Illinois Nurse Leader Award
The purpose of the Illinois Nurse Leader Award is to recognize an outstanding nurse leader who is highly influential in shaping quality health care in the State of Illinois. The award honors the hard work, commitment and dedication necessary to serve the health care needs of the people of Illinois through supremely skilled leadership and the courage to break through barriers. The award symbolizes the celebration of individual achievement and represents excellence in nursing leadership of our state.

2008 Illinois Nurse Leader Award Nomination Form (pdf)

Congratulations to the 2007 Outstanding Illinois Nurse Leader Award Winner: Dr. Marjorie Beyers!

Pinnacle Nurse Leader Spotlight
We invite institutions, groups or individuals to spotlight extraordinary nurse leaders for acknowledgement and celebration at the 10th Annual PNLE.

For the table Pinnacle Nurse Leader spotlighting organizations:

1. Purchase table(s) for the luncheon at $1,500, one per Pinnacle Nurse Leader. Each table will seat one leader and nine supporters.

2. Invite nine table colleagues/supporters to attend the PNLE to cheer for your chosen Pinnacle Nurse Leader as her/his words of wisdom are profiled for the PNLE audience of nursing and health care leaders.

3. Provide your organization, group or personal name/logo to be highlighted next to a photo of your spotlighted leader(s) on the big screen.

4. Support and cheer for your chosen pinnacle leader.

Please feel free to honor as many Pinnacle Nurse Leaders as you wish. Please note there is only one Pinnacle Nurse Leader per table purchase. As always, individual tickets will be available for $150 and regular tables ($1500 for 10) can be purchased without a pinnacle leader attendee.

For the spotlighted Pinnacle Nurse Leaders:

1. Provide a biographical sketch (Name, Title, Organization, the number years as a nurse), photograph (in JPG format) and a 2-line ‘sound bite’ statement on what make you or has contributed to you being an extraordinary leader; or what you think makes for excellent leadership or advice you might have for emerging leaders. These words of wisdom will be flashed on the screen with your portrait when you are ‘in the spotlight . Please provide this information to lesinski@uic.edu or kuehnert@uic.edu.

2. Receive a leadership recognition memento.

3. Bask in the glory of acknowledgement by your peers from across the state.

As always, we will be soliciting nominations for the Illinois Nurse Leader Award but we hope you take this opportunity to celebrate all the nurse leaders of your choice. To purchase Pinnacle table, a regular table or individual tickets, please go to our registration page.


The 2007 marked the first year of the Pinnacle Leader Spotlight. We invited institutions, groups or individuals to spotlight extraordinary nurse leaders for acknowledgement and celebration at the 10th Annual PNLE.

Congratulations to all twenty 2007 Pinnacle Nurse Leaders!

Host Committee
As always, we thank our 2008 PNLE Host Committee!