Quantifying, modelling, and optimizing Energy & Water use for Stanford Health Care and patients with cancer

This project focuses on water sustainability in healthcare to evaluate water use and efficiency to find areas to reduce water waste. The data that will result from this project will serve as an essential baseline for which future projects may use as a comparison.

The team will track individual radiation oncology treatment machine water usage and identify areas of potential improvement and compare water use among treatment machines.

Establish baseline water use metrics for radiation oncology equipment

Sadaat Khan
Energy Engineer
Sustainability Program Office (Project Advisor)

Rachel L. Gibson, JD, MPP
Sustainability Consultant Stanford Health Care

Claire Baniel, MD.
Resident Physician
Department of Radiation Oncology

Robert Retana
Director of Facilities Management
Stanford Healthcare

Casey Collins
Plumbing Engineer
Stanford Healthcare

Hilary Bagshaw, MD.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology

Lawrie Skinner, PhD.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Radiation Physics Department of Radiation Oncology

Padojino Resty
Assistant Chief Electrical Engineer
Stanford Healthcare

Keith McClain
Director of Radiation Therapy Operations
Department of Radiation Oncology

2021 Conquer Cancer Merit Award – ASCO Quality Care Symposium

2021 American Association for Cancer Research Scholar-In-Training Award

2021 Cures Within Reach Repurposing Research Grant Award

2022 Tobacco Related Disease Research Program Research Grant Award

2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Journals Editorial Fellowship 2022 Stanford Cancer Institute – Cancer Innovation Award

2022 Stanford Health Care Sustainability Grant Award