Medboard Matters Podcast

In the most recent episode of MedBoard Matters, host, Jean Fisher Brinkley talks with NCMB's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Karen Burke-Haynes about clinician reticence to complete death certificates and how they can re-frame this "final" service to patients.

Posted June 1, 2021 | 
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• Read the statute on death certification
• Read the Board’s position statement on certifying deaths
• Forum article with information and resources
• CDC’s Physician handbook on medical certification of death
• Getting started with NC DAVE
• Learn more about NC’s new electronic death registration system

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Hosts and Guests

Jean Fisher Brinkley

Communications Director, North Carolina Medical Board

Jean Fisher Brinkley is NCMB’s Communications Director, a role that involves developing and overseeing production of communications materials and strategies needed to enhance public and professional awareness and understanding of the Board and its mission. She joined NCMB in 2008, after an 11-year career in newspaper journalism, most of it dedicated to reporting on medicine, health policy and the business aspects of health care.

Brinkley earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and two daughters.

You can reach Jean at podcast@ncmedboard.org