Time

Topic / Presentation Title

Speaker

8:15 a.m.

Registration, Networking and Snacks

8:45 – 9

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Edward A. Jones, President & CEO, Houston Methodist Research Institute

9:05 – 9:55

Keynote Speaker #1 Green ICU Team: Making It a Dream Team

Nicole Hunfeld, PhD, Erasmus MC ICU Pharmacist and Chief Sustainability Officer

10 – 10:55

Plenary Speaker

Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service

Chris Gormley, NHS Chief Sustainability Officer

11 – 11:55

Panel Discussion and Round Table Food is Medicine: Healing People, Healing the Planet

Moderator: Ryan Ramphul, PhD, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

• Rupa Mahadevan, MD, UT Physicians Pediatrics Primary Care; Assistant Professor, General Academic Pediatrics Culinary Medicine Instructor, School of Public Health at UTHealth Houston
• Renee Stubbins, PhD, RD, LD, CSO, Clinical Oncology Dietitian Educator; Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences in Medicine, Institute for Academic Medicine; Houston Methodist Hospital Faculty Fellow, Center for Health & Nature, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center
• Cath Conlon, CEO and Founder, Blackwood Education Land Institute
• Lisa Miller, Director of Strategic Partnerships,

Second Servings

Noon – 12:55 p.m.

Lunch & Art Showcase featuring Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts and Medicine

1 – 1:55

Keynote Speaker #2

Do No Harm: Healthcare, Sustainability and the Power of Action

Amy Collins, MD, Medical Director for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth

2 – 2:55

Session #1

Health for All: Designing Healthier Futures for Everyone

Eric Corey Freed, AIA, LEED Fellow, EcoDistricts AP, LFA, ActiveScore AP, Principal, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign

3 – 3:20

Afternoon Break & Networking

3:25 – 3:55

Wild & Scenic Film Festival Showcase: Wild About Houston

This session is not CE accredited.

Steve Stelzer, Vice President, Citizens Environmental Coalition

4 – 4:15

Closing Remarks

Faisal Masud, MD, FCCP, FCCM, Chairman, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Mary A. and M. Samuel Daffin, Sr. Centennial Chair, Founding Medical Director, Center for Critical Care, System Medical Director of Sustainability, Houston Methodist Hospital

4:15

Reception

Time

Topic / Presentation Title

Speaker

8:30 a.m.

Registration, Networking and Breakfast

9 – 9:20

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Arica A. Brandford, PhD, JD, RN, CHW

Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement, Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center; Assistant Research Professor of Community Engagement Science in Medicine, Dorothy and Mickey Ables Community Outreach and Engagement Distinguished New Century Chair, Houston Methodist Academic Institute,

Houston Methodist Research Institute

9:25 – 10

Session #1

Environmental Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease

Sadeer Al-Kindi, MD

Houston Methodist Cardiology; Medical Director for the Center for Health & Nature and Office of Sustainability

10:05 – 10:50

Session #2

Removing PFAS Permanently From the Environment

Brought to you by the Houston Methodist Research Institute Sustainability Committee

Michael S. Wong, PhD

Tina and Sunit Patel Professor in Molecular Nanotechnology, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University

10:55 – 11:30

Session #3

Air Pollution: A Potentially Preventable Cause of Dementia

Gustavo C. Roman, MD, DrHC

The Jack S. Blanton Presidential Distinguished Chair for the Study of Neurological Disease, Professor of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, Houston Methodist Neurological Institute

11:30 – 11:50

Abstract Winner Presentation

Adel Khan, MBBS, and Farzan Sasangohar, PhD

11:55 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.

Lunch & Art Showcase featuring Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts and Medicine

12:45 – 1:30

Session #4

Hook, Line and Sinker: Examining the Other Half of Health Among Waterfront Communities

Brought to you by the Houston Methodist Research Institute Sustainability Committee

Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD, Associate Professor & Deputy Center Director, UTHealth School of Public Health

1:35 – 2:30

Houston Methodist Wellness Activity

This session is not CE accredited.

Amanda Beaver, MS, RD, LD, ACE-CPT Alexis Shorts, MPH, CHES

2:35 – 3:10

Session #5

A Cancer Exposomic Framework to Measure and Ameliorate Cancer Burden in High-Risk Populations

Jennifer Cullen, PhD, MPH, Houston Methodist Academic Institute Professor of Medicine, Associate Director,

Cancer Control and Population Science

3:15 – 4

Panel Discussion

Community Voices Enacting Change: Advancing Health and Sustainability Moderator: Luz Maria Garcini, PhD., MPH, Director of Community and Public Health, Kinder Institute; Associate Professor, Rice University, Department of Psychological Sciences. Brought to you by the Houston Methodist Research Institute Sustainability Committee

• Stephanie Piper, PhD, Board Member, Citizen’s Environmental Coalition; Director of Texas Community Resilience,

American Forests

• Inyang Uwak, MD, MPH, DrPH, Research & Policy Director, Air Alliance Houston
• Maria Hernandez, Founder and Executive Director, Madres Del Parque
• Tommy Garcia Pratts, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Small Places
• Telesha Wells, CHW, CHW-I, Public Health Consultant

3:45 – 4:30

Plenary Speaker & Panel Discussion Speaker and Moderator:

Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH Inaugural Director, Houston Methodist Safety, Quality & Well-Being Institute

• Jason Fischer, MBA, Director, Office of Sustainability, Houston Methodist
• Laura M. Blackburn, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, FCCM, Pharmacy Administrative Specialist, Drug Information and Formulary Management, Houston Methodist
• Daniel P. Mahoney, MD, FAAP, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Inpatient Medical Director, Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT); Director, Medical Humanities Program Co-Chair, Texas Children’s Hospital Green Team