Applications are now open! Submit your application by August 19.
ASPEN members often collaborate with patients, families, and caregivers who perform admirable activities and heroically advocate for others like themselves and their families. To recognize those individuals who do so much for nutrition support, this annual recognition is awarded to a patient, family member, or caregiver. This award is named in honor of ASPEN member and Oley Foundation co-founder, Lyn Howard, MB, FRCP.
- Award nominees must be a patient (EN or PN consumer), or a family member or caregiver of such a patient.
- Award nominees must have demonstrated admirable activities which advocate for themselves or others receiving EN or PN.
- Award winner or their representative should be able to attend the conference for the upcoming year in order to receive the award.
- Award nominees should be (although not absolutely) able to briefly articulate their story at the conference at the award ceremony.
2026 Lyn Howard Nutrition Support Advocacy Award Winner
Molly Yeselson is a patient advocate from Washington, DC, living with intestinal failure due to mitochondrial disease. She is particularly passionate about improving the transition between pediatric and adult healthcare systems for HPEN-dependent patients. Since 2020, Molly has served as the Patient Representative on GEDSA’s ENFit Clinical Advisory Board and volunteers in several roles at Children’s National Hospital. She is also an advocate for accessibility and disability inclusion and will begin her M.S. in Health and the Public Interest at Georgetown University in 2026.
| Molly Yeselson | 2026 |
| Jayme Scali | 2025 |
| Michael S. Medwar | 2024 |
| Alaina McCormick | 2023 |
| Bettemarie Bond | 2022 |
| Joy McVey Hugick | 2021 |
| Joan Bishop | 2020 |
| Swapna Kakani | 2019 |
| Glenda Rodgers | 2018 |
| Brandis Goodman | 2017 |
| Linda Gravenstein | 2016 |
| Beth Gore | 2015 |
| Ann Weaver | 2014 |
| Tracy Nagi | 2013 |
| Rick Davis | 2012 |
| Don Young | 2011 |
| Lee Koonin | 2010 |