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Climate Change and Health

November 4, 2011
Chicago, Illinois

Time: 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Location: Northwestern's Lurie Building, 303 E. Superior

Chicago PSR is collaborating with the AMA, the ISMS, and the Harvard School of Public Health to bring a CME conference on climate change and public health to Chicago on November 4th.

The conference includes a lecture on climate change and public health by Aaron Bernstein M.D., M.P.H. Aaron Bernstein is the Acting Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric hospitalist at Children's Hospital. 

The conference also includes a lecture on the science of climate change by Yarrow Axford PhD. Yarrow Axford teaches and conducts research in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University.  

Chicago PSR Board Member Dr. Peter Orris and Executive Director, Dr. Sarah Lovinger, and Dr. Cortland Lohff, Medical Director of Environmental Health of the Chicago Department of Public Health, will comprise the reactor panel following the lectures.

Will you join us for a free evening with talks given by 2 climate change experts, a panel discussion featuring Chicago PSR board members, and a chance to meet like-minded health care professionals at a pre-CME reception?

This CME conference takes place at Northwestern's Lurie Cancer Center from 5-7:30 PM on November 4.  This event is free, but please send an e-mail to katiegilfillan@isms.org to register for the conference. 

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