Tell President Obama to abolish the Nuclear Loan Guarantee Program.
As a human being and physician I am deeply drawn to PSR's mission to "protect human life from the greatest threats to health and survival." Being active in PSR greatly strengthens my determination to help preserve the web of life that sustains us all, and which is severely threatened by nuclear weapons and rampant militarism, toxic pollution and global warming.
Biographical Sketch
Robert M. Gould, MD graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and has worked as a Pathologist in San Jose since 1981. Since 1989, he has been President of the SF-Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and in 2003 was President of National PSR. Since 1986, Dr. Gould has been a leading member of the Peace Caucus of the American Public Health Association, for which he is current Chairperson, and in 2009 APHA awarded Dr. Gould the prestigious Sidel-Levy Peace Award. Dr. Gould has been recognized as a leading expert on the environmental and public health impacts of nuclear weapons, and has been a contributing author to chapters on health impacts of nuclear weapons and nuclear terrorism in “War and Public Health” (2008) and “Terrorism and Public Health” (2002) published by Oxford University Press.
Since 1992 he has been a leading member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association (CMA), and through this work has authored and submitted numerous resolutions adopted by CMA as policy--including resolutions calling for preventing dioxin waste from medical facilities, preventing human exposure to mercury, reducing the use of pesticides, protecting farmworkers from toxic pesticide exposures, replacing medical devices containing phthalates (DEHP) from Neonatal Intensive Care Units, reducing air pollution, for binding reductions in global climate change-causing gases, for the abolition of all weapons of mass destruction, and for avoiding accidental nuclear war, etc. For his work within CMA, received the Santa Clara County Medical Association’s (SCCMA) "Outstanding Contribution in Community Service" award in 2001. Dr. Gould has also been listed as one of Santa Clara County's "Top 400 Physicians" in peer-review surveys published in San Jose Magazine in 2001 through 2007.
To request Dr. Gould as a speaker, please email psrnatl@psr.org or call 202-667-4260.
The 4th Annual NW Environmental Health Conference in Portland, Oregon
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The Physician Role in Efforts to Stop Global Warming. (Editorial) American Family Physician. In press, 2011.
The Role of Health Professionals in Protecting Environmental Health. In: The Praeger handbook of environmental health Friis RH, ed. Westport (Connecticut): Praeger Publishers. In press, 2011.
Co-author (with Patrice Sutton) of chapter Nuclear and Radiological Weapons, in Terrorism and Public Health (2nd edition). Oxford University Press. In press, 2011.
Protecting Generations at Risk: the Work of PSR and IPPNW, in 2008 Civilization and Peace. The Academy of Korean Studies, 2009.
Co-author (with Patrice Sutton) of chapter Nuclear Weapons in War and Public Health (2nd edition). Oxford University Press, 2008.
Co-author (with Patrice Sutton) of chapter Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism, in Terrorism and Public Health (1st edition). Oxford University Press, 2002.
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