Meet the Honorees:
The Cambia Health Foundation is proud to introduce the 2011 Sojourns Award honorees.
- Anthony Back, M.D. Seattle, Washington
- Hospice of North Idaho, Hayden, Idaho
- Sacred Art of Living Center, Bend, Oregon
- Dr. Sarah Goodlin, M.D. Salt Lake City, Utah
We created the Sojourns Award to recognize leaders in the field of palliative and end-of-life care, to share their innovations with the broader community and to invest in their future work. Honorees are organizations and individuals whose contributions and passion for change are transforming people’s lives, every day.
The Sojourns Award includes a $50,000 grant from The Cambia Health Foundation to support continued leadership and advancements in palliative care.
Anthony Back, M.D.
Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Dr. Back is responsible for bringing palliative care programs to institutions throughout the Puget Sound area, including Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and the Veterans Administration hospital. Through his innovative Onco-Talk program, he has taught hundreds of doctors, medical students and clinicians how to have compassionate conversation about end-of-life care with patients and their families.
He is also the author of numerous papers, articles and books about improving the doctor-patient conversation around palliative care for cancer patients and others with life-limiting illnesses.
Hospice of North Idaho
Hayden, Idaho
Hospice of North Idaho was founded in 1981 by group of community volunteers who recognized a great need for end-of-life care in Idaho. Today it has grown to serve more than 800 patients annually through home hospice care, inpatient hospice care and outpatient palliative care services, which can be provided in tandem with curative care. The organization also offers palliative and end-of-life care education and training to area health care providers.
Sacred Art of Living Center
Bend, Oregon
Established in 1997 by Richard and Mary Groves, the Center is the nation's first comprehensive training and certification program for spirituality in end-of-life care. Its programs focus on “healing the healers” by helping them work through their own conflicts about end of life, as well as fostering the transformational aspect of suffering by both patients and their caregivers to find deeper meaning in the experience. It has trained more than 15,000 professional and lay caregivers, from Oregon and around the world, in a holistic model that fully integrates the needs of body, mind and spirit.
Sarah Goodlin, M.D.
Patient Cantered Education & Research Foundation
Salt Lake City, Utah
As president of Patient-Centered Education Research, Dr. Goodlin led a national initiative funded by the Agency for Health Research and Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to improve palliative care for patients with heart failure. She also helped develop new end-of-life guidelines for the Heart Failure Society of America. Additionally, she was instrumental in integrating palliative care into heart failure care at several Utah hospitals. For her contributions to research and education over past 20 years, Dr. Goodlin has been recognized by the American Heart Association, and elected as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
