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Wilson Receives Nap Gary Award for Lifetime Achievement
MAY 2, 2025
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Kathy Wilson receives the Nap Gary Award from David Shapiro, MD, at the ASCA 2025 Conference & Expo in Denver, Colorado, May 2, 2025.
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ASCA awarded its 2025 Nap Gary Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the ASC Community to Kathy Wilson, RN, former executive director of the ASC Quality Collaboration (ASCQC). David Shapiro, MD, former president and current member of the ASCA Board of Directors and anesthesiologist at Red Hills Surgical Center, presented the award to Wilson at the ASCA 2025 Conference & Expo in Denver, Colorado, April 30–May 3.
“I am so honored to be the recipient of the Nap Gary Award,” Wilson says. “My thanks to ASCA for this recognition. I share this with all of the other quality and safety professionals who are dedicated to advancing the care of patients in ASCs to even higher levels.”
In introducing Wilson, Shapiro said, “The namesake of the award, my friend the late Nap Gary, was a past president of ASCA whose personal and professional life was characterized by integrity, dedication, mentorship, leadership, loyalty and the highest ethical standards. Kathy Wilson embodies all those qualities—and her contributions to the ASC community can be measured in decades rather than years. Kathy’s remarkable career in the ASC community, and her unrivaled contributions to the advancement of quality and safety in outpatient surgery, made her the ASCA Board of Directors’ unanimous choice to receive this year’s award.”
Past Winners
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The late Nap Gary, former ASCA Board member and former president and chief operating officer, Regent Surgical Health |
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| 2017 |
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Alsie Fitzgerald, retired surveyor, Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care |
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| 2018 |
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Joel Gordon, cofounder of Surgical Care Affiliates, and Milla Perry Jones, retired vice president of government relations, United Surgical Partners International |
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| 2019 |
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Donna Slosburg, retired executive director, ASC Quality Collaboration |
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| 2020 |
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Bill Wilcox, retired vice chairman, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, and the late Randy Leffler, past executive director, Ohio Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers |
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| 2021 |
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The late Ann Shimek, RN, CASC, former ASCA Board member, former executive director, ASC Quality Collaboration, and former senior vice president and chief clinical officer, Surgery Partners |
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| 2022 |
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Peter Daly, MD, chief medical officer and cofounder of One World Surgery, and Thomas M. Deas Jr., MD, retired vice president of physician engagement at North Texas Specialty Physicians |
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| 2023 |
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Kathy Bryant, former chief executive officer of ASCA |
Wilson led ASCQC from 2021–2025. She played a pivotal role in shaping ASCQC’s impact and left behind a strong legacy. She oversaw all operations, functions and activities of the organization that promotes safety and quality care delivery in ASCs; worked with federal agencies on measure development projects; and educated ASC stakeholders regarding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ASC Quality Reporting Program.
Before ASCQC, Wilson worked as the vice president of quality at Amsurg from 2010–2019 and was instrumental in developing a quality and risk management program to support more than 260 surgery centers. She also established a data repository for quality, risk, accreditation and regulatory survey reports, and created a system for reporting quality indicators to CMS.
Prior to Amsurg, Wilson worked for HCA Healthcare from 1999–2010 in different roles, ending her career with the company as assistant vice president of clinical services.
Criteria and Nomination Process
Current or former ASCA members as well as state ASC associations can nominate an individual for the Nap Gary Award. The nominee must be an ASCA member who actively worked in the ASC industry for at least 15 years or supported ASCA’s mission in a significant way for at least 10 years preceding their nomination. Self-nominations are accepted.
Submit a completed nomination form available from ASCA, the nominee’s curriculum vitae and up to three letters of support by email to ASCA’s designated contact person Dee Bellfield-Ross. All entries must be submitted for consideration by the ASCA Governance Committee no later than October 1 of the year preceding the year the award will be presented.