Climate Collaborative Members 2021-2023
Steering Committee
Victor Dzau, MD, Co-Chair | National Academy of Medicine
Rachel L. Levine, MD, Co-Chair | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
George Barrett, MBA, Co-Chair | Cardinal Health (former)
Andrew Witty, Co-Chair | UnitedHealth Group
Aaron “Ari” Bernstein, MD, MPH | National Center of Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Don Berwick, MD, MPP | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Colin Cave, MD | Kaiser Permanente
Bechara Choucair, MD | Kaiser Permanente
Gary Cohen | Health Care Without Harm
Chester “Chip” Davis, Jr., JD | The Healthcare Distribution Alliance
Elizabeth “Liz” Fowler, JD, PhD | Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH | American Medical Association
Michelle Hood, MHA | American Hospital Association
Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN | National League for Nursing
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PHD | The Joint Commission
Nazneen Rahman, MD, PhD | AstraZeneca and Sustainable Medicines Partnership
David Skorton, MD | Association of American Medical Colleges
Greg Smith | Medtronic
Walt Vernon, MBA, JD, LLM | Mazzetti and Sextant Foundation
Working Groups
Health Care Supply Chain and Infrastructure
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.
Chester “Chip” Davis, Jr., JD, Working Group Co-Lead | Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA)
Nazneen Rahman, MD, PhD, Working Group Co-Lead | AstraZeneca and Sustainable Medicines Partnership
Greg Smith, Working Group Co-Lead | Medtronic
Kara Brooks, MS | American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE)/American Hospital Association
Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, JD, MD & Matt DeFina, MPH | Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Matthew J. Eckelman, PhD | Northeastern University
Conrad Emmerich | Advocate Health
Jennifer Ervin, MBA | The Resource Group
Paulette Frank & Philip Dahlin | Johnson & Johnson
Elizabeth Gallenagh, JD & Nicolette Louissaint, MBA, PhD | Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA)
Cristina Indiveri, MS | Vizient
Thomas Kaufman | United Therapeutics Corporation
Maureen Kocisko | GlaxoSmithKline
Robert ter Kuile | McKesson Corporation
Susan Lorenz-Fisher | AmerisourceBergen
Kim Makurat | Medtronic
Megan Maltenfort |Cardinal Health
Allison Neale, MPP & Margaret Watt | Henry Schein, Inc.
Paul G. Parker & Meron Mathias | Thermo Fisher Scientific
Abby Pratt | Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed)
Terri Scannell, MBA | OhioHealth
Dan Scher, MBA | Medxcel
Mike Schiller | Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM)
Lewis “Lou” Von Thaer & Mike Janus | Battelle
Health Professional Education and Communication
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
Raymond Baxter, MBA, PhD | BCBS Foundation of California (former) and The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, NASEM
Georges Benjamin, MD | American Public Health Association
Karly Hampshire | Planetary Health Report Card and UC San Francisco
Cheryl Holder, MD | Florida International University and Florida Clinicians for Climate Action (former)
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
Steven L. Kanter, MD | Association of Academic Health Centers International
Jay Lemery, MD | University of Colorado
Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD | George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication
Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP | Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teddie Potter, PhD, MS | University of Minnesota School of Nursing
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
Erika Strickler | University of California, Irvine
Alison Whelan, MD | Association of American Medical Colleges
Health Care Delivery
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)
Terry Duffina, MBA | Stanford Health Care
Lee Fleisher, MD & Lauren Oviatt | Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Kathy Gerwig, MBA | Health Care Without Harm
Mark Howell, JD | American Hospital Association
Cristina Indiveri, MS | Vizient
Kedar Mate, MD & Bhargavi Sampath, MPH | Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Robert McLean, MD | Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Northeast Medical Group of Yale New Haven Health
David Meyers, MD & Brent Sandmeyer, MPH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Kathy Regan, RPh, JD | The Commonwealth Fund
Terri Scannell, MBA | OhioHealth
Elizabeth “Beth” Schenk | Providence St. Joseph Health
Steven D. Shapiro, MD | 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 | Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine
Jeff Thompson, MD | Gundersen Health System (former)
Walt Vernon, MBA, JD, LLM | Mazzetti and Sextant Foundation
John Vu, MPH | Kaiser Permanente
Policy, Financing, and Metrics
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
George Barrett, MBA | Cardinal Health (former)
Eric Berzon | Kaiser Permanente (former)
Stuart Block & Rebecca Meyers | Cardinal Health
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 | HCA
Matthew J. Eckelman, PhD | Northeastern University
Kathy Gerwig, MBA & Antonia Herzog | Health Care Without Harm
Michelle Hood, MHA & Mark Howell, JD | American Hospital Association
Cristina Indiveri, MS | Vizient
Nicolette Louissaint, MBA, PhD | Healthcare Distribution Alliance
Teddie Potter, PhD, MS | University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Abby Pratt | Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed)
Nazneen Rahman, MD, PhD | AstraZeneca and Sustainable Medicines Partnership
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 | Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine
Cecilia Sorensen, MD | Columbia University
Jeff Thompson, MD | Gundersen Health System (former)
Brian Tyler, PhD & Robert ter Kuile | McKesson Corporation
Jon Utech, MBA, MS | Cleveland Clinic
Walt Vernon, MBA, JD, LLM | Mazzetti and Sextant Foundation
The Action Collaborative serves as a neutral platform through which to facilitate dialog and discussion among representatives from multiple sectors around topics of mutual interest and concern. Individual participating members of the Climate Collaborative have disclosed any perceived or actual interests (financial, organizational, professional, or personal in nature) relevant to the activities of the Action Collaborative. Summaries of relevant interests reported can be found here.
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