2024 Interim Meeting Ethics Forum — Health Care's Carbon Footprint: Exploring the Health Care Sector’s Impact on Climate Change
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EST – Virtual Live Webinar
Wynne Armand, MD
Associate Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for the Environment and Health
Co-Director, Primary Care Office InSite, Mass General Brigham
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Primary Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital Chelsea HealthCare Center
Distinguished Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Wynne Armand, MD, practices primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Chelsea HealthCare Center, where she provides comprehensive preventive care, chronic disease management and urgent care to adult patients in a diverse, urban setting.
She is a Distinguished Physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at MGH, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and contributing editor at Harvard Health Publications.
Dr. Armand co-directs Primary Care Office Insite (PCOI), a resource hub that supports high-quality, evidence-based delivery of primary care across Mass General Brigham through knowledge-sharing, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and integration of local information.
Dr. Armand is an associate director at the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health, whose mission is to integrate sustainability into hospital operations, education, and research, and to advocate for policies that support a healthy environment for everyone.
She received her medical degree from University of California San Francisco (UCSF), completed her internal medicine residency at UCSF in a primary care program based at San Francisco General Hospital, and is board certified in Internal Medicine.
Andrew Hantel, MD
Faculty, Divisions of Leukemia and Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Andrew Hantel, MD, is a faculty member in the Divisions of Leukemia and Population Sciences at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, and he is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
He received his MD from Loyola University Chicago; trained in internal medicine, adult hematology/oncology, and medical ethics at the University of Chicago and in population sciences at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Dr. Hantel’s clinical
care focuses on patients with leukemia and related blood cancers; he also serves as a hospital ethics consultant. His research program leverages health services and care delivery methods to address ethical dilemmas in cancer discovery and delivery,
for which he receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health, American Society for Clinical Oncology, American Cancer Society, and Greenwall Foundation. Dr. Hantel’s current work focuses on cancer health equity in the contexts of
research participation, artificial intelligence, and climate change.
Rachel Oblath, PhD
Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Director of Research Methodology, Boston Medical Center Department of Psychiatry
Rachel Oblath, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the Director of Research Methodology in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. Her research focuses on the provision of
psychiatric emergency services in vulnerable communities. She also focuses on using electronic health records to examine the association between climate change and mental health. In addition, she has ongoing collaborations with Boston Police Department,
Boston Emergency Medical Services, and the Boston Municipal Court System focused on increasing access to psychiatric services and decriminalizing mental health.
