APA SIG: Environmental Health, Climate Change, and Sustainability and PAS Climate Change Combined

Saturday, May 4, 2024

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 604

CE: Live CME: 1.5

SIG Chair(s)

Ruth Etzel, MD, PhD

Professor
School of Public Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
SJ

Sandra Jee, MD MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics and Center for Community Health and Prevention
Pediatrics
Golisano Children's Hospital at The University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York, United States
Shalini Shah, DO (she/her/hers)

Instructor of Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Disclosure(s):

Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Sandra H. Jee, MD MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Shalini H. Shah, DO: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session

Description: How do we integrate our growing understanding of the health impacts of climate change and environmental issues into our work and institutions? This workshop will explore how we can leverage quality improvement and implementation science methodology to advance environmental health initiatives across different pediatric disciplines, highlighting both primary care and specialist perspectives.

The session will begin with a primer on quality improvement and implementation science methodology (led by Corinna Rea and Kathleen Walsh) followed by examples of environmental QI projects that are showcased by project leaders. Primary care highlights include QI efforts to improve lead screening and management (Marissa Hauptman), reduce paper waste (Sandra Jee), and integrate climate-related anticipatory guidance into well-child visits (Shalini Shah). Highlighted subspecialties include emergency/integrative medicine (Shiu-Lin Tsai) sharing a hospital linen sustainability effort in the Columbia emergency department, infectious disease (Lucie Fan) with an antibiotic stewardship sustainability project at Emory, cardiology (Mary Mullen, Director of Pulmonary Hypertension at Boston Children’s) and hospital medicine (Lisa Patel, Stanford/Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health).

The remainder of our session will encourage discussion among participants on environment and climate-related health issues. Participants will share perspectives on QI project ideas/interventions relevant to their discipline and brainstorm strategies to facilitate implementation.

We invite trainees and participants to join us to connect with others who share interests in environmental health, sustainability, and climate change. Our goal is to learn from one another, sharing methods and resources to better incorporate environmental and climate perspectives at our respective institutions.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the basics of quality improvement and implementation science.
Apply quality improvement and implementation science methodologies to environmental health projects and initiatives.
Recognize how climate change and environmental justice topics can be integrated into research, education, and clinical practice.

Presentations:

2:00 PM – 2:05 PM ET

Introduction
Speaker: Ruth A. Etzel, MD, PhD – Milken Institute School of Public Health
2:05 PM – 2:15 PM ET

Principles of Quality Improvement
Speaker: Corinna Rea, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital
2:15 PM – 2:25 PM ET

Principles of Implementation Science
Speaker: Kathleen E. Walsh, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
2:25 PM – 2:35 PM ET

QI Project Highlight - Sustainability in the Emergency Department via Hospital Linen Management
Speaker: Shiu-Lin Tsai, MD (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
2:35 PM – 2:45 PM ET

A Specialist's Perspective - Cardiology & Climate
Speaker: Mary P. Mullen, MD, PHD – Boston Children's Hospital
2:45 PM – 2:55 PM ET

QI Project/Trainee Highlight - Sustainability via Antibiotic Stewardship in an Infectious Disease Program
Speaker: Lucie K. Fan, MD (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine
2:55 PM – 3:05 PM ET

QI Project Highlight - Improving Lead Screening and Management in Primary Care
Speaker: Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Boston
3:05 PM – 3:15 PM ET

QI Project Highlight - Waste Reduction via QR Codes for Vaccine Information Sheets in Primary Care
Speaker: Sandra H. Jee, MD MPH (she/her/hers) – Golisano Children's Hospital at The University of Rochester Medical Center
3:15 PM – 3:25 PM ET

QI Project Highlight - Increasing Climate Counseling in Primary Care Visits (approved by ABP for MOC4 credit)
Speaker: Shalini H. Shah, DO (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
3:25 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Bringing it all Together - Hospital Medicine/Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health (MSCCH)
Speaker: Lisa Patel, MD, MESc (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine