The Roger C. Bone Advances in End-of-Life Care Award was created in 2000 to annually recognize a member of the American College of Chest Physicians who has demonstrated leadership in end-of-life care. As a physician coming to grips with his own terminal diagnosis, Dr. Bone wrote about the ethical and humanistic issues surrounding end-of-life decisions. He stressed the importance of communication among physicians and their patients. Dr. Bone was a Master Fellow and Past President of the ACCP.
Through a review committee of members from the ACCP Palliative and End-of-Life Care NetWork and other distinguished leaders in end-of-life care, recipients for this award are judged to have shown substantial improvement in the care of patients at the end of life as documented in a summary illustrating communication skills, cooperative spirit, support of palliative and hospice care, and use of pain management. The award recipient will receive a grant of $5,000 for his or her specific end-of-life care project.
Daniel E. Ray, MD, FCCP,
Director of the Medical
Critical Care Unit and Co-Director of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania. The title of his
project is "Implementing Palliative Care in the ICU and Across the Continuum." Dr. Ray is the co-principal investigator of the
Palliative Care in the ICU Project at Lehigh Valley Hospital and has been involved in all aspects of the project, including conceptualization, implementation, evaluation, and reporting. He has provided leadership within the organization as Chairman of the Palliative Care Advisory Group and Symposium Planning Committee. Throughout this project, he has emphasized the primacy of improved communication between all those involved, which includes the
caretakers, the patient, and the family.
The Roger C. Bone Advances in End-of-Life Care Review Committee was co-chaired by Rosemary H. Bone Mason, RN, and D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP, and included ACCP members and distinguished doctors in end-of-life care: Ira R. Byock, MD; Richard A. Dart, MD, FCCP; Michael E. Preodor, MD; Paul A. Selecky, MD, FCCP; Stephen C. Telatnik, MD, FCCP; and Basil Varkey, MD, FCCP.