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UPMC
GREEN
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Student Physicians for Social Responsibility
Kick-off Meeting & Orientation
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Kick-off Meeting & Orientation
Meeting
 What
Agenda
is SPSR?
 Student Physicians for Social Responsibility @
Pitt Med
 2011-2012 Events and Talks
 SPSR Projects & Goals
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Physicians for Social Responsibility Hx
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Pitt Med SPSR is the local student chapter of PSR
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Prevent what we cannot cure
Physicians for Social Responsibility – http://www.psr.org
1961: PSR founded
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Sidel VW, Geiger HJ, Lown B. “The medical consequences of
thermonuclear war.” NEJM 1962.
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1985: PSR shares the Nobel Peace Prize with International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
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1992: PSR expands its mission to include environmental health
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Mission Statement: PSR is the medical and public health voice
working to prevent the use or spread of nuclear weapons and to
slow, stop and reverse global warming and the toxic degradation of
the environment.
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PSR Resources for Clinicians
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Prevent what we cannot cure
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Educate, Inspire, and Advocate for:
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Safe, Renewable Energy
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Healthy Food Systems
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Sustainability in Healthcare
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Environmental Justice
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Global Warming
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Coal & Climate
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Air Pollution
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Environmental Health Policy Institute
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Confronting Toxins
Social Justice
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Poverty
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Violence
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Environment & Sustainability in Health Care
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Healthy Food Systems
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Grow Pittsburgh
Food, Inc
Magee Rooftop Garden
Social Justice
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UPMC Green Team
Magee Environmental Initiatives
Mapping Mortality: Air Pollution
Goods for Guns
Women’s Shelter Clothing and Cellphone Drive
Preventative Medicine in Healthcare
Complete Streets
Longterm project opportunities on reducing the environmental
impact of healthcare
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2011-2012 Events
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Grow Pittsburgh/Braddock Farms tour
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UPMC Magee tour – Environmental Initiatives
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March
Complete Streets
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February
Healthcare Reform Panel: Preventative Health Practices
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January
Dr. Noe Copley-Woods: Sustainability in Healthcare @ UPMC
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December
UPMC Green Team
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November
Goods for Guns – gun buy back day
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October 28
Food, Inc. film screening
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September 30
Mapping Mortality – PGH Post-Gazette environmental health series presentation
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September 23
April
Women’s Shelter Clothing and Cellphone Drive
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May
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Grow Pittsburgh/Braddock Farms
September 23
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Our vision: Grow Pittsburgh envisions the day when growing and
eating healthy, local food is commonplace.
 Our mission: To demonstrate, teach and promote responsible
urban food production.
We are committed to:
 Growing Food
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Growing Farmers
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providing hands-on, experiential agriculture training to community residents
building a professional network of support for the production, distribution, and
marketing of fresh, local produce
promoting urban agriculture as an attractive, viable career option
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promoting awareness of fresh local food, nutrition and sustainable living
involving community residents in the development of urban farm enterprises
developing partnerships with community stakeholders and organizations
promoting community empowerment and anti-racist philosophy in every project
improving biodiversity and environmental quality of our neighborhoods
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developing projects that attract and maintain diverse interests
creating a strong and economically sustainable organization
providing technical assistance and support to other local farm initiatives
maintaining a supportive environment for the local growing community
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increasing the amount of affordable healthy food in the Pittsburgh region
increasing the amount of land dedicated to sustainable food production
increasing food security in low income communities
involving school children in the production of healthy food and teaching the
value of nutrition
Growing Community
Growing Capacity
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UPMC Magee Tour
September 30
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Leader in Environmental Initiatives within the UPMC kingdom
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Greening milestones
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At Magee, we are advancing environmentally friendly and sustainable
operations throughout our hospital in many ways.
Neonatal Intensive Care uses plastic materials that are DEHP- and
PVC-free
Food service has replaced plastic and foam food and beverage
containers with biodegradable corn and paper products.
Implementation of alcohol recycling in our labs
We have extensive recycling programs in place for paper, plastic,
cardboard, batteries, fluorescent lights, medical, and hazardous
waste.
Use of nontoxic cleaning products
Remodeling of our antepartum and postpartum units using
sustainable and environmentally friendly materials.
Purchase of new indoor air quality meter
Instituted paperless meetings
Rooftop Garden!!!
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Mapping Mortality
October 28
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Don Hopey and David Templeton,
journalists for the Pittsburgh PostGazette will talk about Mapping
Mortality, their 6-part investigative
series of the effects that
environmental pollution has on the
people of Southwestern PA.
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Pollution, Death Overlap
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Donora’s Smog Tragedy
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Gracie’s Story
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The Smoking Factor
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Power Plant Violations
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Cluster of Illness, Death
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Dangerous Dust
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Scientific Evidence
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Food, Inc. Film Screening
November
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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing
the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with
the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food
supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of
consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own
environment. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an
epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
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Goods for Guns
December
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SPSR will be volunteering at
the Goods for Guns gun buy
back day, where we will hand
out Grocery Store gift
certificates to people who have
turned in guns.
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Hang out with police officers
while they tell you crazy
stories!
