The awards were made in three categories: Senior Physician award, Mid-Career Physician award and Early-Career Physician award. The senior award and mid-career awards carried a prize of $25,000 each, and the three early-career awards of $15,000 apiece. The areas of consideration were: medical practice, teaching, research, and community.
Senior Physician Award:
- Charles G. Sasser, director of palliative care services at Conway Medical Center in Conway, South Carolina. He established the first interdisciplinary team for palliative care services in South Carolina, a team that included nurses, social workers, pastors, and physicians.
Mid-Career Physician Award:
- Daniel C. Johnson, 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.
Early-Career Physician Awards:
- Drew Rosielle, a palliative care physician and program director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Minnesota Medical Centre in Minneapolis.
- Jane de Lima Thomas, a palliative care physician and associate director of the Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship Programme at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston
- Alen Voskanian, regional medical director, VITAS Innovative Hospice Care, Torrance, California.
Commenting on the awards, Mildred Z. Solomon, president of The Hastings Centre, said: “The outstanding work of these physicians illustrates what we aim to promote in the care of all patients with advanced illness throughout the nation. The compassion and skill of these doctors are making a profound difference to patients and families, and we are enormously proud to honour them.”
Read more about the awards on the MediCaring.org blog, as well as the Hastings Center website.
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