Dr. Marie Cabiya was born in Puerto Rico and has been living in Chicago since completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois in 2008. Since then, she has been an attending physician and Medical Director for the resident clinic at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. She is a member of IL Clinicians for Climate Action, a Physician Champion for the EPA funded Region V's Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit and formed part the Climate Advocacy Lab's Health Peer Learning Circle. She speaks locally and nationally to promote the health benefits of climate action in mitigating disparities and the active role of health providers in this crisis.

Grace Kistner is a board certified Critical Care Registered Nurse with experience in health care and promotion since 2007. Her passion for global health, sustainability, advocacy, justice, and empowerment drive her approach to Health-In-All-Policy. She is cross-sector credentialed and multi-degree awarded with education across four continents, and her leadership both spans local levels and reaches international agencies. Among her many endeavors, she addresses climate change in serving the Steering Committee for Illinois Clinicians for Climate Action, the Leadership Council for the California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice, is an active member of Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, and a 2024-2025 Reach the Decision Makers Fellow at the UCSF Environmental Research and Translation for Health Center.

With over 30 years of experience in healthcare, Heidi Woods has dedicated her career to enhancing mental health and well-being across various settings, including critical care and hospice. Holding dual master’s degrees in Counseling Psychology and Nursing, she currently works as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in an outpatient setting. A passionate climate advocate, Heidi is actively involved in initiatives addressing the intersection of climate change and mental health. As a Climate Ambassador and co-facilitator of the Midwest chapter of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, she/ works to promote awareness and action on climate-related mental health issues. Heidi is a member of several professional organizations, including the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, Illinois Clinicians for Climate Action, the Society of Nurses, Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders, the Medical Consortium on Climate and Health, and Sigma Theta Tau. She strives to integrate mental health practices with climate advocacy, fostering resilience and support for communities affected by climate disasters.

Dr. Howard Maunus was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1987. He completed his residency in internal medicine in 1990 and a fellowship in gastroenterology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania (now Drexel University College of Medicine) in 1993. In 2022, after a 29-year career in clinical gastroenterology, Dr. Maunus retired from his practice in Stuart, Florida. He then transitioned to a second career in healthcare sustainability and climate and health education. This new chapter began with his joining the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education and Carolina Advocates for Climate and Health Equity. Through his work on the education subgroup at the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCHE) at Columbia, Dr. Maunus successfully initiated a curriculum on climate and healthcare at his alma mater, Jefferson Medical College. He is excited to be part of the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship.

Dr. Gerri Cannon-Smith, a board-certified pediatrician (semi-retired) and public health consultant founded and leads Mississippi Health Professionals for Climate and Health Equity. This group promotes environmental sustainability strategies that offer health benefits. With over 30 years of experience in medicine and public health, Cannon-Smith has served as clinician, medical director, and medical consultant for specialty clinics, community health centers and the Mississippi State Department of Health as well as public health faculty. Her work in rural, suburban, and urban settings has focused on the impact of social determinants of health, health care access, and inequities at the intersection of pediatric health, health literacy, climate and environmental justice.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Howard University and medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Pediatric training was completed at Howard University Hospital and Loma Linda University Children’s Medical Center. Additionally, she holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Having served on local and national advisory boards and active in professional and community organizations, she is a Medical Society Consortium CHEF alumnus. Awards include the Alton B Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award and American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award.

Dr. Claire Gervais is Clinical Professor with the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She actively works with UW Health sustainability leadership on a number of environmental issues including climate change and health, reducing healthcare emissions, eliminating triclosan use, pesticide reduction policy, and workplace fragrance free policy. She helped found Healthy Climate Wisconsin in 2019, a group of health professionals whose mission is to advocate and educate about the impacts of climate change and health. She is also co-president of the Wisconsin Environmental Health Network, which focuses on reducing environmental toxins and climate change, and co-founded the Healthy Lawn Team, a non-profit organization which educates communities about the risks of lawn care pesticides.

Dr. Margie Chen is a retired ObGyn and Clinical Professor, emeritus, at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF. Since retirement, she has devoted her time to advocating for climate, health and equity. She is on the State Leadership team of Climate Health Now, which is the California state affiliate to the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. She also is the co-founder and co-lead of Voting4Climate&Health, which promotes civic engagement in healthcare spaces and aims to connect the dots between voting, climate and health of patients and communities. She served as chair of the 2024 Get Out the Vote subcommittee of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. She does this work so that her 5 grandchildren will have a healthy future on a life sustaining planet.

