Reed A. Omary, MD, MS, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
“We are doing a ton and we are trying to work as fast as we can to address this critical climate crisis and I think the first thing that we need to do in healthcare is realize that this is an issue that affects all of us when we realize that climate care is health care we start recognizing that its part of who we are.”
Dr. Consuelo Wilkins, Senior Vice President and Senior Associate
Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence, and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
“I think it’s important to acknowledge and recognize the historical and ongoing role
of science and medicine and really creating systems of inequities and oppression and think about how we can embed some approaches to address these in our research making sure that our clinical role [and] research is scientifically just and inclusive.”
Dr. Ayesha Khan, former microbiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
“My research focuses on decolonizing medicine & science by deploying them as tools thru a political abolitionist framework to understand neurodiversity/ biodiversity, collectivist trauma healing strategies & anarchist praxis— all as pathways to liberation.”
Reed A. Omary, MD, MS, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
“We are doing a ton and we are trying to work as fast as we can to address this critical climate crisis and I think the first thing that we need to do in healthcare is realize that this is an issue that affects all of us when we realize that climate care is health care we start recognizing that its part of who we are.”
Dr. Consuelo Wilkins, Senior Vice President and Senior Associate
Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence, and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
“I think it’s important to acknowledge and recognize the historical and ongoing role
of science and medicine and really creating systems of inequities and oppression and think about how we can embed some approaches to address these in our research making sure that our clinical role [and] research is scientifically just and inclusive.”
