Climate Collaborative Members 2024-2025

The Health Care Supply Chain and Infrastructure Working Group is focused on identifying and advancing opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint of the health care supply chain and strengthening its resilience, as well as promoting sustainable innovation in services, product manufacturing, packaging, and distribution.

Robert ter Kuile, Working Group Co-Lead| McKesson Corporation
Megan Maltenfort, MEM, Working Group Co-Lead | Cardinal Health
Nazneen Rahman, MD, PhD, Working Group Co-Lead | AstraZeneca and Sustainable Medicines Partnership
Michael J. Alkire, MBA | Premier Inc.
Michael Boninger, MD | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
William “Bill” Brewer, MHA, MS | Advocate Health
Kara Brooks, MS | American Hospital Association
Robert Chase, MBA| NewGen Surgical  
Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, JD, MD & Matt DeFina, MPH | Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Deborah Donovan, MBA | Moderna 
Matthew J. Eckelman, PhD | Northeastern University
Robert Ellsworth, MBA & Kim Makurat | Medtronic
Paulette Frank & Philip Dahlin | Johnson & Johnson
Cristina Indiveri, MS | Vizient
Thomas “Tom” Kalla, MBA | The Resource Group
Nicolette Louissaint, MBA, PhD | Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA)
Erol Odabasi, MBA | Stryker
Jaclyn Prazenica Bridge, MS | AmerisourceBergen
Terri Scannell, MBA | OhioHealth
Mike Schiller | Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM)
Jennifer Siler, MBA | GlaxoSmithKline
Margaret Watt | Henry Schein, Inc.

The Health Professional Education and Communication Working Group is focused on empowering health workers and learners to better advocate for decarbonizing health care through education and communication that emphasize the health and equity benefits of climate actions.

Aaron “Ari” Bernstein,MD, MPH, Working Group Co-Lead | National Center of Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, Working Group Co-Lead | National League for Nursing
David Skorton, MD, Working Group Co-Lead | Association of American Medical Colleges
Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH | Harvard Chan C-CHANGE 
Raymond Baxter, MBA, PhD | BCBS Foundation of California (former) and The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, NASEM
Georges Benjamin, MD | American Public Health Association
Douglas Fritz, MD | Medical Students for a Sustainable Future 
Karly Hampshire | Planetary Health Report Card and UC San Francisco
Andrew Hoffman, MBA | American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges
Cheryl Holder, MD | Florida Clinicians for Climate Action and Green Family Foundation
Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN | Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Alisahah Jackson, MD | CommonSpirit
Shaneeta Johnson, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS, ABOM | Morehouse School of Medicine, Satcher Health Leadership Institute, and National Medical Association
Jay Lemery, MD | University of Colorado
Christopher Lemon, MD | John Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health
Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD | George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication 
Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP | Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Divya Natesan | Planetary Health Report Card
Allison Neale, MPP | Henry Schein Inc.
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teddie Potter, PhD, MS | University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Todd Sack, MD | Physicians for Social Responsibility
Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS | Harvard Chan C-CHANGE, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
Mona Sarfaty, MD, MPH, FAAFP | Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health 
Natasha Sood, MPH | Medical Students for a Sustainable Future
Cecilia Sorensen, MD | Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University
Meighen Speiser | ecoAmerica
Arianne Teherani, PhD & Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA | UC Center for Climate, Health, & Equity
Neelu Tummala, MD | NYU School of Medicine
Alison Whelan, MD | Association of American Medical Colleges
Nse Obot Witherspoon, MPH | Children’s Environmental Health Network

The Health Care Delivery Working Group is focused on scaling sustainable, quality, and equitable health care operations and practices, including reducing the carbon footprint of health care delivery organizations and unnecessary health care services.

Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, Working Group Co-Lead | American Medical Association
Colin Cave, MD, Working Group Co-Lead | Kaiser Permanente
Michelle Hood, MHA, Working Group Co-Lead  | American Hospital Association
Claire Brindis, DrPh | University of California, San Francisco
Doris Browne, MD, MPH | National Medical Association (former)
Omer Cabuk | NYC Health + Hospitals
David Callaway, MD | Atrium Health
Noe Copley-Woods, MD | UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 
T. Anthony Denton  | University of Michigan Health System
Terry Duffina, MBA | Stanford Health Care
Kathy Gerwig, MBA | Health Care Without Harm
Michael L. Good, MD | University of Utah Health
Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH | UW Medicine
Cristina Indiveri, MS | Vizient
William T. Mallon, EdD | AAMC 
Kedar Mate, MD & Bhargavi Sampath, MPH | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Hakon Mattson | Elevance Health  
Robert McLean, MD | Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Northeast Medical Group of Yale New Haven Health
E. Benjamin Money, MPH | National Association of Community Health Centers 
Beatrice Murage, MB ChB, MBA, MBD | Philips
Lauren Oviatt | Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Cam Patterson, MD, MBA | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 
Kathy Regan, RPh, JD | The Commonwealth Fund
Brent Sandmeyer, MPH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Terri Scannell, MBA | OhioHealth
Elizabeth “Beth” Schenk, PhD, RN, FAAN | Providence St. Joseph Health
Steven D. Shapiro, MD & Michele Kipke, PhD | Keck Medicine of USC
Jodi Sherman, MD | Yale University/Yale-New Haven Health System
Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH | America’s Essential Hospitals
Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Baylor College of Medicine
Jonathan Slutzman, MD | Mass General Brigham
Jeff Thompson, MD | Gundersen Health System (former)
Walt Vernon, MBA, JD, LLM | Mazzetti and Sextant Foundation
John Vu, MPH | Kaiser Permanente

The Policy, Financing, and Metrics Working Group is focused on identifying and advancing evidence-informed policies, regulations, metrics, financing, and payment structures to support and accelerate health sector decarbonization and resilience.

Don Berwick, MD, MPP, Working Group Co-Lead | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Elizabeth “Liz” Fowler, JD, Working Group Co-Lead | Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, Working Group Co-Lead | The Joint Commission
Alexis Ahlstrom, MPH | UnitedHealth Group
Chip Amoe, JD, MPA | University of Michigan Health System
George Barrett, MBA | Cardinal Health (former)
Eric Berzon | Kaiser Permanente (former)
David Blumenthal, MD, MPP | The Commonwealth Fund (former)
Claire Brindis, DrPh | University of California, San Francisco
Doris Browne, MD, MPH | National Medical Association (former)
Christopher Chen, MD, MBA | Washington State Health Care Authority
Cecilia DeLoach Lynn, MBA, LEED AP | Advocate Health
Tim DiGiulio, MBA | Wells Fargo 
Matthew J. Eckelman, PhD | Northeastern University
Kathy Gerwig, MBA & Antonia Herzog | Health Care Without Harm
Michelle Hood, MHA & Kara Brooks, MS | American Hospital Association
Cristina Indiveri, MS | Vizient
Robert ter Kuile | McKesson Corporation
Nicolette Louissaint, MBA, PhD | Healthcare Distribution Alliance
Rich Merski, JD, MA | Philips
Teddie Potter, PhD, MS | University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Nazneen Rahman, MD, PhD | AstraZeneca and Sustainable Medicines Partnership
Rachelle Reyes Wenger, MA | CommonSpirit Health 
Mona Sarfaty, MD, MPH, FAAFP | Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health
Terri Scannell, MBA | OhioHealth
Jodi Sherman, MD | Yale University/Yale-New Haven Health System
Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Baylor College of Medicine
Cecilia Sorensen, MD | Columbia University
Jeff Thompson, MD | Gundersen Health System (former)
Jon Utech, MBA, MS | Cleveland Clinic
Walt Vernon, MBA, JD, LLM | Mazzetti and Sextant Foundation