Foundation.

2024
Martha Santana-Chin (bio)

Martha Santana-Chin was honored as Medi-Cal and Medicare President of Health Net.

2022
Sachin H. Jain, MD (bio)

Sachin H. Jain, MD was honored as President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan.

2014
James R. West

James R. West was honored as the President and Chief Executive Officer of PIH Health.

2011
Molina Family & Molina Family Healthcare, Inc.

Molina Healthcare began in 1980 as an small medical clinic in Long Beach, California.

2010
Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong was honored as a physician, surgeon, and scientist.

2006
Kathleen Brown

Kathleen Brown was honored as the former Treasurer of the State of California and Board member of the Los Angeles Unified School District.