Event Details
An Integrative Approach to Patient Care in the Face of Climate Change
Wynne Armand, MD
Associate Director, Mass General Center for the Environment and Health
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Barbara Walker, PhD
Integrative Health and Performance Psychologist, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025*
Time: 8:00 – 9:00 am ET
Online via Zoom
Cost: Free. CME credit available. Please email your name, degree title and institution if applicable to [email protected] during the event to claim credit.
Description:
This presentation will examine the impact of climate change on health through patient cases, providing a framework for assessing climate-related health risks and discussing integrative approaches to care. It will also explore how environmental factors influence integrative medicine, including the role of nature-based therapies in supporting patient well-being, focusing on adapting these strategies for low-income communities and urban areas with limited access to green spaces.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Wynne Armand practices primary care at the MGH Chelsea Healthcare Center. She is a Distinguished Physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at MGH, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, affiliated faculty at Harvard Chan Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), and contributing editor at Harvard Health Publications. Dr. Armand co-directs Primary Care Office Insite (PCOI), a resource hub available to clinical teams and patients, focused on education and the optimization of primary care delivery across Mass General Brigham. She is an Associate Director at the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health, whose mission is to integrate sustainability into hospital operations, education, and research, and to advocate for policies that support a healthy environment for everyone.
Dr. Barbara Walker provides consultations to patients to facilitate their optimal effectiveness, whether for performance in sport or within their career, coping with illness or injury, and/or a desire to improve areas associated with lifestyle for overall health and well-being. She specializes in the use of biofeedback, mind-body techniques, high performance strategies, and lifestyle medicine as tools for teaching self-regulation. She is the Director of the Nature as Medicine program through the Osher Center for Integrative Health. Additionally, she teaches Sport and Positive Psychology, Nature-Based Therapies/ Ecopsychology and The Science and Practice of Mind-Body Medicine at the university.