End Well Symposium | Design for the End of Life Experience
More info: endwellproject.org
End Well is a first of its kind gathering of design, tech, health care and activist communities with the goal of generating human-centered, interdisciplinary innovation for the end of life experience.
Join us for an immersive experience of fast-paced talks and interactive discussions building on the growing movement to change our relationship to what it means for ALL of us to live WELL until the very end.
Confirmed speakers include:
-- BJ Miller, MD (UCSF palliative care physician, former Exec Dir of Zen Hospice Project, TED talk viewed over 5 million times)
-- Ali Shaheed Muhammad (hip-hop artist, writer and producer from A Tribe Called Quest)
-- Michael Hebb (Entrepreneur, Founder, Death Over Dinner)
-- Eric Weinstein, PhD (Managing Director, Thiel Capital)
-- Anthony Bossis, PhD (Director, Palliative Care Research & Co-Principal Investigator, NYU Cancer Anxiety / Psilocybin Research Project, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Department of Psychiatry)
-- Lucy Kalanithi, MD (Stanford Medicine faculty member, widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi who wrote the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air)
-- Pam Hinds, PhD, RN (Director of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes, Children's National Health System)
-- Laurel Braitman, PhD (Writer in Residence at Stanford Medical School, New York Times bestselling author, Historian)
-- Yoko Sen (sound engineer, SenSound)
-- Alexandra Drane (co-founder Eliza Corporation, co-founder Engage with Grace)
-- Dawn Gross, MD, PhD (oncologist, palliative care physician, Host of Dying to Talk Radio on 91.7 KALW)
-- Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD, MPH (ICU and palliative care physician, featured in Extremis documentary, journalist in New York Times, The Atlantic and Huffington Post)
-- Frank Ostaseski (Co-Founder - Zen Hospice Project; Founder & Director - Metta Institute)
-- Ivor Williams (lead healthcare designer focused on end of life care at Helix Centre UK)
-- Chris Waugh (Chief Innovation Officer, Sutter Health)
-- Tracy Gaudet, MD (Director, VA Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation)
-- Reverend Cynthia Carter Perrilliat (Minister of Civic Engagement Allen Temple Baptist Church; Executive Director - Alameda County Care Alliance)
-- Torrie Fields, MPH (Cancer survivor, Senior Program Manager, Palliative Care, Blue Shield of California)
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Venue and address
InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, 888 Howard St Fl 6, 94103 San Francisco
- Thu12/07/20178:00 AMTickets
Tickets for December 7, 2017
End Well Symposium | Design for the End of Life Experience
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