Dr. BJ Miller is a longtime hospice & palliative medicine physician and educator. He’s been onfaculty at his alma mater, UCSF, since 2007 and has worked in all settings of care: hospital, clinic, residential facility, and home. BJ’s career has been dedicated to moving healthcare towards a human centered approach, on a policy as well as a personal level. Led by his own experiences as a patient, BJ advocates for the roles of our senses, community and presence in designing a better ending. His interests are in working across disciplines to affect broad-based 
culture change, cultivating a civic model for aging and dying and furthering the message that suffering, illness, and dying are fundamental and intrinsic aspects of life.
He has given over 100 talks nationally, and internationally, on the topics of death, dying, palliative care and the intersection of healthcare with design. His 2015 TED Talk: “Not Whether But How” (aka “What Matters Most at the End of Life”), has been viewed over 11 million times
been the subject of multiple interviews and podcasts, including Oprah Winfrey, PBS, The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, GOOP, Krista Tippett, Tim Ferriss and the TED Radio Hour.
Recently, BJ founded Mettle Health.
Mettle Health provides personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability. We are the first patient- and caregiver-centric palliative care delivery system accessible to everyone, irrespective of geography, without a doctor’s referral. Mettle Health is comprised of
palliative care clinicians, but operates outside of the traditional medical system; making it a social service staffed by medical professionals. Patients and caregivers dealing with serious or chronic illness should be able to count on sound
information and enough emotional support to feel confident in the choices they make, whatever
their circumstances; Mettle Health will make that possible.
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