It is our great pleasure to present the



2025 Myeloma Canada

Marion State Memorial Nursing Award

to

Angie Bauder and Julie Williams

Nurse Navigators for the Stem Cell Transplant (SCT) program

at Kingston Health Sciences Centre, ON.

A bit about Angie and Julie

Angie’s and Julie’s contributions to the Kingston area myeloma community are truly exceptional. Patients who have undergone stem cell transplant (SCT) at Kingston consistently speak highly of them, remarking on their incredible knowledge and the personal attention and support they provide to patients and their families before, during, and after the transplant process.

As part of this deep commitment, Angie and Julie create personalized information binders for every patient undergoing a SCT that include invaluable Myeloma Canada resources.

Angie’s and Julie’s passion and devotion extend well beyond their unit – to the broader myeloma community and to Myeloma Canada. They played a key role in helping to coordinate an educational session with Chantel Wicks, Myeloma Canada’s Regional Manager of Community Engagement and Development, for their unit’s staff. This session was so successful that it led to additional myeloma information sessions in other units of the hospital.

Angie and Julie’s dedication, expertise, and proactive nature – such as suggesting new resources for Myeloma Canada to develop for patients and their families navigating the SCT process – have made a significant impact on the lives of patients and their families, and the care they receive at Kingston Health Sciences Centre.

We’re not the only ones who’ve noticed and appreciates all that Angie and Julie do for our myeloma community:

“ From the first time we met Angie and Julie on KIDD 9, Rene and I knew that I would be in good hands. Both of these special nurses projected an air of confidence and professionalism; they knew their trade.

I was their umpteenth patient, maybe the umpteenth for that month, maybe even that week, in for a stem cell transplant. Yet, they cared. Somehow, they knew the stress and uncertainty I was feeling after my myeloma diagnosis just months earlier. How I was feeling mattered to them.

They were more than great nurses. Their sincere smiles told me they were truly caring professionals that go beyond their calling for each and every umpteenth patient. It made all the difference for me.”

– Brian Snowdon

'Umpteenth patient' from October 2021

Support Group Leader

Peterborough – Kawartha Lakes Myeloma Support Group

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“ Angie and Julie, two exceptional, professional, caring, nurses that continue to help newly diagnosed and active multiple myeloma (MM) patients navigate this new scary, unsure cancer world that patients find themselves in. Somehow, they find a way to calm the fear that we all feel at many moments on our MM journey.

Both Angie and Julie continue to support our Kingston support group, whether its attending support group meetings, just having an open Q/A session to answer any question patients may have, sharing knowledge, or showing their support to MM patients by participating in our annual MM March (along with other members of the medical team at Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). They both continue to show the "true angels" that they both are to the myeloma patients at KHSC.

Congratulations to a pair of outstanding individuals that continue to show us all

that compassion and caring in nursing is alive and well at KHSC!

THANK YOU both ...you have made such a difference in so many of our lives.” 

– Claudia Trost & Jeff Heyman

Support Group Leaders

Kingston Myeloma Support Group

Angie and Julie, you have inspired and touched so many. It is an honour to have you within our community and our network. Congratulations, and thank you once again for all you do to make myeloma matter!

The team at Myeloma Canada