Professional Engagement with Climate & Health

Lightning talks and a discussion with panelists at every level of training.
Authors

  • Hanna Lindstadt

    University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine

    Hanna Linstadt, MD is a practicing emergency medicine physician and the Climate and Health Foundation Fellow in Climate Change and Health Science Policy at the University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine. Her work includes projects investigating methods to make emergency departments more climate-smart by decreasing their carbon footprint and increasing their resiliency.

     

  • Caleb Dresser

    Climate and Human Health Fellow

    Department of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC in Boston

    Caleb Dresser, MD is the Climate and Human Health Fellow at the Department of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC in Boston, Harvard C-Change and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, His work focuses on means to address health needs during and after climate-related disasters, with particular attention to heat waves, tropical cyclones, and wildfires, and is supported by the Climate and Health Foundation.

     

  • Jonathan E. Slutzman, MD

    Instructor in Emergency Medicine

    Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

     

     

  • Gayle Kouklis

    Resident physician in Emergency Medicine

    UCSF Fresno

    Gayle Kouklis, MD is an emergency medicine physician practicing in Seattle and the California Central Valley. She is also a University of Colorado Climate Change and Health Science Policy Fellow. She completed her undergraduate degree in Human Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz, her medical degree at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and her residency training at University of California, San Francisco/Fresno. Her main interests include extreme heat in a multitude of environments ranging from the agricultural California Central Valley and its urban centers to the Arctic and Subarctic regions of Alaska. She also has an interest in urban tree canopy and other nature-based climate solutions and the importance of biodiversity in human health. She values community perspective and designs much of her work as community-based participatory research in an attempt to bring together health equity and environmental justice. She grew up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and is an avid backpacker and trail runner, an aspiring fly fisherwoman and climber, and an enthusiastic eater and chef.

  • Harleen Marwah

    Harleen Marwah founded and leads Medical Students for a Sustainable Future (MS4SF), a community of over 340 medical students from all over the world committed to combating the health consequences of climate change. She was awarded the 2020 Emerging Physician Leader Award by Health Care Without Harm.

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