BJ Miller

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]

BJ Miller
Born
Bruce Miller

Chicago, Illinois, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPhysician
Known forTED Talk "What really matters at the end of life"
Notable work
End Game

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 Medical School. 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 train surfing and getting electrocuted in 1990 when he was a student at Princeton.[5]

References
  1. Mooalem, Jon (3 January 2017). "One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  2. Pascal, Susan (2018-03-11). "Pioneering Palliative Care Doctor Offers Patients Realistic and Dignified End of Life Care". MariaShriver.com. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  3. Gaitan, Daniel (2018-05-29). "End Game' Is The Documentary Film America Needs". Life Matters Media. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  4. 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.
  5. Mooallem, Jon (3 January 2017). "One Man's Quest to Change the Way We die". The New York Times.
  • Quotations related to BJ Miller at Wikiquote


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