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.
The 2025 Nursing Nominations have now closed.
The 2026 Physician Award nominations will open on October 1, 2025. Please consider creating a nomination this Fall for an outstanding physician in palliative care.
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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
Robert Macauley, MD | COMPASSIONATE WAYSHOWER
Thrilled to showcase our Influencer Interview with Robert Macauley, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.A.H.P.M.
Lynn Flint, MD | Serving Veterans
Dr. Lynn Flint, Medical Director of Outpatient Palliative Care at the San Francisco VA Health Care System, is dedicated to supporting veterans facing serious illnesses and aims to reach new and diverse populations.
Fran McCarthy, Coordinator | Clinical Neonatal Comfort Care Program | Living until Death
Fran McCarthy has developed a motto that has guided her in her remarkable career in palliative care: “It’s not about dying,” she says, “It’s about living until you die.”
Hunter Groninger, MD | Heartfelt Conversation
Meet Dr. Hunter Groninger! He shares all the extraordinary ways word choice makes an impact in palliative care and how a physician can make end-of-life a more poignant and loving experience through authentic and heartfelt conversation.