Pediatrician

Dr. Cisneros received a BA in Environmental Analysis from Pomona College and MD from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed pediatrics residency training at UCSF Fresno. He worked in an underserved community in Los Angeles until moving to Pittsburgh where he currently works with Children's Community Pediatrics Bass Wolfson. He also serves as Medical Director of Children's Express Care Shadyside. He co-chairs both the Advocacy Committee and Climate and Environmental Health Committee of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. An outdoor enthusiast, he enjoys running, backpacking, surfing and traveling with his wife, daughter and dog.

Director of Clinical Operations - Pediatric Sedation Service/ Sustainability Team Director - Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Originally from Colombia, South America, where she attended Medical School at the Javeriana University School of medicine, Dr. Angelelli then completed her Pediatric Residency Training at the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP). She has experience in emergency medicine and is currently the Director of the CHP Pediatric Sedation Service.

She is also a community and environmental health advocate, leading reforestation efforts in the city and its surroundings and serving as the Director for the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Green/Sustainability Team. She is also co-founder of Tree Pittsburgh's ""One Tree Per Child Pittsburgh Program and a member of the Board of Directors of Tree Pittsburgh.

The current focus of her work in the environmental world includes trees as a public health intervention and efforts to decrease the carbon footprint of regional healthcare systems.

Assistant Professor of ObGyn

Noe Woods, FACOG, MD has been a member of the faculty at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since February of 2007 after several years as an ObGyn on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Chinle Arizona. She is currently an Assistant Professor and practicing Obstetrician/Gynecologist at Magee Women’s Hospital specializing in gynecologic ultrasound.

Dr. Woods has been a primary investigator for life cycle analysis of medical procedures and is a frequent speaker on environmental sustainability in medicine.

Associate Professor

As a public health nurse for over 20 years, Dr. Gina Alexander has worked with maternal/child populations and vulnerable communities, primarily low-income, underserved populations. In recent years, she has partnered with schools and non-profit organizations in southeast Fort Worth. In addition, she is a consultant for continuing professional development with the Tarrant County Public Health Department, where she also serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Nurse-Family Partnership. Within the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, she serves as the appointed representative of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators.

Dr. Alexander teaches public health nursing at the undergraduate level and research advising at the graduate level. With a research background in integrative therapies for health promotion and self-care, her scholarship focuses on promoting food literacy and environmental health literacy across the lifespan with emphasis on nature-based health promotion/therapeutics. As a co-developer of RxPLORE™: Prescribing Life Outdoors and Real Exploration, she collaborates with undergraduate and graduate students and faculty from a diverse range of disciplines on nature-based health promotion and conservation efforts.

Assistant Professor and Family Nurse Practitioner

Dr. Vicki Brooks is an assistant professor, at Texas Christian University. She is the BSN to DNP FNP program coordinator at Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences and practicing family nurse practitioner at Integra Urgent Care clinic. Her advocacy and passion for rural health and NP education is evident in her daily life. Dr. Brooks is a member of American Association of Nurse Practitioners, National Rural Health Association Policy Fellow, elected board member of American Association for the History of Nursing, National Organization Nurse Practitioners Faculty cochair for Health Policy Education, Texas Nurse Practitioner legislative ambassador and rural health initiatives member. She has been a practicing family nurse practitioner for 19 years in rural Texas.

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Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Dr. Tammie S. Williams is an assistant professor of professional practice at Texas Christian University where she also serves as the clinical coordinator for Adult Health with Alterations 1 at Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences. She has over 24 years of experience as a registered nurse and over 10 years’ experience as a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Apart from her academic work, she practices as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Murdock Health, PLLC. She also volunteers as a Family Nurse Practitioner for the Hope Clinic of McKinney, where she treats and manages the underserved population of McKinney, Texas. Dr. Williams has a special interest in adolescence and underserved populations. She is a member of the Collin County Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority, North Texas Nurse Practitioners, Texas Nurse Practitioners, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the National League for Nurses.

Family Physician & Medical Director, Kickapoo Valley Medical Clinic. President of Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action.

