Student Physicians for Social Responsibility Kick-off Meeting & Orientation

1. UPMC GREEN TEAM Student Physicians for Social ResponsibilityKick-off Meeting & Orientation

2. Kick-off Meeting & Orientation • Meeting Agenda • What is SPSR? • Student Physicians for Social Responsibility @ Pitt Med • 2011-2012 Events and Talks • SPSR Projects & Goals

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 • Longtermproject opportunities on reducing the environmental impact of healthcare

6. 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

7. 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

9. 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!!!

10. 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

11. 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.

12. 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!

13. 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 11thfl • 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

14. UPMC Green Team PresbyShadyside 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, 11thFl 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 PresbyShadyside “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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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.

19. 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

20. 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? • LongtermEffects 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

21. Contact Info • Daniel Van Roekel, vanroekel.daniel@medstudent.pitt.edu

22. Questions? Comments? • Please sign-in – SPSR needs it for SEC reimbursement. • Thanks for coming!