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UPMC Green Team
January
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Allison Robinson will present the UPMC Green Team
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UPMC Green Team, comprised of a representative body of hospital staff, sets
goals, reviews, and measures our greening initiatives in coordination with UPMC’s
systemwide Green Team. We are buying, building, and greening our operations
from supply chain to waste management.
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Get involved now by attending monthly UPMC Green Team meetings at
Presbyterian and Shadyside – next one is September 20
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Upcoming Events:
 Zero Waste Pittsburgh, noon, September 13 @ BST123
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http://www.zerowastepgh.org/
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Household Chemical Waste Collection, Pharmaceutical Collection, Hard to Recycle Collection
Vendors explain their Recycling Services, 10/5/11, 11am-1pm, Scaife 11th fl
Drug Take Back Day, 10/28/11, Falk & Hillman Pharmacies
Bike Friendly Employer Proposal
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In continued advancement of the alternative transportation initiative, development of additional
resources and recognition, survey will be reviewed at next PUH-SHY Green Team meeting
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UPMC Green Team
Presby Shadyside Lunch & Learn with Dave Mazza of the PRC on “Zero Waste Pittsburgh”- Sept 13th
 Registration is required by 9/8/11 so that we know how many attending for the catering order
 Event date: 9/13/11, time: 12-1pm, location Biomedical Science Tower South Rm 123
 Contact me to register
Green Team volunteers needed for Recycling Lunch & Learns at Presby and Shadyside
 Vendors coming to casually explain their recycling services provided
 Volunteers may help promote attendance, promote PUH-SHY Green Team initiatives, and actually visit
the tables
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 SHY: 9/14/11, 11am-1pm, Cafeteria or West Wing café (tbd)
 PUH: 10/5/11, 11am-1pm, 11th Fl Cafeteria foyer
 Contact Wm Smith, if interested
Green Team volunteers needed for Presby Shadyside Drug Take Back Day – Oct. 28th
 National Drug Take Back Day is 10/29/11
 UPMC PUH-SHY will have a similar collection on 10/28/11 at its two retail pharmacies (Falk and
Hillman)
 Plans are currently under development
 PUH-SHY Green Team may develop a flyer and pamphlet detailing publicly significant initiatives
and distribute ata table
Presby Shadyside “Bike Friendly Employer” proposal
 In continued advancement of the alternative transportation initiative, development of additional
resources and recognition, survey will be reviewed at next PUH-SHY Green Team meeting
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Dr. Noe Woods-Copley Lunch Talk
February 2012
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The Ecological Footprint of Magee Women’s Hospital:
A Trashy Talk
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What is the Environmental Impact of Healthcare?
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How much trash do we make?
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Where does it go?
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Is it necessary?
Noe Copley-Woods, MD
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Assistant Professor of ObGyn
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Magee Women’s Hospital
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Panel on Preventative Medicine
March
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5 speakers will each present an idea for improving preventative
medicine within the framework of healthcare reform
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Discussion to follow
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http://www.noharm.org
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http://www.acmp.org
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Complete Streets
April
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The streets of our cities and towns are an
important part of the livability of our
communities. They ought to be for
everyone, whether young or old, motorist
or bicyclist, walker or wheelchair user,
bus rider or shopkeeper. But too many of
our streets are designed only for
speeding cars, or worse, creeping traffic
jams.
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Now, in communities across the country,
a movement is growing to complete the
streets. States, cities and towns are
asking their planners and engineers to
build road networks that are safer, more
livable, and welcoming to everyone.
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Instituting a complete streets policy
ensures that transportation planners and
engineers consistently design and
operate the entire roadway with all
users in mind - including bicyclists,
public transportation vehicles and
riders, and pedestrians of all ages and
abilities.
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http://www.completestreets.org
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May
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Founded in 1974 by Ellen Berliner and Anne Steytler, Women's Center &
Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh (WC&S) was one of the first six shelters in the
United States for battered women. Since that time, WC&S has been at the
forefront of the Battered Women's Movement, creating and implementing
innovative and effective programming aimed at preventing domestic
violence and providing services to domestic violence victims.
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What do you want to do?
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Join the SPSR Steering Committee
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Join the UMPC Green Team
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Greening the medical school!
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Increase awareness and access to healthy food
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Create interdisciplinary connections with the
Public Health School
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Learn about our collective ecological footprint
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Experiment in how to reduce healthcare waste
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Educate medical students and others
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Additional Events?
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2012 Sustainable Healthcare Innovation Competition will
occur between January 2012- March 2012
Previous Talk “What is the most neglected issue in the U.S.
or world, and what will YOU do as a physician to address
this?”s
Previous Earth Day Talks – organize one for this year?
 Longterm Effects of Childhood Lead Poisoning
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Medicine and the Environment: First Do No Harm
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Dr. Herb Needleman, Prof. of Child Psychiatry & Pediatrics
Dr. Noe Woods, Asst Prof of Gynecologic Specialities
Global Climate Change and Public Health
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Dr. Bernstein
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Contact Info
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Daniel Van Roekel, vanroekel.daniel@medstudent.pitt.edu
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Questions? Comments?
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Please sign-in – SPSR needs it for SEC reimbursement.
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Thanks for coming!