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We'll begin the topic for Friday, November 18th at CEMTF 3RD Virtual Summit Series: Climate & Public Health, join us to hear from Janice Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. & Michael Martin, M.D.
Climate, Air Quality & Public Health
Janice Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Kirsch is a physician who has been deeply concerned about climate disruption since her Berkeley pre-med days in the 1970’s. In 1983, she joined Physicians for Social Responsibility and became a speaker on environmental issues and on the prevention of nuclear war.
She attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and trained in Internal Medicine as well as Occupational and Environmental Medicine at that institution. She completed advanced training in Oncology and Hematology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research experience has been in the occupational and environmental causation of cancer and leukemia.
Michael Martin, MD, MPH, MBA
Dr. Martin is an Associate Clinical Professor in UCSF’s Department of
Epidemiology & Biostatistics. His medical research has focused on preventive medicine issues such as the relationship of cholesterol levels to heart disease, the effects of passive smoking on heart disease, the cost of firearm injuries, sunlight’s aging effects on the skin, and the excessive use of antibiotics in animal agriculture.
Dr. Martin teaches at UCSF and, for more than 30 years, he saw patients in the General Medicine Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, an affiliate of UCSF.
Dr. Martin is President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). He also chairs the national office’s Environment & Health (E&H) Committee. He serves on the board of the San Francisco Bay PSR chapter.
Dr. Martin is the Founder & President of Physicians Against Red Meat (PhARM), a nonprofit dedicated to reducing red meat consumption for health and environmental reasons.
Dr. Martin completed his medical training at the University of Chicago, his
Internal Medicine Residency at Yale, and his Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship at
the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He also received both an
MBA and MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.
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