Mentoring and Coaching Healthcare Professionals to Deliver Climate Smart Healthcare

Dr. Patel was a driving force behind the first now annual NorCal Symposium on Climate Change and Health Equity. This is a collaborative effort among Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children’s Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, UC Davis, UCSF, and Kaiser Permanente. The focus of the symposium is to educate and empower healthcare professionals to enact sustainable healthcare practices & goals at their institutions.

Dr. Patel leveraged her voice as a clinician to advocate for a carbon neutrality plan at Stanford Health Care, and she mentored student activists in their similar calls for action. She is creating structured opportunities for students who are developing careers in climate and policy. As so much of health is determined outside of clinical walls, Lisa wants to support student efforts to impact climate and health in the greater community.

Lisa has mentored students on the evaluation of laundered isolation gowns, climate and health equity studies, and the establishment of University and Regional climate action groups for medical students and health professionals.

Dr. Patel worked with Community-Academic Partnerships for Clean Air in Stockton, partnering with Little Manila Rising, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Stockton, and Fathers and Families of San Joaquin. As the Executive Director, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Lisa now represents over 7,000 clinicians on climate and health across leading medical associations.

Dr. Patel has established an annual NorCal Sustainability symposium, mentoring medical students and clinical climate leaders, building sustainability leadership across the medical profession.

Stanford University Student Leaders
Jonathan Lu
Navami Jain
Ashley Jowell
Becca Bromly-Dulfano
Natalie Baker

Faculty Leaders
Kathy Burke
Deputy Director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health

Barbara Christine Erny
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
Medicine –Pulmonary, Allery, & Critical Care Medicine

Grant from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Foundation to write a policy roadmap on achieving climate-resilient and sustainable K-12 schools in California. November 2021-November 2022.

Trudy A. Specinar Award, national honor for significant contributions by new employees to the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency (2007)

Guest Editor for Frontiers in Public Health’s special issue on Climate Change and Global Education, January 2022-present

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University

Working group member on climate and health education, August 2021-present

Harvard’s Climate, Health, and Equity Fellowship Advisory board member for fellowship, October 2021-present

Our Children’s Trust Board Member, October 2021-present

Climate Health Now Advisory board member, January 2022-present

Invited reviewer for New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, Frontiers in Public Health, Journal of Climate and Health