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Facing Our Mortality with Grace and Skill

Program Overview

In our society, end of life is a difficult subject to discuss. Join Duke Integrative Medicine’s Medical Director, Susan Blackford, MD, and Jeff Brantley, MD, founder of Duke’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, for a new program exploring the aging process, grief, loss, and how to face one’s own mortality with grace and strength.

 

Learning Objectives

  • Understand Mindfulness and its impact on the natural human reaction to the end of life
  • Explore and reflect on one’s own perspective on the end of life
  • Understand the education around dying, death, and end-of-life planning

Upcoming Dates and Deadlines

May 2025 (online)

Early Registration Deadline: April 2, 2025
Last Day to Register: April 29, 2025

Schedule

  • Fridays: (1:00 – 3:00 pm EDT) May 2, 9, 16, 30, 2025  via Zoom

Instructors

Susan Blackford, MD and Jeff Brantley, MD

Susan Blackford, MD, enjoys partnering with patients on lifestyle modification and managing complex medical issues using both conventional and complementary approaches. She completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona in 2010 in order to bring a more holistic approach to her practice.  She helped create the Duke Integrative Primary Care Program in 2012 and for the past five years she has served as Practice Medical Director at Duke Integrative Medicine. When not at her busy Integrative Practice, Susan enjoys traveling, organic gardening, music, hiking, and starting more home projects than she can finish.

Jeff Brantley, MD, is a native of North Carolina, a physician, psychiatrist, meditation teacher, and author. For most of seventy five years, he has studied history and humanities, practiced medicine and psychiatry, and personally explored a variety of spiritual traditions and contemplative practices, all with the intention of better understanding and supporting the conditions that can empower anyone to find out for themselves what it means to act as a conscious, compassionate human being in this amazing and complex world.

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