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Student Physicians for Social Responsibility

Kick-off Meeting & Orientation

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+Kick-off Meeting & Orientation

Meeting Agenda What is SPSR? Student Physicians for Social Responsibility

@ Pitt Med 2011-2012 Events and Talks SPSR Projects & Goals

+Physicians for Social Responsibility Hx Pitt Med SPSR is the local student chapter of PSR

Prevent what we cannot cure Physicians for Social Responsibility – http://www.psr.org

1961: PSR founded Sidel VW, Geiger HJ, Lown B. “The medical consequences of

thermonuclear war.” NEJM 1962.

1985: PSR shares the Nobel Peace Prize with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1992: PSR expands its mission to include environmental health

Mission Statement: PSR is the medical and public health voice working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and the toxic degradation of the environment.

PSR Resources for Clinicians

+Student Physicians for Social Responsibility

Prevent what we cannot cure Educate, Inspire, and Advocate for:

Safe, Renewable Energy Healthy Food Systems Sustainability in Healthcare Environmental Justice

Global Warming Coal & Climate Air Pollution Environmental Health Policy Institute Confronting Toxins

Social Justice Poverty Violence

+SPSR @ Pitt Med

Environment & Sustainability in Health Care UPMC Green Team Magee Environmental Initiatives Mapping Mortality: Air Pollution

Healthy Food Systems Grow Pittsburgh Food, Inc Magee Rooftop Garden

Social Justice Goods for Guns Women’s Shelter Clothing and Cellphone Drive Preventative Medicine in Healthcare Complete Streets

Longterm project opportunities on reducing the environmental impact of healthcare

+2011-2012 Events Grow Pittsburgh/Braddock Farms tour

September 23

UPMC Magee tour – Environmental Initiatives September 30

Mapping Mortality – PGH Post-Gazette environmental health series presentation October 28

Food, Inc. film screening November

Goods for Guns – gun buy back day December

UPMC Green Team January

Dr. Noe Copley-Woods: Sustainability in Healthcare @ UPMC February

Healthcare Reform Panel: Preventative Health Practices March

Complete Streets April

Women’s Shelter Clothing and Cellphone Drive May

+Grow Pittsburgh/Braddock FarmsSeptember 23 Our vision: Grow Pittsburgh envisions the day when growing and

eating healthy, local food is commonplace. Our mission: To demonstrate, teach and promote responsible

urban food production.

We are committed to: Growing Food

increasing the amount of affordable healthy food in the Pittsburgh region increasing the amount of land dedicated to sustainable food production increasing food security in low income communities involving school children in the production of healthy food and teaching the

value of nutrition Growing Farmers

providing hands-on, experiential agriculture training to community residents building a professional network of support for the production, distribution, and

marketing of fresh, local produce promoting urban agriculture as an attractive, viable career option

Growing Community promoting awareness of fresh local food, nutrition and sustainable living involving community residents in the development of urban farm enterprises developing partnerships with community stakeholders and organizations promoting community empowerment and anti-racist philosophy in every project improving biodiversity and environmental quality of our neighborhoods

Growing Capacity developing projects that attract and maintain diverse interests creating a strong and economically sustainable organization providing technical assistance and support to other local farm initiatives maintaining a supportive environment for the local growing community

http://www.growpittsburgh.org/

+UPMC Magee TourSeptember 30

Leader in Environmental Initiatives within the UPMC kingdom

Greening milestones At Magee, we are advancing environmentally friendly and

sustainable operations throughout our hospital in many ways. Neonatal Intensive Care uses plastic materials that are DEHP- and

PVC-free Food service has replaced plastic and foam food and beverage

containers with biodegradable corn and paper products. Implementation of alcohol recycling in our labs We have extensive recycling programs in place for paper, plastic,

cardboard, batteries, fluorescent lights, medical, and hazardous waste.

Use of nontoxic cleaning products Remodeling of our antepartum and postpartum units using

sustainable and environmentally friendly materials. Purchase of new indoor air quality meter Instituted paperless meetings

Rooftop Garden!!!

+Mapping MortalityOctober 28

Don Hopey and David Templeton, journalists for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will talk about Mapping Mortality, their 6-part investigative series of the effects that environmental pollution has on the people of Southwestern PA. Pollution, Death Overlap Donora’s Smog Tragedy Gracie’s Story The Smoking Factor Power Plant Violations Cluster of Illness, Death Dangerous Dust Scientific Evidence

+Food, Inc. Film ScreeningNovember In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing

the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

+Goods for GunsDecember

SPSR will be volunteering at the Goods for Guns gun buy back day, where we will hand out Grocery Store gift certificates to people who have turned in guns.

Hang out with police officers while they tell you crazy stories!