Cindy Haq, MD is Professor and Chair Emerita of Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. She has provided primary health care and strengthened medical education in rural and urban areas of the US, Pakistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, with the World Health Organization, and with governmental and non-governmental organizations. A champion for health equity, she cares for people on Catalina Island, for people who are homeless, and advocates with Climate Health Now. As mother and grandmother, she savors time with family, friends, and the natural world.

Brenda is a comprehensive ophthalmologist in Los Angeles. She started her climate advocacy journey through Climate Reality, and soon after found her climate and health home at Climate Health Now, the California state affiliate of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. She serves on the Statewide Leadership Team of Climate Health Now to help oversee the organization’s strategy and membership offerings. Brenda also serves on the Editorial Board of EyeSustain, a global coalition of eye societies, organizations, and ophthalmologists collaborating to make ophthalmic care and surgery more sustainable.

Shelley is a co-founder of Healthy Climate New Mexico and currently is the Executive Director, working to mobilize healthcare and public health professionals to advocate for equitable and just climate solutions in New Mexico. Shelley’s public health career has been focused on working collaboratively to tackle urgent, preventable public health threats: tobacco, alcohol and opioid misuse; violence, and now climate change. For two decades, Shelley served as the Prevention Coordinator of the Santa Fe Public Schools and Director of the Santa Fe Prevention Alliance. Before launching Healthy Climate New Mexico, she was the President of New Mexico Public Health Association. She has an undergraduate degree in Social Ecology and a master’s in public health from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Graziano is a family physician who spent her career in the Indian Health Service on the Navajo and Jicarilla Apache Nations where she gained an intense appreciation for the strength of her patients and the beauty of their landscapes. She served as an assistant professor of Family and Community Medicine at both the University of Arizona and Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine. In 2021, Dr. Graziano completed a course of study in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and currently teaches this discipline to the residents in the Saint Vincent Family Medicine residency program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Being passionate about social and environmental justice and the natural world, and recognizing the inextricable link between climate and health, Dr. Graziano is a founding board member of Healthy Climate New Mexico. She is a lover of the outdoors, time with friends and family, a moving read, and adventuring. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her amazing wife, Joan, and their impossibly brilliant blue heeler, Macy.

Paul Charlton is an Emergency Medicine physician based in Gallup, New Mexico, where he practices clinically with the Indian Health Service, serves as the IHS Chief Clinical Consultant for Emergency Medicine, and is a member of the IHS National Sustainability Committee. Paul is also a co-founder of Healthy Climate New Mexico, a member organization of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health that is actively focused on advocacy and policy engagement in New Mexico. He was part of the inaugural CU Diploma in Climate Medicine cohort, which helped both accelerate and refine his climate and health work within the IHS and on New Mexico policy issues. He has two young children and is a happy outdoor enthusiast whenever time permits.

Christine Dobbin was born and raised in the border town of El Paso, after which she moved further into Texas and obtained a B.A. in Kinesiology alongside research in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University. After initially entering the medical field and noting tremendous inequities rooted in systemic environmental injustice, she transitioned fully into public health. She is currently an MPH candidate at New Mexico State University and thrilled to be interning with Health Climate New Mexico!

Sara has over 20 years of experience delivering care across the lifespan, from prenatal and early Pediatric care to internal medicine, mental health, and everything in between. She has practiced in Washington, DC, Portland, and rural Oregon. Sara works in a rural Oregon healthcare system delivering full scope family medicine to all ages. She is an Assistant Professor at OHSU's School of Nursing and mentors doctorate students. At OHSU she's a member of an interdisciplinary task force that teaches about the effects of climate change on health. She's a member of the "Wombs & Wildfires" Task Force (a collaboration between Oregon-based "Nurturely" and "Human Rights Watch"). She is also a member of the Rural Midwifery Task Force, Nurse Practitioners of Oregon, and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Andrew serves as a primary care provider and the clinical lead at Orchid Health, a group who seeks to revolutionize rural health care in Oregon. Andrew completed much of his undergraduate work at The Ohio State University ultimately earning his Bachelor of Science from University of Western States in Portland, OR. He then went on to receive his Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies at Pacific University. After several years in practice he went back to school in 2023 to earn his Master of Health Care Delivery Science at Dartmouth College.

Laura in a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon. She has an MS in Clinical psychology with background in community mental health. She currently works in integrated behavioral health and private practice.