Health Care Life Cycle Assessment

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Health Care Life Cycle Assessment

 

Healthcare globally emits nearly 5% of greenhouse gasses annually and consumes 10% of extracted materials. This critical sector is really starting to embrace LCAs and climate action. This lecture will focus on how clinicians are currently utilizing LCA studies and data, where controversies have emerged in this space, and future directions for LCA inspired by the needs of the healthcare sector.


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  • Date: 24 Oct 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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  • 2300 S Park St
  • Madison, Wisconsin
  • United States 53713
  • Building: The Village on Park Atrium
  • Room Number: Community Room off lobby
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  • Co-sponsored by Wisconsin Science Museum
  • Starts 25 September 2024 03:33 PM
  • Ends 24 October 2024 02:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
  • No Admission Charge

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Cassie Thiel of New York University and Clinically Sustainable Consulting LLC

Biography:

Dr. Cassandra Thiel is an Assistant Professor at New York University in the Grossman School of Medicine’s Departments of Population Health and Ophthalmology and the Tandon School of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Urban Engineering. She is also the president and CEO of Clinically Sustainable Consulting LLC. Her research utilizes life cycle assessment and principles of industrial ecology to analyze and improve the environmental performance of medical systems, hospital design, healthcare practice, and medical technologies. As a 2014-2015 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellow, Dr. Thiel calculated the environmental footprint of cataract surgery at Aravind Eye Care System in southern India, finding that Aravind’s carbon footprint for phacoemulsification was 5% of the same surgery done in the United Kingdom.  She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and BS from Michigan Technological University, both in Civil Engineering. Her graduate training was supported by the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation and an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT).

Address:Madison, Wisconsin, United States




Agenda

5:00 Sign in - Pizza will be provided.

5:15 Introductions

5:30 Presentation

6:15 Questions and Discussion

6:45 Adjourn