2024 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards announced

2024 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards announced
The Hastings Center email; 5/9/24
The Hastings Center and The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation are pleased to announce six recipients of awards that honor physicians for providing exemplary care to patients nearing the end of life. The awards are based on technical competence, personal integrity, empathic dialogue with patients, active engagement with the family and loved ones, practical and heartfelt communication regarding advance directives, and compassionate alleviation of suffering. Congratulations:

• Dr. Richard Payne Leadership Award: Hunter Groninger, MD, FAAHPM, Director of the Section of Palliative Care, MedStar Washington Hospital Center; Scientific Director for Palliative Care, MedStar Health Research Institute; and Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University.
• Senior Physician Award: Julie Hauer, MD, FAAHPM, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School.
• Mid-Career Physician Award: Lynn Flint, MD, Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco.
• Early-Career Physician Awards: Andre M. Cipta, MD, FAAHPM, Assistant Professor of Clinical Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.
• Early-Career Physician Awards: Richard Leiter, MD, MA, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
• Early-Career Physician Awards: Tyler Tate, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).