GM 10: It’s Not Just-Us Why Environmental Justice is Important

AGENDA

Agenda:

1. Announcements2. Physicians and the Environment

Panel3. Office Hours

2021-2022

AMSA Board Member Applications

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● Interviews for Committee

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Weekend of 4/17

● Decisions for 2021-2022

Executive Board →

Executive Board Members2021-2022

Co-Presidents: Savinnie and Vivian

Vice President: Mahathi (Ext) and Hannah (Int)

Before the Coats Podcast

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Physicians and the Environment

Christine James, MD, MScDr. James is an allergist-immunologist whose interest in climate change began in fellowship at the University of Cincinnati/Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. During her training, she obtained a master's degree in clinical and translational research in environmental health. Her research focused on the intersection between climate change and allergic-immunologic disease, She is a trained Climate Reality leader, a former Copello fellow of Doctors for America, an active member of Climate Health Now, and a volunteer with Environment America. Christine has also earned a Climate Change and Health Certificate from the Yale School of Public Health.

Sally Kaufman, MD

Dr. Kaufman is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics physician with Kaiser San Diego and Scripps Coastal Medical Group. She completed her medical school training at The Ohio State College of Medicine and her Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at UCSD. It was during and after her training that she began to witness the adverse effects that climate change was having on her patients. She serves as Co-Chair of San Diego’s American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Climate Change and Health Committee.

Angie Neison, MD Dr. Neison is a Family and Culinary Medicine Physician who has always been interested in global health from a preventive medicine perspective. Over the last 3 years, Dr. Neison has promoted the culture of wellness amongst her colleagues, one where the focus is on human and planetary health. She recently advocated a sustainable plant-forward menu that was eventually implemented at all Sharp Healthcare Hospitals in San Diego. She is the Co-Medical Director at VEBA, California’s Public School Employee resource center, where she teaches health promoting culinary medicine classes weekly.

Vi Thuy Nguyen, MDDr. Nguyen is Assistant Chief of Pediatrics at Kaiser San Diego. In her professional life, she helps manage over 90 outpatient general pediatricians with special oversight on the South County and Pediatrics After Hours Clinic. She is responsible for Pediatric Quality measures with special emphasis on pediatric asthma health and vaccine measures. Originally earning her MD at Harvard Medical School and trained in general pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vi has pivoted her career to focus on environmental health. She is a trained Climate Reality Leader and hopes to start a Pediatric Sustainability Medicine Fellowship at Kaiser San Diego.

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