MS Awards Dinner

2025 MS Awards Dinner

The Holy Name Foundation invites you to join us at our 2025 MS Awards Dinner, co-chaired by Lawrence R. Inserra, Jr., and Joseph M. Sanzari, and featuring our awards ceremony, dinner and dancing. During this impactful evening, we will continue the celebration of Holy Name's 100th Anniversary of Holy Name and mark the 40th Anniversary of The Alfiero & Lucia Palestroni Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Center.

Where/When

The Venetian
546 River Drive, Garfield, NJ
Thursday, November 6   |   6 - 10 pm

We are proud to announce this year's honorees -- two esteemed members of the MS community who each support our patients in their own unique way:

The Joan Perkowski Cashin Foundation
Recipient of The Lawrence R. Inserra Leadership Award

The Joan Perkowski Cashin Foundation advances the legacy of the late Joan Perkowski Cashin, RN, an MS Center grateful patient, by advancing the care of MS patients and families through their longtime support of the Alfiero & Lucia Palestroni Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Center, as well as nursing students of the Sister Claire Tynan School of Nursing who pursue the specialties areas in which Joan practiced.

Asya Wallach, MD
Recipient of The Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Wallach is a neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis at Holy Name's Alfiero & Lucia Palestroni Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Center and is known as much for her deeply empathetic approach to patient care as for her clinical and research acumen.

The Impact of Your Participation

The Alfiero & Lucia Palestroni Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Center at Holy Name was the first comprehensive facility of its kind in our region and continues to be the preeminent resource for expert MS healthcare. Because of interested and caring individuals and organizations, our MS Center continues to flourish, as do those patients who have discovered Holy Name's very special brand of care. Our vision of a one-stop MS resource has been realized with leading-edge diagnosis and personalized treatment services, including the region's only MS-dedicated infusion center; innovative therapies in the pipeline, thanks to clinical trials in which Holy Name participates; and a robust program of psychosocial and other supportive care offerings.

Your participation and/or sponsorship helps the MS Center to continue delivering these outstanding programs and services to our patient population of more than 2,000 individuals. By improving patients' quality of life, they can work their jobs, enjoy their families and pursue their dreams -- bringing them closer to a future without MS.

Please join us for a fun and meaningful evening.