2024

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, 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, 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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …