The Council on Palliative Care, in its series Lessons in Living from the Dying, presents Dr. B. J. Miller.

"The Civics of Dying Well"
Charles Martin Amphitheatre, 6th Floor
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, McGill University

Dr. B.J. Miller is a hospice and palliative care specialist in San Francisco, California. He brings unique experience to his role as Executive Director of Zen Hospice Project (ZHP). An electrical shock sustained while a Princeton undergraduate nearly cost him his life. He managed to survive but lost both legs below the knee and half of one arm. Through this lens, BJ has developed an extraordinary sense of presence and understanding that he shares freely with patients, community and the Zen Hospice Project. As executive director of this non-profit organization since 2011, BJ oversees its pioneering integration of social and medical services grounded in spirituality and humanity.

Working from the vantage point of death as an essential part of life, he is also actively engaged in cultivating a larger dialogue about this universal experience - as much through ZHP's own human-centered model of care as through exploratory work with the international design firm IDEO, participation in various healthcare policy initiatives, including San Francisco's Palliative Care Task Force, and through public speaking including the closing talk at TED2015, all helping to make empathy-driven end-of-life care available to all.

BJ Miller - TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life?language=en

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Le Conseil des soins palliatifs présente une conférence gratuite dans le cadre de sa série "Leçons de vie données par les mourants" par Dr. B. J. Miller.

"Le civisme d'une fin de vie réussie"
Amphithéâtre Charles Martin, 6e étage Campus de l'Université McGill Pavillon McIntyre des sciences médicales

La conférence sera donnée en anglais.

Cette conférence sera diffusée en direct et archivée sur notre site Web à : http://www.mcgill.ca/council-on-palliative-care

This lecture is sponsored by the Goldberg Family, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Palliative Care, West Island Palliative Care Residence
and The Council on Palliative Care.

Cette conférence est parrainée par la famille Goldberg,
le Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM) soins palliatifs, la Résidence de soins palliatifs de l'Ouest de l'Île
et le Conseil des soins palliatifs.