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GeriMedRisk - Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Rounds

GeriMedRisk offers free monthly webcast accredited educational rounds on topics related to safe prescribing for older adults. For more information please join our mailing list. Registration is required to attend.


 

GeriMedRisk April Rounds 

April 9, 2024  | 12:00-1:00 PM EST
 
Opportunities for sustainable practices in healthcare
Presenters: Jessica Nowlan, Myles Sergeant, Ivy Lam

 

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss why environmental sustainability is important for healthcare and describe actions healthcare providers can take to provide high quality, low carbon, climate resilient care.

Presenters:

Jessica Nowlan

Jessica Nowlan is the Innovation Lead for Atlantic Canada with CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis), working out of the Healthy Populations Institute at Dalhousie University. Her portfolio includes greenhouse gas emissions measurement in healthcare and sustainable primary and community care. Jessica has over 10 years of experience working in health services research and has worked with funders, researchers, patients, and health care providers to build and support innovations in the health system throughout her career. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Allison University and a Master of Information from the University of Toronto.

 

Dr. Myles Sergeant

Dr. Myles Sergeant is a family physician who has worked with vulnerable populations, including people experiencing homelessness and/or addictions, and the elderly, over the past 25 years. Recognizing the intersection between environmental issues and health, he is dedicated to addressing climate change issues and has co- founded Partnerships for Environmental Action by Clinicians and Communities for Health care facilities (www.peachhealthontario.com), the charity Trees for Hamilton in 2012 (www.treesforhamilton.ca), and the not-for-profit Shelter Health Network in 2005 (www.shelterhealthnetwork.ca). He is now the executive director of the Canadian Coalition for Green Healthcare.

 

Ivy Lam

Ivy is the Pharmacy Innovation Lead CASCADES Canada, leading climate conscious inhaler prescribing and climate resilient, low carbon sustainable pharmacy practice. She gathered over a decade of experience in perioperative care at Unity Health Toronto before developing the pharmacist role in the Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Centre at St. Michael's Hospital. As a co-lead in partnerships at the Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment and as part of the Environmental sustainability Advisory Committee at Unity Health Toronto, she is a part of initiatives that bridge the gap between healthcare and ecological preservation.

 

Missing April 9th Rounds?

Please note that we are hosting an additional webinar session on April 24th at 7:00 PM that will broadcast a recording of Jessica Nowlan, Myles Sergeant, and Ivy Lam's presentation "Opportunities for sustainable practices in healthcare" This session will not be interactive.

 

Replay session: April 24th at 7 pm EST

 

Click Here to Register for the Recorded Session
 

 

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Accreditation Statement:

GeriMedRisk- Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

 

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