Charles G. Sasser, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
The 2013 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the senior physician category honor Charles G. Sasser, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, director of palliative care services at Conway Medical Center in Conway, S.C. Under Dr. Sasser’s leadership, Conway established the first interdisciplinary team for palliative care services in South Carolina – a team that included nurses, social workers, pastors, and physicians. A driving force behind Dr. Sasser’s pioneering work to establish an interdisciplinary team approach to palliative care is his belief “that the kind heart of the nurse, the logistical wisdom of the social worker, and the philosophical guidance of the pastor
Drew Rosielle, MD
The 2013 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards in the early-career physician category honor Drew Rosielle, MD, a palliative care physician and program director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. Dr. Rosielle is recognized for his expertise in and commitment to evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care and education. He is the editor of Fast Facts and Concepts, which provides concise, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based summaries on topics in palliative care for clinicians and trainees. He also founded Pallimed, an award-winning and internationally recognized blog on hospice and palliative care. He serves on
Alen Voskanian, MD
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
Jane deLima Thomas, MD
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
Daniel C. Johnson, MD, FAAHMP
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
