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Upcoming Webinar: 

Healthcare LCAs: 

Data, Action, Controversies, and Direction

Image: Medical waste. Image source: Dr. Cassandra Thiel

Date: July 18, 2024

Time: 1:00-2:00pm EST

Presenter: Dr. Cassandra Thiel

Description: 

Healthcare globally emits nearly 5% of GHGs annually and consumes 10% of extracted materials. This critical sector is really starting to embrace LCAs and climate action. Our brown bag lecture today 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.

Presenter Bio: 

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).

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