Andre M. Cipta, MD

Early-Career Physician Awards: Andre M. Cipta, MD, FAAHPM, Assistant Professor of Clinical Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. Dr. Cipta is the program director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship and site director of the innovative …

Richard Leiter, MD

Richard Leiter, MD, MA, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Leiter is a palliative care physician, writer, and researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as the director of the Inpatient Palliative …

Tyler Tate, MD

Tyler Tate, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Dr. Tate is a pediatric palliative physician, ethicist, writer, and researcher at OHSU. He serves as an associate director of the OHSU Center for Ethics in Health …

Lynn Flint, MD

Mid-Career Physician Award: Lynn Flint, MD, Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Flint is the medical director of outpatient palliative care at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the founding director of …

Julie Hauer, MD

Senior Career Physician Winner: Julie Hauer, MD, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School. Dr Hauer has been committed for 28 years to the rare population of children with disorders of the central nervous system …

Hunter Groninger, MD

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. For the last 20 years, …

Frances T. McCarthy

Frances T. McCarthy, MS, RNC-NIC, CPLC. McCarthy is a clinical coordinator of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Columbia University. The primary focus of the program is to provide support to women …

Christina Holt

Christina Holt, MSN, APRN (BC), ACHPN, OCN. Holt is lead nurse practitioner for the palliative care team at Yale School of Medicine. She began her career as a staff nurse for inpatient gynecology-oncology at Yale-New Haven Health, where she often …

Patrick J. Coyne

Patrick J. Coyne, MSN, ACNS-BC, ACHPN, FAAN, FPCN. Coyne is an assistant professor of palliative care at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and, for nearly eight years until his retirement last month, was the director of this …

Shellie Williams, MD

Shellie Williams, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, where she practices both geriatric and palliative medicine. William’s clinical focus is primarily with aging dementia patients in underserved communities on Chicago’s South Side. Williams is …