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The 2013 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early-career physician category honor Alen Voskanian, MD, regional medical director of VITAS Innovative Hospice Care in Torrance, Calif. Dr. Voskanian has expanded and developed innovative models of ambulatory palliative care and raised awareness of the benefits of palliative and end-of-life care through work with government agencies and professional organizations. In 2010, he was selected to participate in a California HealthCare Foundation Health Care Leadership Program, a fellowship that prepares health care professionals to assume significant roles in improving the state’s health care system. His project focused on initiating earlier palliative care

The 2013 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early-career physician category honor Jane deLima Thomas, MD, a palliative care physician and associate director of the Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dr. Thomas is a leader among palliative care physicians and educators at Harvard Medical School. In her role with the fellowship program, she has had a major impact on the development of the field through training and modeling excellence in palliative practice. She instills in fellows the importance of empathy, compassion, competence, connectedness, and presence in palliative and end-of-life care. Dr. Thomas

The 2013 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the mid-career category honor Daniel C. Johnson, MD, FAAHMP, national physician lead for palliative care at Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute, as well as director of Palliative Care Innovations and Development at Kaiser Permanente-Colorado and director of the Life Quality Institute in Denver. He is also a physician on the Palliative Care Consult Services at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital in Denver and Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Co. Dr. Johnson led the expansion of services at Kaiser Permanente-Colorado, partnering with local organizations to more than quadruple patient and family access

The 2014 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the senior physician category honor Catherine D. Deamant, MD, system director of Supportive and Palliative Care Services for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System in Chicago and program director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County. She is commended for creating a nationally recognized palliative care service that delivers state-of-the-art care in a county-funded safety net hospital, serving patient populations that lack access to such care, including immigrants and detainees. Dr. Deamant began her career as an attending physician in general medicine

The 2014 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the mid-career category honor Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Department of Medical Ethics and director of research for the Pediatric Advanced Care Team at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is recognized for his leadership in promoting better, more patient-driven care for children at the end of their lives, as well as to their families, at both Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the nation as a whole. In nominating Dr. Feudtner, Ezekiel Emanuel, MSc, MD, PhD, Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, Department of Medical Ethics

The 2014 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early-career category honor Elise C. Carey, MD, FAAHPM, chair of the Section of Palliative Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. She was the founding program director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Mayo Clinic Rochester, and she continues to direct the palliative medicine rotation for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. She has gained recognition for being an emerging national leader in palliative care education. Dr. Carey joined Mayo Clinic in 2007 to advance Mayo Clinic’s palliative care program. Under her leadership the

The 2014 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early career category honor Nadia Tremonti, MD, medical director for palliative care at Children’s Hospital of Michigan and medical director for Kaleidoscope Kids Hospice at Henry Ford Health System. She is also an attending pediatrician with University Pediatricians and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She is praised for leadership in palliative care, exceptional empathy and communications skills with patients and their families, and excellence in mentoring colleagues about alleviating the dying process. With limited financial and staffing resources, Dr. Tremonti

The 2014 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early career category honor Jeanette S. Ross, MD, AGSF, FAAHPM, staff physician in geriatrics and palliative care at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio and director of educational initiatives for the geriatric and palliative medicine fellowships at the University of Texas Health Science Center. She is commended for advancing palliative care for veterans, as well as for using communications technology to enhance education and clinical practice in care near the end of life. Dr. Ross cares for hospitalized veterans in the hospice and palliative care consultation service