BJ Miller, MD

CEO
Mettle Health

BJ Miller, MD, is CEO of Mettle Health, a company he co-founded to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the many practical, emotional, and communication issues that come with serious or chronic illness, end of life, and disability. He is the Dream Foundation Honorary Medical Chair, the only national dream-granting organization for terminally ill adults. He was Executive Director of Zen Hospice Project from 2011-2016, where he helped develop and share a pioneering model of human-centered end-of-life care. After several years in both the art and disability-rights nonprofit communities, he enrolled at UCSF and completed his MD as a Regents' Scholar in 2001. He completed his internal medicine residency at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, where he served as chief resident. He completed his fellowship in Hospice & Palliative Medicine at Harvard Medical School, with clinical duties split between Massachusetts General Hospital and DFCI.

Presentation(s):

• The Mary Pazdur Award Presentation, Followed by the Keynote Address: "Letting"

  Sunday, November 6, 2022