BJ Miller
BJ Miller | |
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| Born | Bruce Miller Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | TED Talk "What really matters at the end of life" |
Notable work | End Game |
BJ Miller is an American physician, author and speaker. He is a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician and is best known for his 2015 TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life" BJ has been on the teaching faculty at UCSF School of Medicine[1] since 2007. He sees patients and caregivers through his online palliative care service, Mettle Health.[2] In film, Miller is the subject of Netflix's Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game[3] by veteran directors Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman and executive produced by physician and film producer, Shoshana R. Ungerleider.[4] His book for approaching the end of life, A Beginner’s Guide to the End, was co-authored with Shoshana Berger and published in 2019. Miller has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
Past positions: BJ formerly served as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Zen Hospice Project, now the Zen Caregiving Project
He has a bachelors degree from Princeton, premed coursework from Mills College, MD UCSF, internal medicine residency from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, and a palliative medicine fellowship from Harvard. He took time off before internship due to his sister's suicide and personal problems but was counseled to not give up a medical career.
Personal life[]
Miller is a triple amputee, a result of a mishap that happened in 1990, when he was a student at Princeton.[5]
References[]
- ^ Mooalem, Jon (3 January 2017). "One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
- ^ Pascal, Susan (2018-03-11). "Pioneering Palliative Care Doctor Offers Patients Realistic and Dignified End of Life Care". MariaShriver.com. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Gaitan, Daniel (2018-05-29). "End Game' Is The Documentary Film America Needs". Life Matters Media. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Gaitan, Daniel. "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has highlighted films on death and dying in recent years". Life Matters Media. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ Mooallem, Jon (3 January 2017). "One Man's Quest to Change the Way We die". The New York Times.
External links[]
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