Programs
SMI Tom Hughes Collaboration Award
Tom Hughes was a long-recognized supply chain leader and tireless innovator, pioneer, and creator who was at the forefront of promoting the power of member collaborations to create impactful and lasting positive change in the industry. The SMI Tom Hughes Collaboration Award has been established to recognize efforts that involve SMI Members successfully collaborating to bring innovation, discovery, and improvements to the healthcare supply chain.
The award recognizes members of the SMI community who have successfully collaborated to solve a problem together and achieved measurable results. Awards will be presented annually at the Fall Forum as determined by the Tom Hughes Collaboration Award Committee.
Look for details on the 2026 Tom Hughes Collaboration Award coming soon!
Congratulations to
2025 Tom Hughes collaboration award winners
        
Pictured (left to right):Â Steve Gundersen, SMI Chair Emeritus, Tom Harvieux, SVP & Chief Supply Chain Officer & Jason Luby, VP Value Chain and Sourcing Operations, BJC Healthcare, Cherie Brinkerhoff, Senior Vice President Retail, Technology & Healthcare & Jeff Abeson, Vice President Business Development, Ryder System, Inc., Jane Pleasants, President, SMI
2024 Tom Hughes collaboration award winners
       
Pictured (left to right) Cody Fisher, President, Surgence, Sonya Kimmet, Director, Customer Success, Surgence Lisa Hohman, CEO of Concordance, Jane Pleasants, Executive Director, SMI, Jeremy Strong, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Rush University System for Health, Dustin Slodov, Associate Vice President of Procurement, Rush University System for Health
Congratulations to
2024 Tom Hughes collaboration award winners
  
Pictured (left to right) SMI Board Chair Donna Drummond, SVP, Chief Expense Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer, Northwell Health; Doug Pytlinski, System VP – Supply Chain Operations, AdventHealth; Marisa Farabaugh, SVP & Chief Supply Chain Officer, AdventHealth; Doug Golwas, Chief Commercial Officer, Medline; Peter Saviola, VP of Supply Chain Optimization, Medline; Jane Pleasants, Executive Director, SMI
2023 Tom Hughes collaboration award winners:
Pictured (left to right) Jane Pleasants, Executive Director, SMI; Matt Brandt, CEO, Casechek; Gary Fennessy, Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer, Northwestern Medicine; Mike Hopkins, Vice President of Supply Chain Distribution & Logistics; Betsy Wormet, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Casechek; Alisha Beringer, Director of Supply Chain Distribution and Logistics, Northwestern Medicine; and Steve Gundersen, SMI Past-Chair.
read the press release.
2022 Tom Hughes collaboration award winners:
 
        
Pictured (left to right):Â Dave Roberts, Senior Vice President & President, US Market at Medtronic, Tom Lubotsky, Vice President of Supply Chain at Allina Health and Steve Gundersen, SMI Board Chair.Â
Read the Press Release here.Â
