Dr. Ira Byock, Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Dr. Miriam Piven Cotler will discuss "What Mortality Can Teach Us About Living Fully." Dr. Byock is a leading palliative care physician and public advocate for improving care through the end of life and the Founder and Chief Medical Officer for the Institute for Human Caring of Providence St. Joseph Health and has been involved in hospice and palliative care. Miriam Piven Cotler, Ph.D. is a Clinical Ethicist and consultant at several hospitals and with the Ethics Advisory Council of the California Medical Association.
Sponsor: University Synagogue