BJ Miller, MD: His Path to the Human Centered Approach and the Doula Role in Healthcare
Recorded: January 2021
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Webinar Speaker:
BJ Miller, MD – Hospice & Palliative Care Specialist and Author of A Beginner’s Guide to the End
Webinar Moderator:
Henry Fersko-Weiss – INELDA Executive Director
Dr. BJ Miller will join host Henry Fersko Weiss for INELDA’s first 2021 members only webinar. Dr. Miller’s transitioning practice embracing a more non-medical emphasis, his perceptions about the end-of-life field and the role of end-of-life doulas will all be topics for discussion along with audience Q&A.
Dr. BJ Miller is a longtime hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator. He currently sees patients and families via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability.
BJ has been on the faculty at his alma mater, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), since 2007 and has worked in all settings of care: hospital, clinic, residential facility, and home. Led by his own experiences as a patient, BJ advocates for the roles of our senses, community and presence in designing a better ending. His interests are in working across disciplines to affect broad-based culture change, cultivating a civic model for aging and dying and furthering the message that suffering, illness, and dying are fundamental and intrinsic aspects of life. His career has been dedicated to moving healthcare towards a human centered approach, on a policy as well as a personal level.
BJ has given over 100 talks nationally, and internationally, on the topics of death, dying, palliative care and the intersection of healthcare with design.
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