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2024 Annual Institute Dinner:

Humanizing Health Care through the Power of Storytelling

Keynote Speaker: Jessica Zitter, MD, MPH

Join us for an intimate conversation with Dr. Jessica Zitter about her in-progress film The Chaplain of Oakland including sneak-preview clips and moderated discussion about the importance of racial equity in all phases of life and illness.
Frustrated by watching Black patients suffer due to healthcare inequities, two determined allies — a chaplain and a doctor — work to transform a broken medical system, one patient at a time.
Jessica Zitter, MD, MPH is a physician, documentary filmmaker, and writer working to improve how we die in America. Dr. Zitter was part of the team that created the Oscar and Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, Extremis (2017), which featured her work in the ICU. After founding her own production company, Reel Medicine Media, she went on to create the award-winning documentary, Caregiver: A Love Story (2020), which examines the national crisis of family caregiver burden. Dr. Zitter’s book, Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life (2017), describes her evolution from being a physician focused on medical protocols to one focused on the human being. She was recently named one of Next Avenue’s 2021 “Influencers in Aging.” Dr. Zitter practices both Critical Care and Palliative Care at Highland Hospital, the public hospital in Oakland, California.
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Event Details

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Boston Marriott Newton 
2345 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, MA

Evening Schedule

5:30pm: Check-in, Appetizers and Networking

6:45pm: Program starts

8:30pm: VIP Reception

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