May 28, 2026
Honored for extraordinary community service
They work at Kaiser Permanente and volunteer far beyond it. Meet the recipients of our 2025 David Lawrence Community Service Award.
The 2025 award recognizes 1 team and 15 employees for their impact in communities locally and around the world.
Our employees and doctors work hard to support our members and help them stay healthy.
Many also use their time and talents outside of work to help people and support causes that matter to them.
Each year, we give the David Lawrence Community Service Award to employees and doctors whose volunteer work makes a real and lasting difference.
David Lawrence, MD, was a former Kaiser Permanente chair and CEO and a longtime advocate for community health. We give individual winners and small groups $10,000 to donate to a nonprofit of their choice. Groups of 4 or more people receive $25,000 to donate.
Meet the winners of the 2025 David Lawrence Community Service Award.
Rosemary Agostini, MD — Sports Medicine Physician
Rosemary Agostini, MD, volunteers with local schools and at high school sports events and community wellness events. She also started Walk and Talk, a program that brings patients and community members together to move and talk with their health care team.
Dennis Andrade, MD — Family Medicine Physician
Dennis Andrade, MD, has led more than 30 medical missions around the world. During these trips, he provides care to people with ongoing health conditions. And he teaches people about health. Back home in San Diego, he organizes health fairs for seasonal farmworkers.
Nina Baker, MD — Family Medicine Physician
Nina Baker, MD, volunteers with community organizations supporting Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities in Hawaii. The organizations protect the environment, improve access to health care, and help people eat healthier food.
Ryan Brown, MD — Surgeon
Ryan Brown, MD, helped start Healing the Children Rocky Mountains, a nonprofit that provides no-cost cleft palette surgeries and other health services to children in Peru. His work has helped thousands of kids by restoring their ability to eat, speak, see, and hear.
Caroline Conduah, RN — Director, Clinical Contact Center
Caroline Conduah helped start the Alliance of Hope Foundation to help people locally and abroad. She also helps people without housing secure food, clothing, and other basic needs. And she raises money to help hospitals in Ghana, West Africa.
Onika Davis, RN — Assistant Nurse Manager
Onika Davis has started multiple organizations that provide training in safe childbirth and newborn care to nurses and midwives. Her work helps reduce newborn deaths in Caribbean countries. In Los Angeles, she helps organize donation drives and health screenings for people in the Skid Row neighborhood.
Naseem Ghazanfari, MD — Cardiologist
Naseem Ghazanfari, MD, volunteers at Safe Harbor Free Clinic in Snohomish County, Washington. The clinic provides care to people without insurance. She also started the Iranian Women’s Institute for Life and Liberty to support immigrant and refugee women.
Barnali Gupta, MD — Family Medicine Physician
Barnali Gupta, MD, helped start the Rocklin Science Academy in Bihar, India, to educate children in English and science. Her work gives students, especially young girls, a clearer path to future careers.
Gale Prentis, MD; Gina Keller, MD; Benjamin Chun, MD; and Jennifer Katada, MD
Special Olympics Volunteer Team, Hawaii
This group of doctors volunteers with Special Olympics Hawaii to provide care for people with disabilities. They provide health screenings at community events across multiple islands. Their work has inspired similar programs in other places Kaiser Permanente provides care.
Naomi Nyarko‑Kusi, RN — Telehealth Nurse
Naomi Nyarko‑Kusi helped start the Alliance of Hope Foundation to help people locally and abroad. She supports orphanages and hospitals in Ghana, West Africa, with food and supplies. In Georgia, she volunteers with groups like Medi‑Share, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, and local schools.
Sami Lababidi, DO — Associate Medical Director
Sami Lababidi, DO, has traveled to several countries with a nonprofit called Mending Faces to assist with surgeries for kids. These surgeries help children born with hand and face deformities. His work provides life-changing care and helps kids stay in school.
Mahvash Mujahid, MD — Family Medicine Physician
Mahvash Mujahid, MD, volunteers with Adams Compassionate Healthcare Network to provide care for patients without health insurance in Virginia. Her work has helped hundreds of patients manage ongoing and complex health issues.
Elijah Pahl — Director of Behavioral Health, Substance Use and Addiction Medicine
Elijah Pahl, a licensed clinical social worker, volunteers with nonprofit groups that help youth in foster care and people with addiction. He helped the organization Quest Center for Integrative Health establish more homes where people with addiction can get help. He serves on the advisory board of Youth Villages, a nonprofit that helps young people as they age out of the foster care system.
Nicole Perelman — Communications Consultant
Nicole Perelman started Inclusive Acres Boulder County to support neurodivergent kids. The nonprofit hosts events where kids can feel comfortable, be themselves, and make friends.
Stacey Peto, RN — Perianesthesia Nurse
Stacey Peto raises money to help veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder or disabilities, or who are homeless. She also helps bring My Cozy Corner spaces to schools so students and teachers have a place to recharge.
Satya “Tya” Ping — Pharmacist
Tya Ping, a doctor of pharmacy, works to make parks and recreational programs more accessible for people in her community. She also helped start the Flip Children’s Museum to bring art and learning to children.
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