Gayle Kouklis

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.