Dr. Leonard L. Bailey Outstanding Clinician Award

Dr. Leonard L. Bailey was a world-renowned pediatric heart surgeon whose work has given hope to children everywhere. His research and innovations in infant cardiology have helped save thousands of lives around the world. For 42 years, Dr. Bailey guided patients and their families at Loma Linda University Health through some of their most trying times. In honor of his legacy, we renamed our Outstanding Clinician Award to recognize Dr. Bailey’s lifetime of contributions.

The Dr. Leonard L. Bailey Outstanding Clinician Award recognizes lifelong dedication and distinguished service provided to children by a clinician at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital. Through their professional career and advocacy, award recipients have demonstrated the desire and motivation to improve the lives of children throughout the Inland Empire.

Previous Recipients

Stephen Ashwal, MD

Antranik Bedros, MD

Richard E. Chinnock, MD

Douglas Deming, MD

Ricardo Peverini, MD

Anees Razzouk, MD

Helen Staples-Evans, DNP, RN

2023 RECIPIENT OF THE DR. LEONARD L. BAILEY

Outstanding Clinician Award

Cynthia H. Tinsley, MD

Dr. Tinsley has dedicated three decades to pediatric critical care, and for more than twenty years has served the most critically ill and injured children of the Inland Empire. As the Chair of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, Dr. Tinsley has not only provided outstanding care and compassion to families in their time of greatest need, but she has also advanced the quality of care and support provided to both the patient families and the pediatric residents rotating through Children’s Hospital.

Her selfless dedication to patients, interns, residents and colleagues along with her humor, good nature and positivity have had a profound impact on the Children’s Hospital’s pediatric care family. She teaches interns how to care for the whole patient and the whole family; she is a team member who leads and inspires by example; and her work ethic and intentional acts of kindness are unmatched.

Indeed, Dr. Tinsley’s wit, creativity and systems perspective have made her a pillar of resident education at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. Her leadership coupled with her patience, compassion and grit make a difference in the lives of her interns, patients and patient’s families, and has made her a role model for interns — especially as witnessed through the challenges of a global pandemic.

A highly respected, well-published and much-loved clinician and educator, Dr. Tinsley’s legacy at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital will go on for decades. She is an exceptional candidate for this year’s Dr. Leonard L. Bailey Outstanding Clinician Award.

1942–2019

Dr. Leonard L. Bailey's most enduring legacy lives in the qualities he demonstrated and inspired in others every day. These qualities rekindle our spirits, and in turn, the spirits of those we serve. For these reasons and many others, we cannot thank Dr. Bailey enough.