Joel Charles is a full spectrum family physician practicing in rural southwest Wisconsin where he serves as medical director for the Kickapoo Valley Medical Clinic. From the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health he received his MD and Master of Public Health degrees, the latter focusing on climate and health. He attended both those programs as a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship. He completed residency at Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency. Upon returning to Wisconsin he helped found and became president of Wisconsin health Professionals for Climate Action, a fast growing group of health professionals committed to advocating for equitable solutions to the climate crisis. He has a 3 year old son Finn and an infant daughter Juniper, who help him remember why he does this work.

Podiatric Surgeon

Dr. René Settle-Robinson has served the Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action as Co-Chair of the Antiracism Committee. She is excited to increase her knowledge while networking with other like-minded professionals to achieve effective climate action.

Primary Care Internist

Victoria Gillet, MD is a primary care internist and educator in Milwaukee, WI. She went to the University of Chicago for medical school and completed a Internal Medicine Primary Care residency and chief residency at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her educational endeavors focus on social determinants of health with a particular focus on health inequities in Wisconsin. She is also a dedicated climate change activist. She is the Executive Policy lead for WHPCA's Policy & Advocacy work group, an Executive Committee member for Sierra Club Great Waters Group, and an active member of the Sierra Club Wisconsin Chapter Beyond Coal Team. Her advocacy work focuses on decarbonizing Wisconsin's energy grid and reducing the burden of environmental racism in Milwaukee.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Catherine Chen is a hospitalist and Assistant Professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her focus is in bringing healthcare systems towards environmentally conscious and sustainable care delivery. She is also an active member of the Clinicians for Climate Action of NJ.

Registered Nurse

Morgan Park practices nursing in her home state of New Jersey. She earned her BSN from the College of New Jersey and her DNP in Nursing Leadership from Rutgers University. Morgan has a background in medical surgical nursing, community health and forensic nursing. She is a member of Clinicians for Climate Action NJ and the Association of Nurses for a Health Environment, and is board certified as an Advanced Holistic Nurse through the American Holistic Nurses Association. Morgan is passionate about environmental justice, planetary health, and building global resilience to climate change, especially in connection to food sovereignty and vulnerable communities. Morgan devotes her time to caring for her family, her local church, permaculture gardening, and working as a Covid-19 Vaccinator.

Medical Student

Andrea Radossi is a medical student at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (RowanSOM). She received a BS in Health Science from Northeastern University and graduated from Georgetown University with an MS in Physiology, Biophysics and Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She dedicated the first several years of her career to understanding the role of lifestyle, mindfulness and other complementary therapies in wellbeing. She has assisted in meditation and integrative medicine research at Rowan University, Massachusetts General Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center. She additionally served as a Health Coach for RowanSOM’s Healthy Lifestyle Center and was Vice President of Rowan SOM's Students for Integrative Medicine.

Ms. Radossi's clinical interests involve the role of lifestyle and behavior in chronic disease prevention and treatment, and have recently expanded to include the impact of the climate crisis on human health. She hopes to raise public awareness to the urgency of climate change and improve the environmental sustainability of her community by partnering with local institutions and government. She plans to complete her residency in internal medicine with the goal of becoming a primary care physician focused on the role of environment and lifestyle in health.

Cardiologist

Inga Robbins is a non-invasive cardiologist with a passion for reducing cardiovascular health disparities in underserved urban environments. She is embedded in a Federally Qualified Healthcare center in the heart of Atlantic City. She is interested in reducing these cardiovascular disparities in the population she serves by improving access to healthy lifestyle, cardiac specialty care, and of course by minimizing the impacts of climate change.

Associate Professor, School of Nursing; Associate Director Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health MGH Institute of Health Professions

Dr. Suellen Breakey is a Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Associate Director of the Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Charlestown MA. She received a BS in Biology from Salem State University, an MSN in Critical Care Nursing from the MGH Institute of Health Professions, and a PhD in Nursing from Boston College. Prior to moving to academia, Dr. Breakey's clinical experience was primarily in critical care and cardiac surgery. In addition, for over ten years, she was a leader with Team Heart, a nonprofit organization that performed comprehensive care for patients with rheumatic heart disease that included echocardiographic screening, surgical care, patient education, and clinician training in Rwanda. Dr. Breakey and her colleagues in the Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health have educated more than 3000 health care providers and community members about the health impacts of climate change and have led efforts to integrate these concepts into curricula across nursing programs at the Institute. She and her team will focus on engaging the Charlestown community to address the climate impacts of pollution and heat on pregnant people, mothers, and babies.

