About

“Dr. ChaCha”

Dr. Charlotte Charfen is an American boarded emergency medicine physician, writer, teacher and optimist. 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, even to sacrifice her well-being for the cause. But her own personal practice and her greatest teachers, her patients, showed her another way.

Charlotte calls Hawaii home. Her work continues in emergency medicine and her private practice in North Hawaii and abroad via telemedicine. She helps patients with all end-of-life options and serious illness support.

Dr. ChaCha enjoys developing community programs, consulting with clients, and inspiring others through her teaching and writing to live and die well.

It is her vision to help positively change our death-phobic culture so that  others can fully embrace their own aliveness and personal bliss.

This led her to cofound the nonprofit, Life & Death Wellness, whose mission is to educate and support all life matters, especially the end.