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Learn about sustainability and environmental best practices in this comprehensive discussion between Dr. Adam Striker and Dr. Jodi Sherman, Co-Chair of ASA’s Subcommittee on Environmental Health, who contributes a regular article to ASA Monitor on climate change. From an in-depth consideration of the scope of the problem, to how the specialty can be part of the solution, to the role of disposables, this lively conversation informs and motivates. Recorded March 2021.
Jodi Sherman, MD, is an associate professor of anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, associate professor of epidemiology in environmental health sciences, and faculty in the Yale Center for Climate Change and Health, in the Yale School of Public Health. She is the founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability and the Medical Director of the Yale-New Haven Health System Center for Sustainable Healthcare.
Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. Her work seeks to establish sustainability metrics, paired with health outcomes and costs, to help guide clinical decision-making and professional behaviors toward more ecologically sustainable practices to improve the quality, safety, and value of clinical care and to protect public health. Dr. Sherman routinely collaborates with environmental engineers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, health economists, health administrators, health professionals, and sustainability professionals.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is currently Chair of the ASA Committee on Communications, and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is an Associate Professor and serves as staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Kentucky Children’s Hospital as part of the Joint Congenital Heart Care Program. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.