Assistant Professor

Oluwatomisin (Tomisin) Olayinka is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions. She has been a nurse for 10 years and has practiced in a variety of settings, including acute care transplant and labor and delivery. Dr. Olayinka’s research focuses on exploring the effect of an affirmative approach to initiate and drive behavior change in an outpatient setting. She completed a small, pilot study that explored the effectiveness of an Appreciative Inquiry intervention to improve self-management in patients with Hypertension. Dr. Olayinka’s research interest are health behavior, self-management, obesity, and hypertension. Dr. Olayinka is passionate about nursing and its role in public health.

Associate Professor

Kathy Simmonds is a Women's Health/Gender-related Nurse Practitioner, and an Associate Professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She is a Steering Committee member on the MGH IHP's Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice and Health, and is the current co-chair of the Alliance for Nurses for a Healthy Environment Global Nurses Climate Change Committee. She is particularly interested in the intersections between Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice.

Nurse Operations Coordinator

Hannah Noel-Bouchard, BSN, RN is a public health nurse and the Nurse Operations Coordinator for the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE). She supports the organization’s staff and nurse members, who are working in communities across the nation to promote healthy environments. Along with her work at ANHE, Hannah is a Doctorate in Nursing Practice - Health Innovation and Leadership student at the University of Minnesota, where she plans to graduate in 2024. Hannah has experience in cardiac/telemetry, research nursing, home health care, and school nursing. After participating in ANHE’s inaugural Environmental Health Nurse Fellowship program, Hannah continues to build relationships and work with local communities to better understand, prepare for, and mitigate the negative health effects of climate change and polluted air, soil, and water.

Clinical Instructor: Public/Community Health at the University of Minnesota

Sophia Iaquinta is receiving her degree at the University of Minnesota as a dual Master of Public Health and Doctor of Nursing Practice student in Health Innovation and Leadership. Professionally she has served as a Maternal and Child health Specialist with the Peace Corps in Guatemala and as an intensive care nurse, most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic. WIth a commitment to equity and a passion for planetary and migrant health, Sophia uses her voice to advocate for improved interdisciplinary collaboration and seek inclusive solutions.

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Registered Nurse

Throughout her career, Pang Lor, BSN, RN, has been a consultant, advocate, and caregiver for Midway Home Health Care and community members in Minnesota. In those roles, she has worked with people from a variety of backgrounds, with a variety of chronic illnesses, and with disabilities. She is a supervisor, advance trainer, and mentor. Pang is currently pursuing her DNP with a focus on Health Innovation and Leadership.

Associate Director of CARE

Annie Rosenthal, MSW, is a social worker living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Associate Director of UC Hastings College of the Law's CARE program, which provides gender-based violence prevention and response services to the campus community. She also researches and writes about the impact of climate change issues on health equity.

Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public health

Dr. Rohini Haar is an emergency medicine physician and scholar based in Berkeley, California. Dr. Haar's research, teaching and practice have focused on protection of populations in crisis. She practices Emergency Medicine in Oakland, California and holds faculty positions at UC Berkeley and Columbia University where she teaches courses on health and human rights, global health ethics and epidemiological investigation of human rights abuses. Her work the protection of human rights in times of complex humanitarian crises and conflict. She is particularly interested in the protection of health workers and health services in conflict, crisis and disaster settings. Dr. Haar’s research interests include studying the impact of human rights violations, such as torture, violations of free speech and assembly, and war crimes, on health. She leads studies on the impact of violence against healthcare research in humanitarian settings, the health impacts of crowd control weapons and the social, economic and health consequences of wildfires in California. She received her BA and MD from the University of Chicago and her MPH from Columbia University. She trained in emergency medicine at the NYU/Bellevue Hospitals.

Fellowship, Events and Programs Coordinator, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley Law

Alexey Berlind is the Fellowship, Programs, and Events Coordinator of the Human Rights Center. He coordinates the Human Rights Center's Fellowship Program, addressing a broad range of human rights, social justice and climate issues. He also curates and manages the center's events and thematic event series and oversees the center’s office operations and logistics.

Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, Boston Medical Center, Boston University

Miriam Komaromy, MD, is a professor of medicine at Boston University, and a specialist in addiction treatment. She is medical director of Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction. She and her wife, Julie Rosen, moved to Boston from New Mexico in 2019. Miriam has participated for years in climate and environmental organizations such as 350.org, Sierra Club, NM Wilderness Alliance. She is ready to make some noise and take her climate activism to the next level!

Senior Program Manager

Rev. Vernon K. Walker is originally born and raised in Philadelphia. Rev. Walker attended Penn State University for college where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Organizational Leadership and a minor in Psychology. After graduating from Penn State University, Rev. Walker attended Boston University and earned a Master Degree in Theological Studies (M.T.S) with a focus on community engagement.

Rev. Walker is also academically trained in MSW macro social work practices as he took a plethora of courses at Boston University's School of Social Work. Rev. Walker is a Senior Fellow at the Environmental Leadership Program and Senior Fellow at Tufts University Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life through the Institute for Nonprofit Practice.

Rev. Walker is a current Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus Center for Collaborative Leadership. Rev. Walker is also a current Fellow at Hebrew College's Boston Bridges Fellowship.

Throughout his time in Boston, Rev. Walker has appeared in several different newspapers such as: Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Bay State Banner, Commonwealth Magazine, and other newspapers for his work related to social justice. Rev. Walker has also made TV appearances on Fox 25, New England Cable News, Boston Neighborhood Network, CBS Boston, and NBC 10 Boston. Rev. Walker has also lectured about his social justice work at various universities and colleges across the United States.

Primary care internist

Susan Racine, MD, practices general internal medicine as a primary care physician at Atrius Health. She is a board member of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, a physician led organization of health professionals and community members working to address the threat of nuclear war and climate change. She is a member of Climate Code Blue, physician advocacy group working on climate change. She was a member of Mass Health Professionals for Clean Energy, a grassroots organization of health care providers working to advance the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy in Massachusetts. She also took part in her Boston neighborhood’s campaign to prevent the construction of a high-pressure gas pipeline across the street from an actively blasting quarry. She is a leader in the ecological ministry at Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain. 

Chief Health Officer

"In her primary care practice Dr. Sheetal Khedkar Rao regularly counseled patients about diet, exercise and other individual health factors. However, when recurring downpours caused her home to flood three times, she felt the impact of environment on wellness and began to see climate change as a social determinant of health. She became active in her medical group’s sustainability committee, joined Healthcare Without Harm, and started an organization to promote environmental education in her town. For Dr. Rao, each of these endeavors further illustrated how closely the health of our climate is intertwined with the health of our communities.

As Chief Health Officer of the Illinois nonprofit Nordson Green Earth Foundation (NGEF), she emphasizes the impact of tree canopy on health equity. Dr. Rao was recently awarded a University of Colorado School of Medicine Health and Climate Fellowship that begins in July of 2022. This program offers her the opportunity to work with both a federal agency and a Non-Governmental Organization to address the impact of climate change on health.

Dr. Rao studied Internal Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington D.C and completed her residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Rao currently sits on her local elementary Board of Education (BOE) and has served as Chair of the Academic committee and Board Secretary during her tenure. As one of two physicians on the BOE in 2020, she helped guide pandemic mitigation responses and a successful school reopening campaign in a district of over 4,000 students and staff. She combats medical misinformation as a member of the Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team (IMPACT) and has written perspective pieces for IMPACT and KevinMD. Dr. Rao has been quoted in the New York Times and The Atlantic on the topic of moral injury in healthcare. She is an avid reader and runner and is lead singer for a cover band called The Jungleez. Dr. Rao resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two sons.

Chief Operations Officer, Nordson Green Earth Foundation and Senior Research Associate, Univ of IL Rockford School of Medicine

Christine Dannhausen-Brun, MPH is a mother, public health researcher, and photographer who was raised in Door County, Wisconsin. Growing up the oldest of six children, what her family lacked in finances was more than made up for in life enriching experiences in such a remote area of the state. Watching her mother go through many health issues and seeing her parents give back to their community, Christine always knew her life’s work would be tied to health care and giving back. The University of Chicago and medical school were Christine’s dream from the age of 5. UChicago’s rigor kicked her butt initially, but she eventually landed on the Dean’s list and received a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Rejection from medical school led to experiences in research and program evaluation and eventually a master’s in public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health where she was elected to the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society.

