Clinical Climate Change Conference

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Friday, January 24, 2020

 

New York Academy of Medicine

1216 5th Avenue (at East 103rd Street)

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AGENDA

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  7:45 AM        Breakfast and Check in

 

  8:30 AM         Introductions 

      Dorie Klissas, Mount Sinai Health System

      Robert Wright, MD, MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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  8:40 AM        Keynote Address - Health Care in the Time of Climate Crisis: An Earth Ethics Perspective 

      Karenna Gore, Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary 

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  9:25 AM        Exposomics and Climate Change
                         Robert Wright, MD, MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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10:05 AM        Break

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10:20 AM        Seasonal Cycles of Infectious Diseases and Environmental Factors of Disease Transmission
                         Nick DeFelice, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

                         Allan Just, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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11:00 AM        Balancing Patient Safety and Public Health: The Dilemma of Health Care Pollution

                         Jodi Sherman, MD, Yale School of Medicine

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11:40 AM        Justice in the Era of the Climate Crisis
                         Surili Patel, American Public Health Association

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12:15 PM         Poster Session, Judging, and Lunch

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  1:25 PM        Role of Rising CO2 on Nutritional Quality
                         Lewis Ziska, PhD, Columbia University

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  2:00 PM        The "State of the Air" and 50th Anniversary of the Clean Air Act                         

                         Albert Rizzo, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM, American Lung Association 

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  2:35 PM        Break

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  2:45 PM        Concurrent Workshops A & B

                         Workshops A & B are concurrent. 

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                         Workshop A: Managing Respiratory and Cardiovascular Diseases

                         Albert Rizzo, MD, FACP, FCCP, FAASM, Chief Medical Officer, American Lung Association 

                         Emily Senay, MD, MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

                         Erin Thanik, MD, MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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                         Workshop B: Managing Heat Exposure in Vulnerable Populations

                         Roberto Lucchini, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

                         Ismail Nabeel, MD, MPH, FACOEM, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

                         Perry Sheffield, MD, MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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  4:00 PM        Poster Awards

 

                       Communication and Advocacy in the Climate Crisis

                         Cecil Corbin-Mark, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
                         Surili Patel, American Public Health Association

                         Aracely Jimenez, Sunrise Movement

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  5:15 PM         Reception

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  6:15 PM         Program ends