Dr. Charlotte Charfen
“Dr. ChaCha”
Physician – Author – Optimist
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.
~ Steve Jobs
Charlotte Charfen, MD
Dr. ChaCha is an American boarded emergency medicine physician, writer, and educator. With over twenty years of clinical practice in the field of Life and Death, she has spent much of her career on the front lines in urban, community and rural emergency departments across the country. Dr. Charfen’s rigorous training in Detroit, prepared her to do battle with the most dangerous of enemies …Death. Western medicine taught her to fear and defeat this nemesis at all costs. But her own personal practice and her greatest teachers, her patients, showed her another way.
Life & Death Wellness
Life & Death Wellness is a nonprofit community center offering education, support, and resources to help individuals live well at any stage of life. Founded by Dr. Charlotte Charfen, it is rooted in the belief that everyone has the power to live fully, even in the face of death or illness. Dr. Charfen envisioned a safe and welcoming space where people could unite and share their strengths to navigate life’s challenges together.