Christine is currently Chief Operations Officer at Nordson Green Earth Foundation working to create vibrant, healthy communities by improving tree equity using the Miyawaki method. And she is a Senior Research Specialist in the Division of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Illinois Rockford School of Medicine where she works on program evaluation for the CDC and Illinois Department of Public Health as well as on community health surveys. Christine has an extensive background in preventive and public health research and program evaluation through her work at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and La Rabida-University of Chicago Research and Policy Center. Christine’s research experience includes qualitative and quantitative research, instrument development and longitudinal research projects. She has decades of development experience raising funds for various organizations and helping them find new ways to engage donors. Christine has also spent over two decades donating her time to local schools, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts of America and Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team. Christine loves a challenge whether it is a marathon or Olympic lifting. But Christine is happiest observing the world through her camera lens on a boat on Lake Michigan with her husband and six children or walking the family’s Saint Bernard and Golden Retriever around Chicago’s western suburbs.

Physician

Dr. Meeta Jain Patel’s summer trips to India were punctuated by extreme temperatures, monsoon rains, daily power outages, and inequitable access to clean drinking water. These experiences brought into sharp focus the effect of climate on health at an early age. An interest in the sciences later led to a career in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Patel's clinical practice focuses on treating patients with functional impairments due to medical conditions. These patients are often from the most disadvantaged communities and endure the strongest impacts of climate change.

Observing human suffering due to climate change motivated Dr. Patel to pursue environmental advocacy with organizations focused on clean air and clean water initiatives. In 2021, Dr. Patel joined the Illinois nonprofit Nordson Green Earth Foundation (NGEF) as its Director for Community Outreach. NGEF is committed to working in partnership with historically marginalized urban communities in Chicago to increase tree canopy to combat the effects of climate change.

A passionate supporter of high-quality public education and extra-curricular activities for her community’s youth, Dr. Patel was elected to her local school district’s Board of Education in 2017, where she held numerous leadership positions. She has also worked with Destination Imagination elementary school teams to compete international STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) competitions.

Dr. Patel earned her Bachelor of Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed medical school at Southern Illinois University-School of Medicine. She went on to complete residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab/Northwestern University, formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Since completing residency in 2004, Dr. Patel has been in private practice in the Chicagoland area. In 2017, she joined Anthem, Inc. as a Medical Director in the Medicare/Government Business Division. In her free time, you can find Dr. Patel outside tending to her garden or hiking/skiing with her two daughters and husband.

Medical Community Climate Organizer, Mom, Primary Care Physician

Dr Ashley McClure, FACP is a Seattle native, who went to medical school at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington. She has been practicing outpatient primary care in Oakland, California since 2016. She had her climate awakening while at home on maternity leave with her 5month old daughter, Callalucia born May 2018. That August she happened upon the Inconvenient Truth sequel during one of Calla’s naps, and as a new mama realized her daughter’s safety is incompatible with a fossil fueled business as usual world. Then during the Paradise Fire in November 2018 while breathing unsafe levels of particulate matter for 13 days, , she realized she had to reorient her life around doing everything possible to prevent this being her daughter’s— and all our children’s future. Since her climate awakening, she’s been organizing the medical community as a CMA and AMA alternate delegate and as a co-founder of Climate Health Now.

She is deeply inspired by community organizers like Marshall Ganz, MLK Jr, Dr Bernard Lown and Cesar Chavez an her aspiration is to catalyze the medical community truly fulfilling our social contract with humanity, by leveraging every ounce of our social influence and uniquely trusted voices to advocate for policy-level climate justice solutions in order to protect health. Her life’s work is working with colleagues to bring the entire medical community fully in to the climate justice movement. She welcomes your reaching out if you’re inspired to link arms in activism and advocacy-- and she hopes you do-- together can be powerful.

