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Climate change’s threats to human health and life are growing. Will you join our latest effort to roll back climate change?
Lynn Ringenberg, MD, FAAP
Tampa, Florida
Speaker Topic: Clean Air, Climate Change, Coal
Medical Specialty: Pediatrics
PSR Affiliation: President, PSR Tampa Bay; member, National Board
School Affiliation: Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of South Florida (USF)
Areas of Expertise:
Children’s health, primarily underserved
Media Experience: Radio Writing (editorials, op-eds) Public Speaking
Why PSR?
PSR is the only organization of professionals that puts peoples health as a priority along with that of the planet.
Biographical Sketch
Dr.
Ringenberg is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South
Florida in Tampa. Her academic career spanned 20 years at USF with 13 years in
private practice. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of
Nebraska, Graduate studies in Biochemistry at the University of Maryland,
Medical School at the University of Nebraska and residency training in
pediatrics at the University of Florida, Gainesville and Bowman Gray in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She received a Master’s Degree in Strategic
Studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 2001 and retired
from the Army in 2003 in the rank of colonel. Dr. Ringenberg’s interests and
passions lie in medical education and underserved healthcare. She co-founded
Physician’s for Social Responsibility (PSR) Tampa Bay with Dr. Don Mellman in
2008.
To request Dr. Ringenberg as a speaker, please email psrnatl@psr.org or call 202-667-4260.
In the Spotlight
Conference: Climate Smart Southwest
Build new and fortify existing cross-cultural, community, and governmental partnerships to educate and engage community action to address the anticipated public health impacts of climate change in the Southwest, September 20-21 in Tucson.
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Publications:
Dr. Lynn Ringenberg, Pull plug on Crystal River plant, St. Petersburg Times. July 25, 2011.
Drs. Ira Helfand, Lynn Ringenberg, and Donald Mellman, A new START for the world, Tampa Tribune. April 8, 2010.