January 12: Clinical Climate Change – Patients, Populations, and Providers and the Impacts of Global Warming

Saturday, January 12, 2019 –  New York Academy of Medicine

This full-day CME conference will offer 8.25 AMA PRA Category I Credits™ and connect physicians, nurses, frontline staff, and allied health professionals with up-to-date evidence-based information on the impact of climate change on the health of populations to inform patient treatment and care.

Agenda

Doors Open and Registration
7:15 AM
Welcome

Emily Senay, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

7:45 AM
Science and Ecology of Climate Change: Northeast Implications

Lewis H. Ziska, PhD

USDA-ARS

8:00 AM
8:40 AM
Exposomics: An Introduction and Its Role in Climate Change

Robert Wright, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Climate change is happening now, and its effects are expected to worsen over the next century. Climate change affects environmental and human health and is linked to higher rates of cardiovascular and respiratory disease, heat-related illness, allergies and asthma, increased prevalence of vector-borne and waterborne diseases, and poorer psychiatric outcomes. Clinicians and allied health professionals are on the front line of the human health consequences of climate change and will need substantive, evidence-based education to effectively recognize and manage impacts to protect and improve human health.

This symposium will address how changes in climate are impacting ecosystems and how that phenomenon is affecting human health. This symposium seeks to provide learners with an opportunity for exposure to up-to-date evidence-based information on climate change impacts on the health of populations in the Northeastern US, which additionally has implications for clinicians throughout the US.

Coffee and light breakfast will be served
9:20 AM
Baked Bacteria, Volatile Viruses, & Flooded Fungi: Infections Diseases in a Changing Climate

Saul Hymes, MD

Stony Brook University School of Medicine

10:00 AM
Coffee Break
10:20 AM
Heat, Vulnerable Populations, and Workforce Challenges

Ismail Nabeel, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11:00 AM
Case Study: The Emergent Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease

Roberto Lucchini, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11:20 AM
Pollen, Pollution, Asthma, and Allergies in Pediatric Care

Perry Sheffield, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:00 PM
Cardiovascular Disease and Climate Change

Allan Just, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emily Senay, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:40 PM
Luncheon Panel Discussion: Clinical Implications of Climate Change
Lunch will be served
1:30 PM
Climate Change and Psychiatry

Janet Lewis, MD

Climate Psychiatry Alliance

2:05 PM
Climate Disasters and Preparedness: Lessons from Sandy, Irene, Maria

George Loo, DrPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2:45 PM
Break
2:55 PM
Moderated Panel Discussion
Communicating About Climate Change: Patients, Stakeholders, and Ourselves

Janet Lewis, MD

Climate Psychiatry Alliance

Mona Sarfaty, MD, MPH, FAAP

Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, George Mason University

3:45 PM
Moderated Panel Discussion
Solutions: Energy Transformation, Food Systems, Action, and Advocacy

Mona Sarfaty, MD, MPH, FAAP

Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, George Mason University

4:45 PM
Closing Remarks

Emily Senay, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

8.25 AMA PRA Category I Credits™ will be offered for this evidence-based symposium.

Gaps addressed will include:

  • Recognition of how anthropogenic warming is affecting the ecology, eco-systems, air, water, climate, weather patterns with particular attention to Northeastern US impacts.

  • Recognition of the link between the burning of fossil fuels, global warming, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, extreme weather events and worsening human health outcomes through the lens of the exposome with attention to neurodevelopmental and cognitive impacts.

  • Explanation of the link between climate change and increases in heat-related morbidity and mortality; worsening cardiovascular and pulmonary disease outcomes; and increases in allergies and asthma.

  • Didactics on the clinical presentation of emerging pathogens linked to climate change with emphasis on Northeastern US water, food, and vector borne infectious diseases.

  • Recognition of the link between climate change mental health and psychiatric outcomes including clinical guidance to improve patient outcomes.

  • Explanation of essential components of emergency preparedness for health systems and clinical practices including guidance on patient and community education and advocacy.

  • Description of populations and communities most vulnerable to effects of climate change including unique challenges facing workforces.

  • Effective communication strategies to discuss climate change and human health to colleagues, superiors, patients, communities, and policy makers.

  • Overview of strategies for climate solutions, including an explanation of Project Drawdown and the health co-benefits of transitioning to plant-based diets, renewable energy sources, and active living design.

  • Brief training in effective advocacy on social justice and health equity for allied health professionals seeking to bring attention to climate related health outcomes.

Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Requirements and Policies of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) through the joint providership of the Westchester Academy of Medicine and the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Westchester Academy of Medicine is accredited by MSSNY to provide Continuing Medical Education for physicians.

The Westchester Academy of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category I Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Location

Clinical Climate Change will take place at the New York Academy of Medicine, at 1216 5th Ave, New York, NY (at the corner of 5th Ave and 103rd St).
For detailed directions to the New York Academy of Medicine, visit: nyam.org/about/visit

This conference was developed by the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, drawing upon a unique multidisciplinary research and clinical approach to addressing the challenges of climate change: Institute for Exposomic Research, Divisions of Environmental Health, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health, as well as clinical sections including the Pediatric Environmental Health Clinic, Region 2 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU), and Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health.

If you would like to sponsor this event, please email renu.nadkarni@mssm.edu.