Ashley co-founded CHN with Dr Amanda Millstein

MD/PhD Student

Meghana Pagadala is an MD/PhD student co-mentored by Drs. Hannah Carter and Jill Mesirov focused on understanding germline-somatic interactions underlying the tumor immune microenvironment. She received her BS in Chemistry from Caltech. Her previous research has been on TCR mispairing under the mentorship of Dr. Baltimore at Caltech and CD8+ FoxP3+ T cells under the mentorship of Dr. Aurora at SLU School of Medicine. She is also involved in organized medicine and climate health, including California Medical Association (CMA) and Climate Health Now (CHN).

MD/PhD Candidate, University of California – Irvine Medical Scientist Training Program

Sarah Mae Smith is a medical student at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, where she is pursuing her M.D. and Ph.D. in the Medical Scientist Training Program. Ms. Smith is the recipient of a T32 fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS/NIH). She is completing her Ph.D. dissertation in the laboratory of Charles Limoli, Ph.D., where she is studying irradiation- and chemotherapy-induced neurocognitive dysfunction and potential stem cell-based therapies, with the goal of mitigating these iatrogenic effects for future cancer patients. Originally from upstate New York, Ms. Smith is an alumnus of Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Neuroscience. She is an active member of the American Medical Association and the California Medical Association, serving on the Board of Trustees of the AMA from 2019 to 2020 and of the CMA from January 2021 to present. She served on the AMA Council on Medical Service for two years and chaired the Council’s Committee on Health System Reform, as well as in numerous positions with the AMA Medical Student Section, including as MSS Delegate on the Governing Council. Ms. Smith also served on the CMA Council on Medical Services, the CALPAC Board of Directors, the CMA Council on Legislation, and the CMA Council on Ethical, Legal & Judicial Affairs. She is passionate about furthering health equity and justice and addressing social determinants of health, and views climate change as among the preeminent public health crises facing the medical community.

Director, Kedren Vaccines, Family & Community Medicine Physician, Global Injury Epidemiologist, Medical Quality Specialist, Treasurer-Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA, Trustee-California Medical Association CMA, Councilor-American Medical Association AMA, Delegate-United States Pharmacopeia USP, Adjunct Faculty-Charles Drew University

General Pediatrician

"Dr. Goldstein is a General Pediatrician in private practice in NYC for 40 years, now transitioned to Northwell Health Physician Partners part-time. He has a Bachelor of Science with Honors and Distinction in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics from Cornell University. He received his MD degree at the State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center and did his Pediatric internship and residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center (now Cohen Children’s Medical Center) with a stint as Chief Pediatric Resident at Queens Hospital Center. Past relevant work includes a term as President of Chapter 2 of the New York State American Academy of Pediatrics (Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties) and he is current Chair of the Committee on Environmental Health and Climate Change for Chapter 2 and a NYS Climate Change Advocate for the National AAP. He coordinates the 3 NY Chapters’ work on Climate and Environmental Health issues. He served as Past President of Shelter Rock Jewish Center and is its current Green Committee Chair. His website, The Aspiring Green Pediatrician, attempts to educate and engage patients and physicians about issues relevant to climate change and environmental health.

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Pediatric Surgeon

Colleen Fitzpatrick, MD is a pediatric surgeon at Northwell Health, NY where she currently serves as the Chief of Pediatric Surgery at NYC HHC Kings County and as a staff surgeon at Cohen Children's Medical Center. Dr. Fitzpatrick attended medical school at the University of Miami and trained in general surgery with the US Air Force at Wilford Hall Medical Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas. She did her pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit. Subsequently she fulfilled her active duty commitment at the San Antonio Military Medical Center and the Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, St. Louis. During her time in the Air Force, Dr. Fitzpatrick deployed to Afghanistan and served as the Pediatric Surgery Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General. Prior to returning home to New York, she was the Division Chief for Pediatric Surgery at St. Louis University and the Surgeon-in-Chief at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. Dr. Fitzpatrick has a keen interest in the environment and sustainability practices. She is currently pursuing an MPA with a concentration in environmental policy and sustainability management from Columbia University and aims to work toward healthcare sustainability.

Physician

Ariella Nadler works as a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. She went to medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her residency and fellowship at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. She is originally from Toronto, CA and now lives with her family in the Bronx. She cares deeply about curbing the human impact on climate change and is looking forward to gaining skills to help accomplish this through the climate health organizing fellows program.

