Filmmaker-physician and hospital chaplain join the next VITALS
Jessica Zitter, M.D., a palliative care, pulmonary and critical care physician and founder of Reel Medicine Media, and Chaplain Betty Clark, a hospice and palliative care chaplain, join VITALS | Visionary Health Leadership in Action at noon, Thursday, Aug. 6, via Zoom.
The pair will discuss their work together as documented in the film, The Chaplain and the Doctor.
VITALS is NEOMED's health leadership speaker series presented with University Hospitals.
CME credit is available.
ABOUT DR. JESSICA ZITTER
Jessica Zitter is an advocate for improving the way we die in America. Throughout her 25 years as an ICU physician, she has had a front-row seat to the public health crisis of over-mechanized dying. Her mission is to unveil this hidden crisis through personal narrative and the stories of real patients — and to envision a new way forward. She is the founder of Reel Medicine Media, which uses documentary film and storytelling to inspire healthcare providers to connect to their sacred work with purpose, community and compassion for the benefit of society.
Whether caring for patients, making films, writing or speaking on the national stage, her message is clear: we must bring more honesty, compassion and justice to the care of patients with serious and end-stage illness. In that way, we will achieve the best life possible for all.
ABOUT CHAPLAIN BETTY CLARK
Chaplain Betty Clark has a Master of Divinity degree from the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, California. She has worked as a hospice chaplain for 16 years and a palliative care chaplain at Alameda Health system for 12 years. She has certificates in palliative care chaplaincy, managing spiritual care and grief counseling.
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