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Robert A. Milch, MD, FACS (deceased) Robert A. Milch, MD, FACS, of The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, near Buffalo, received the inaugural Cunniff-Dixon Hastings Center established physician award of $50,000. He has been involved with hospice and palliative care for more than 30 years, most of it at Hospice Buffalo, where he initially served as a volunteer medical director. Dr. Milch, a surgeon, was recognized for his longstanding commitment to and excellence in clinical care for patients with advanced illness and for his regional and national leadership in palliative care and surgery.

Elisabeth Potts Dellon, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina, was one of three nominees awarded the Cunniff-Dixon Hastings Center early-career physician award of $15,000. Dr. Dellon was chosen for her unique set of clinical skills in caring for children and young adults with advanced chronic lung disease.

Jeffrey N. Stoneberg, DO of San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine was one of three nominees awarded the Cunniff-Dixon Hastings Center early-career physician award of $15,000. Dr. Stoneberg was awarded this prize for his outstanding clinical skills and achievements in growing the Scripps Mercy Palliative Medicine Consultation Service.

Eytan Szmuilowicz, MD, of Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago was one of three nominees awarded the Cunniff-Dixon Hastings Center early-career physician award of $15,000. Dr. Szmuilowicz was chosen for his devotion to and excellence in patient care, as well as his strong commitment to teaching and research on improving clinician training in end-of-life care.

The 2011 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the senior physician category honor Ann Allegre, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, director of medical programs at Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care in Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Allegre is a pioneer in the fields of hospice care and palliative medicine. She began her career in general medicine and soon became interested in palliative medicine as a result of a personal experience with life-threatening illness. She joined Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care in 1995 and became its first director of medical programs. In 1999, she became the founding medical director of the Palliative

The 2011 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early-career physician category honor Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, medical director of the Department of Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, for innovative symptom management of pediatric patients, compassion, and family-centered care. Dr. Friedrichsdorf is also the principal investigator of a five-year, multisite study on the creation, implementation and evaluation of a pediatric palliative care curriculum, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. He lectures extensively nationally and internationally on pediatric pain medicine, palliative care and integrative medicine and

The 2011 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the midcareer physician category honor Anthony Nicholas Galanos, MA, MD, medical director of the Duke University Hospital Palliative Care Service in Durham, N.C. Dr. Galanos is also an associate professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, at the Duke University Medical Center; a senior research fellow in Duke’s Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development; and an associate faculty scholar in the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. For more than a decade, Dr. Galanos worked tirelessly to establish the palliative care service

The 2011 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early-career physician category honor Savithri Nageswaran, MBBS, MPH, director of the pediatric palliative care program at Brenner Children’s Hospital at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. In 2008, Dr. Nageswaran developed the first pediatric palliative care program at Brenner Children’s Hospital. More than 200 children have received care from the program. She also conducts research on improving the health care of children with complex chronic conditions and works with multiple community agencies to improve communication between hospital-based and community-based providers. In addition, she teaches pediatric palliative care to