+UPMC Green TeamJanuary

Allison Robinson will present the UPMC Green Team

UPMC Green Team, comprised of a representative body of hospital staff, sets goals, reviews, and measures our greening initiatives in coordination with UPMC’s systemwide Green Team. We are buying, building, and greening our operations from supply chain to waste management.

Get involved now by attending monthly UPMC Green Team meetings at Presbyterian and Shadyside – next one is September 20

Upcoming Events: Zero Waste Pittsburgh, noon, September 13 @ BST123

http://www.zerowastepgh.org/ Household Chemical Waste Collection, Pharmaceutical Collection, Hard to Recycle Collection

Vendors explain their Recycling Services, 10/5/11, 11am-1pm, Scaife 11th fl

Drug Take Back Day, 10/28/11, Falk & Hillman Pharmacies

Bike Friendly Employer Proposal In continued advancement of the alternative transportation initiative, development of

additional resources and recognition, survey will be reviewed at next PUH-SHY Green Team meeting

+UPMC Green TeamPresby Shadyside Lunch & Learn with Dave Mazza of the PRC on  “Zero Waste Pittsburgh”- Sept 13th

Registration is required by 9/8/11 so that we know how many attending for the catering order

Event date: 9/13/11, time: 12-1pm, location Biomedical Science Tower South Rm 123 Contact me to register

Green Team volunteers needed for Recycling Lunch & Learns at Presby and Shadyside Vendors coming to casually explain their recycling services provided Volunteers may help promote attendance, promote PUH-SHY Green Team initiatives, and

actually visit the tables Event dates:

SHY: 9/14/11, 11am-1pm, Cafeteria or West Wing café (tbd) PUH: 10/5/11, 11am-1pm, 11th Fl Cafeteria foyer

Contact Wm Smith, if interested   

Green Team volunteers needed for Presby Shadyside Drug Take Back Day – Oct. 28th

National Drug Take Back Day is 10/29/11 UPMC PUH-SHY will have a similar collection on 10/28/11 at its two retail pharmacies (Falk

and Hillman) Plans are currently under development

PUH-SHY Green Team may develop a flyer and pamphlet detailing publicly significant initiatives and distribute ata table

Presby Shadyside “Bike Friendly Employer” proposal In continued advancement of the alternative transportation initiative, development of

additional resources and recognition, survey will be reviewed at next PUH-SHY Green Team meeting

+Dr. Noe Woods-Copley Lunch TalkFebruary 2012 The Ecological Footprint of Magee Women’s Hospital:

A Trashy Talk What is the Environmental Impact of Healthcare? How much trash do we make? Where does it go? Is it necessary?

Noe Copley-Woods, MD Assistant Professor of ObGyn

Magee Women’s Hospital

+Healthcare Reform: Panel on Preventative MedicineMarch

5 speakers will each present an idea for improving preventative medicine within the framework of healthcare reform

Discussion to follow

http://www.noharm.org

http://www.acmp.org

+Complete StreetsApril

The streets of our cities and towns are an important part of the livability of our communities. They ought to be for everyone, whether young or old, motorist or bicyclist, walker or wheelchair user, bus rider or shopkeeper. But too many of our streets are designed only for speeding cars, or worse, creeping traffic jams.

Now, in communities across the country, a movement is growing to complete the streets. States, cities and towns are asking their planners and engineers to build road networks that are safer, more livable, and welcoming to everyone.

Instituting a complete streets policy ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.

http://www.completestreets.org

+Women’s Shelter Clothing & Cellphone DriveMay

Founded in 1974 by Ellen Berliner and Anne Steytler, Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh (WC&S) was one of the first six shelters in the United States for battered women. Since that time, WC&S has been at the forefront of the Battered Women's Movement, creating and implementing innovative and effective programming aimed at preventing domestic violence and providing services to domestic violence victims.

+Projects & Goals:

What do you want to do?

• Join the SPSR Steering Committee

• Join the UMPC Green Team

• Greening the medical school!

• Increase awareness and access to healthy food

• Create interdisciplinary connections with the Public Health School

• Learn about our collective ecological footprint

• Experiment in how to reduce healthcare waste

• Educate medical students and others

+Additional Events?

2012 Sustainable Healthcare Innovation Competition will occur between January 2012- March 2012

Previous Talk “What is the most neglected issue in the U.S. or world, and what will YOU do as a physician to address this?”s

Previous Earth Day Talks – organize one for this year? Longterm Effects of Childhood Lead Poisoning

Dr. Herb Needleman, Prof. of Child Psychiatry & Pediatrics Medicine and the Environment: First Do No Harm

Dr. Noe Woods, Asst Prof of Gynecologic Specialities Global Climate Change and Public Health

Dr. Bernstein

+Contact Info

Daniel Van Roekel, vanroekel.daniel@medstudent.pitt.edu

+Questions? Comments?

Please sign-in – SPSR needs it for SEC reimbursement.

Thanks for coming!