Join the Green Team ERG on April 5 at noon
In celebration of Earth Day April 22, the Green Team ERG will be hosting a variety events all month, including webinars, plant giveaways, and a cooking demo. Become a member via this link to receive our newsletter with more details.
To start Earth Month, join the Green Team from noon to 1 p.m. April 5 for a webinar with Vidya Raman, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP, on sustainability in the operating room.
Some topics that will be covered:
– Sustainability as whole
– Health care contribution and perioperative operating room impact
– Anesthesia and surgery carbon footprint
– What we are doing at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
– Future plans at the Wexner Medical Center
Dr. Raman is a clinical professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She has held a faculty appointment since 2007 and transitioned her clinical practice from Nationwide Children’s Hospital to the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center in 2022. She’s completed training in pediatrics, anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesia. Her research interests center around perioperative sustainability. She has given many national talks, podcasts and papers on the topic and hopes to make an impact on climate action through her work on perioperative sustainability. She has not only helped with decreasing Ohio State’s operating room carbon footprint, but also cost containment. Her work has saved over $100,000 in in 2023. She looks forward to making more of an impact and moving clinical engagement of sustainability beyond the perioperative spaces into other clinical areas.
Register for the webinar here.
Can’t make the webinar? A recording will be sent out to registrants and posted on this site.
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— By Judy Gregory