Guy Micco is a co-director of the Program for Medical Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, and clinical professor, emeritus, at the Joint Medical Program of UC Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.

Biography:

Guy Micco is a physician who has combined teaching as a clinical professor, now emeritus, at UC Berkeley, with a part-time medical practice in internal medicine and hospice and palliative care. His interests include suffering, aging, and death; the interface of medicine and the humanities; and medical ethics. He is co-Director of the UC Berkeley Program for the Medical Humanities and former Director of the UC Berkeley Resource Center on Aging. For many years, while practicing primary care internal medicine in Berkeley, he was an ethics committee chair at Alta Bates-Summit Medical Center.