Cindy Wool Memorial Seminar with Guest Speaker Dr. BJ Miller

Sponsored by the Maimonides Society of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona in conjunction with the University of Arizona College of Medicine:

The Ninth Annual Cindy Wool Memorial Seminar on Humanism in Healthcare

SPECIAL LECTURE FOR THE ARIZONA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

“What Really Matters at the End of Life”
Thursday, March 29, 2018, Noon-1:15 p.m.
DuVal Auditorium

Free | Box lunches provided by the Medical Humanities Program
Please RSVP by March 22 at http://goo.gl/MJbE4p
Send any questions to csapio@medadmin.arizona.edu

For info on the evening lecture associated with this seminar—“One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die,” CLICK HERE ►►►

See the flyer for this event here:  cwms_bj_miller_afternoon_flyer.pdf

Guest Speaker: Bruce (BJ) Miller, MD
Dr. BJ Miller is a pre-eminent speaker on patient-centered care, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Drawing on his expertise as a physician and former executive director of Zen Hospice Project, and his personal experience as a patient, he advocates for a health care system that maximizes quality of live and that minimizes unnecessary suffering. His TED Talk, “What Really Matters at the End-of-Life,” about encouraging empathic end-of-life care has garnered over 5.5 million views to date and ranks among the most viewed talks. Dr. Miller is also an assistant clinical professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and an attending specialist for the Symptom Management Service of the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of the country’s first outpatient palliative care clinics.

This event is brought to you by the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona | University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson | Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona | Tucson Maimonides Society