{"id":61845,"date":"2018-09-20T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=61845"},"modified":"2018-09-20T10:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T14:01:55","slug":"provost-workshop-climate-change-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2018\/09\/20\/provost-workshop-climate-change-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Provost Workshop: Climate Change and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
Monday, Oct. 22
\n3-5 p.m.
\nInstructional Building, Hiebert Lounge<\/h5>\n

The discussion will center on the existing and expected health impacts of climate change, and the current and developing plans by the city of Boston and BU to\u00a0address these impacts.<\/p>\n

Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nAaron ‘Ari’ Bernstein, MD, MPH
\n<\/strong>Dr. Bernstein is assistant faculty director of Climate Change & Health Initiative at the Harvard Global Health Institute; associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment; and a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nKrupa Patel, MD
\n<\/strong>Dr. Patel is an internal medicine-preventive medicine resident at BMC and pursuing her master’s in Epidemiology at BUSPH. As part of her public health practicum, she is working with the Boston Public Health Commission to update their extreme temperatures response plan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nAlisha Pegan
\n<\/strong>Ms. Pegan is coordinator of the City of Boston’s “Climate Ready Boston”\u00a0initiatives. Her work centers around heat preparedness, green infrastructure, infrastructure coordination and the development of the Greenovate Leaders program.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nAnthony Janetos, PhD
\n<\/strong>Dr. Janetos is director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Earth and Environment. He is an expert on climate change and has been a lead author on several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has served as chair of the BU Climate Action Plan Taskforce.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\nPaige Machado, MD | Moderator
\n<\/strong>Dr. Machado, a 2018 graduate of BUSM and a founding member of the BUMC Climate Action Group, is an emergency medicine resident at BMC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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