Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine

[Gordon, M.D., Ilyssa]

To The Green Labs Community,

Please share and consider attending if you are at an institution with an AAMC affiliated Medical School/Teaching Hospital  

(most US academic medical centers). Inquiries can be directed to Bill Mallon wma...@aamc.org

 

 

Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine -- Sustainable Science and Green Labs

Laboratories consume 5-10 times more energy than typical office spaces, plus large amounts of water, chemicals, and materials. Add in copious amounts of waste, and labs in academic medical centers and universities have large carbon footprints. How can lab owners and managers, sustainability directors, designers and engineers, principal investigators and researchers, and graduate students and post-docs help make science more sustainable?

 

Join the next collaborative meeting of the Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine community on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 3 pm ET. The session will feature experts on sustainable science and green labs discussing the opportunities to reduce energy usage and waste, promote recycling of lab materials, and foster innovation in laboratory processes. Free registration is required. This event is open to anyone at academic health systems, medical schools, and universities who want to help make science more sustainable.

 

Panelists include:

• Ilyssa Gordon, MD,PhD, medical director of sustainability, Cleveland Clinic
• Wendell Brase, associate chancellor for sustainability, UC Irvine (and awardee of the 2023 Phil Wirdzek Leadership Award from I2SL)
• Emily Colpack, green labs coordinator, UAB

 

 

 

Ilyssa O. Gordon, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology

Division of Anatomic Pathology

Robert J Tomsich Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Diagnostics Institute

Co-Director, Gastrointestinal and Hepatopancreatobiliary Pathology Service

Medical Director, Cleveland Clinic Sustainability

Faculty Lead, Climate and Health Pathway, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic

 

 

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