Director of Ambulatory Pediatric Cardiology at Northwell Health; Chief, Pediatric Cardiology at Huntington Hospital

Dr. Schiff has been a Pediatric Cardiologist for over 35 years. He is presently employed by Northwell Health in New York as Director of Ambulatory Cardiology. He is part of the Pediatric Cardiology Division at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York and Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Huntington Hospital. He is a former President of the Long Island Board of Directors of the American Heart Association. Presently on the Finance, Strategy and Development Committee for the American Society of Echocardiography. Over many years, he has volunteered his extensive advocacy experience on the New York State and Federal level with multiple non-profit organizations. Graduate of the Energeia Partnership for Regional Stewardship at Molloy College - a leadership academy dedicated to identifying and addressing the serious, complex and multi-dimensional issues challenging Long Island. Dr. Schiff is committed over many years, to help craft a better future for region.

Manager, Ambulatory Care Management

Lisa grew up in New England developing a deep connection to the natural world at a young age. At Dartmouth College, she majored in Native American and Environmental Studies which presented her with new ways to think about land, law, and natural and human communities. As an advanced practice nurse and public health practitioner she has worked at the intersection of clinical care and community health, focusing on transforming our healthcare system from the inside to be more just, effective and collaborative with the people and communities it serves. She’s held positions in community health, mental health, and oncology and palliative care, epidemiology research, nursing education and management, and program and project management. Currently she works at Cambridge Health Alliance, a public health care system serving a low income, ethnically diverse population north and west of Boston, MA. She has the privilege to coach a diverse team of nurses, social workers, and community health workers in developing creative strategies to improve the well-being of people with highly complex health challenges. Engaging her personal networks to respond to the great moral crisis of climate change been a top priority for many years, and she’s active in climate change advocacy in her city, faith communities, and workplace.

Nurse Practitioner

Deidre has dedicated her professional career to serving patients at a safety net hospital system in Massachusetts. She came to this work through a passion for social justice. Through decades of clinical experience in Primary care, HIV, Women's Health and with Health Care for the Homeless she has been inspired by her patients and the communities they represent, many of whom are immigrants from the global South. Since childhood, her love of people and the natural world has nurtured her spirit and forged a fierce determination to do the work of climate justice.

Registered Respiratory Therapist, Health Coach

"Joelle Hochman has served as a Registered Respiratory Therapist in Massachusetts for over a dozen years, in practice specialties ranging from critical care (ICU) to pulmonary rehabilitation, with patients ages birth to nonagenarians.

She currently sees patients via telehealth in private practice, working both one on one and in small groups. She specializes in patient education and lifestyle coaching for people living with pulmonary disease, and through aware listening, resource sharing and skill lessons, aims to increase self-management skills and improve control of their own lives. She centers her care around building personal connections with her patients, so that they feel they are no longer alone in their healing process.

Joelle raised a daughter who is a prominent youth climate activist/strategist with The Sunrise Movement. Inspired by her daughter’s passion and involvement in the movement, combined with her own understanding of the devastating effects of climate change on the health of all living things, Joelle has found a home in the cross section of healthcare clinicians who also care deeply about the climate crisis and are prepared to take action. When she’s not working or organizing, you will find Joelle snuggling with her dog Izzy, going for long walks, baking, snowshoeing or kayaking (depending on the New England weather), hula hooping, or dancing around her kitchen to music.

Nurse Practitioner

Priscilla Bolte is an Adult Nurse Practitioner who most recently completed a long career as an Associate Professor of Nursing at Roxbury Community College in Boston. There it was her privilege and joy to help empower diverse students, previously underrepresented in the U.S. nursing profession, to achieve their dream of becoming a nurse. Priscilla currently volunteers as an NP and Board member for the Worcester Free Care Collaborative. This coalition of free clinics provides quality medical services and insurance counseling to members of the local community who face significant barriers to accessing healthcare. She is also an enthusiastic supporter of several climate activist groups, including Our Climate and Mothers Out Front, assisting in projects that increase public awareness of the climate emergency with a focus on local and statewide legislative solutions. Priscilla is committed to forging a link between climate activism and the healthcare sector she serves.