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June 24, 2019 | Download

Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD, MPH, is a national advocate for transforming the way people die in America.  She is Harvard and UCSF-trained to practice the unusual combination of Critical and Palliative Care medicine.  She works as an Attending Physician at a public hospital in Oakland, California.

Dr. Zitter is the author of the newly released Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life . She is a regular contributor to The New York Times  and her articles have appeared in The Atlantic , Time Magazine , Journal of the American Medical Association, The Washington Post and many other publications.

Dr. Zitter’s work is featured in the Academy and Emmy-nominated short documentary “Extremis,” available on Netflix.