The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Awards
The Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Awards recognize exceptional physicians and nurses nationwide providing exemplary end-of-life care. The awards foster skills and virtues by providing financial prizes to those physicians and nurses, at all phases of their career, who have shown their care of patients to be outstanding, a model of good medicine for other caregivers, and a great benefit in advancing the centrality of end-of-life care as a basic part of the caregiver-patient relationship.
Our 2025 Nursing Award nominations open October 1, 2024.
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Planning My Way
Planning My Way (PMW) is a project of the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation and received broad review from a diverse panel of end-of-life and ethics experts including clinicians, clergy and consumer advocates. Our partnerships helped bring that work forward to a consumer-oriented print and digital workbook experience that helps individuals and families think about, learn and communicate what matters to them as they contemplate both legal and supporting future health care directives.
Foundation VIDEOS
Watch these award winning nurses and doctors speak about their unique work in Palliative Care
Palliative Care. RURAL | Dr. Dillon Stein, DO
Honoring an exceptional palliative care physician serving rural communities, Dr. Dillon J. Stein goes above and beyond for his palliative care patients.
Palliative Care UNDERSERVED | Dr. Shellie Williams, MD
Meet Dr. Shellie Williams who shares the extraordinary ways a palliative care physician can make end-of-life a more poignant and loving experience.
Palliative Care. HUMBLY | Juanita Georges, LVN
“Shine bright like a diamond,” is how Juanita Georges, LVN, CDF Nursing Award winner, wants all her patients to feel during their end-of-life care.
Palliative Care. UNDERSERVED | Rodney O Tucker, MD, MMM, FAAHPM
Our Cunniff-Dixon Senior Physician Award speaks about listening in a poignant story involving the end-of-life care of a patient.