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.
Early Registration Deadline: April 2, 2025
Last Day to Register: April 29, 2025
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. Dr. Blackford has a special interest in mind-body medicine. She started her medical career with seven years in private practice in Green Bay, Wisconsin, providing office-based, hospital, and nursing home care. In 2002, she and her family set off for the warmer climate of North Carolina in order to live in an area with a more ethnically diverse population and a longer growing season. She joined Durham Medical Center, a part of Duke Primary Care. In 2012, She helped create the Duke Integrative Primary Care Program.
Jeff Brantley, MD, is a native of North Carolina, a physician, psychiatrist, meditation teacher, and author. For most of sixty-six 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.
