Ep117 | Climate Action in the Medical Field: Sustainability and Impact with Dr. Katie Lichter, MD MPH

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Dr. Katie Lichter, MD, MPH and the GreenHealth Lab are at the forefront of improving sustainability in the field of medicine. In this episode, she shares insight into the process of identifying her passion and galvanizing it towards action. We discuss leadership, life balance, and the GreenHealth Lab’s upcoming projects, including an exciting calculator for estimating the environmental impact of conferences and networking events. **Since recording, the calculator has been renamed Network Greener, and it can be found at https://networkgreener.com/.

Dr. Katie Lichter is currently a Radiation Oncology resident at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a Climate Energy Health Fellow with the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative, as well as a Harvard/Cambridge Health Alliance Climate Health Organizing Fellow and Editorial Fellow with the New England Journal of Medicine. Additionally, she is the Founder of the ARRO Climate Health, Equity, and Sustainability Task Force and the Principal Investigator of the GreenHealth Lab at UCSF. The GreenHealth Lab studies the interplay between healthcare delivery and climate change, exploring the impact of the healthcare system on the environment and the impact of climate change on patient care.

The GreenHealth Lab at UCSF: https://greenhealth.ucsf.edu/home

Episode produced by: Isabelle Tan, Episode recording date: 2/16/23

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